AIBU for wanting handsoap in the kitchen ?

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We live with our in laws at the moment and there has never been hand soap in the kitchen. I got some at the weekend as the closest place to wash hands with soap is the bathroom.

Anyway, MIL keeps putting it away from next to the sink. I'm not going to put it out again next to the kitchen sink as it's her house. But I feel like having handsoap when preparing food is important

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Yea essential! Constantly washing hands in kitchen before starting to cook, it I get raw meat on hands etc. How odd!

Essential together with a hand towel.

Totally agree, desperately harsh on skin and also far too viscous...needs lots of rinsing to wash it all off.

I have handwash next to the fairy liquid but hardly ever use the handwash. I find it too fragrant in the kitchen.
Every couple of weeks or so, I was my face and hair with fairy liquid. So satisfying!
I also wash my face with handwash, must have asbestos skin.

I'm guessing most people have dispensers for those asking about holding the bottle with dirty hands.

Put it under the sink OP, her house, her rules.

I have hand wash by the sink and a few tea towels on the go for different needs and they all get hot washed daily.

We’ve always had one in the kitchen. I’m constantly washing my hands in there, times like after working with raw meat, before starting to cook, when I come in from being out, after I’ve set the fire up etc. I can’t imagine not having hand soap there. It actually goes down a lot faster than the bathroom one because it’s used so much more than the bathroom is used. My ex friend never had hand soap in the kitchen and just always used fairy liquid to wash her hands.

But then you'd have to open the cupboard and also touch the soap dispenser with dirty hands.

What if you've been doing gardening? Painting? Cutting raw chicken?

Only got this far, but I remember a liquid soap advert from decades ago when they were a new thing: a daughter was showing her disapproving mother the liquid soap in her kitchen & kept saying in a Northern accent, "See Mum? No more gungy mess!" - the gungy mess being what you got with bar soaps.

Can anyone explain this one? A friend never has a hand towel in her cloakroom. Everything else is there, including soap, so she's obviously expecting people to wash their hands, but I've never, ever seen a towel in there. She's a much better housekeeper than me, & I'd never be so rude as to point out a failing, but WTF?

We have levers on all our taps so if your hands are really dirty you don't have to touch them. For soap I like Molton Brown Vintage with elderflower in the kitchen as it's not too scented, I buy it in the Black Friday sale as it's a lot cheaper.

In the dish washer.

If there is no soap I use the washing up liquid - good enough to eat off, good enough for hands. It is harsh though. Just make a point of washing your hands with the hand soap when she is in the kitchen and make a big fuss of getting it out, she may just say oh you can leave it out. My view is if its a working kitchen then leave out for self and visitors BUT I do know some people are a bit anal about tidy work surfaces. But you are living in her home that can make it tricky. A less passive aggressive way would just be to ask her, maybe ask if you get a "naice" soap dispenser or something, if its OK to leave it out to save having to handle cupboard doors when hands chickeny or something

Those that use washing up liquid instead…

like why?!

why not just get a bottle of soap? Kinder to your skin and cheaper.

Because I don't have sensitive skin and it's just another thing to buy. After nearly 50 years of doing it I assume I'd have noticed by now if it was going to be a problem

When using washing up liquid, I don't use it like soap because its not. What I do do is, put a tiny amount on my hands, enough to create some bubbles and then wash it off.
Surely it's common sense. If you know the viscosity, then you adjust the amount needed.
I don't use antibacterial soap because it's harsh on my hands.

Even if you managed to get the water hot enough to kill germs it would have lost heat by the next time you went back to it. You are supposed to wash hands under running water.