To not want watered down hand soap!

[OnceuponaRainbow18]

Please solve an on going domestic disagreement.

My OH waters down hand soap when it comes to the end to make it last longer, I think this is ming and think he should just open a new one… he disagrees!

YABU- it’s fine to water down hand soap
YANBU- it’s ming to water down hand soap!

I water mine down. Dh hates it

The worst thing is it squirts out too far and misses your hand anyway. Totally pointless watering down...

My DH does this even though there is always a spare bottle in the bathroom. Makes me feel murderous!

Use a bar! Less plastic

Get a new one out!!! Watery soap just splashed everywhere 😂

I do the same, why waste it?

Annoys me too. My mother does this when the bottle is 1/4 full.
All that happens is when you pump the watery liquid goes everywhere, drips on the worktop, infuriates me. I have asked her about it but she denies doing it.

My DH does this! As pp have said, when you're not expecting it it goes bloody everywhere. Also if I'm cooking and have just handled raw meat it's quite infuriating to be surprised by a jet of mildly foamy water.

My DH does this too and it enrages me! YANBU

Can he not open the new one and prop the old one up above it so it drips in the new bottle? That's what I do. I cba to water down soap

If it were OK to water down hand soap, you would be able to buy bottles of pre-watered down soap at lower prices.

If it were OK, he would keep spare dispenser around and always mix all newly bough soap with water before using it.

The third reason it makes no sense to water down soap is that if you want to use less soap per hand-cleaning, you can just dispense less. Watering it down doesn't achieve anything. In fact it may be wasteful, as the watery soap won't stick to your hands, so you may use up more actual soap because you need to dispense extra squirts to compensate for half of each squirt falling out of your hands before you can use them.

@MegaClutterSlut

I’ll suggest this… but it’s slightly more effort so not sure he’ll do it 🤯

I think if the soap was meant to be that liquidy surely that’s how they would make it… is it even less effective at cleaning watered down?

Greenrubber

Use a bar! Less plastic

Agree.

I do the same

@RandomLondoner

If it were OK to water down hand soap, you would be able to buy bottles of pre-watered down soap at lower prices.

If it were OK, he would keep spare dispenser around and always mix all newly bough soap with water before using it.

The third reason it makes no sense to water down soap is that if you want to use less soap per hand-cleaning, you can just dispense less. Watering it down doesn't achieve anything. In fact it may be wasteful, as the watery soap won't stick to your hands, so you may use up more actual soap because you need to dispense extra squirts to compensate for half of each squirt falling out of your hands before you can use them.

I have a pamper chef soap pump that makes a foam with watered down liquid soap

I have a weird thing against soap bars 😬

I water it down to get the last drop.

DH does this if the magical hand-wash fairy (me) hasn't automatically replaced it. When I show him where the new bottle is, he goes 'no need there's loads left in this one' - er no mate, that's basically water now. This is a man who goes into the recycling to retrieve things I've chucked that he thinks will be useful though, so I can't expect different really.

I put water in the last bit but then use it to clean the sink

@MegaClutterSlut

Can he not open the new one and prop the old one up above it so it drips in the new bottle? That's what I do. I cba to water down soap

I do that too

I water it down. Well actually it just means I don’t put that splash of water on at the start to froth it up.

Er, you do know that you immediately mix it with...water?

Nothing wrong with not wasting the last of the hand soap by diluting it. Very wasteful not to.

Pour the last bits of every soap into one bottle each time so you make a nice rainbow stripey soap?

I'd hate that, but you don't need a "new" one, just refill?

The problem with watering it down, would this not lead to a reduced concentration of the effectiveness of the hand wash ?