AIBU for wanting handsoap in the kitchen ?

[blueyavocado]

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

I do. And I use anti bac Dettol spray on my hands

Genuinely assumed the thread title was a euphemism and came here expecting a sex thing I’d never heard of.

Therefore, YABU.

Hand soap in the kitchen is essential!!

What a stupid comment, washing up liquid actually causes eczema to flare up all over my hands, it's nothing to do with 'marketing' it's a detergent and designed to clean greasy dishes not hands.

Any household without hand soap and a towel in the kitchen is a bit vile imo. I've got sensitive skin and definitely wouldn't want to use washing up liquid or have to faff about looking for the elusive hand soap in cupboards. Imagine having to get hand soap and towels ready before preparing every meal! Such a faff.

It's SLS in dish soap that somee people get irritated by but it's in everything from toothpaste to almost any liquid soap.

The only things that ever change in products like this is the concentrations, that's why ecover and the like is "better" for the environment because it has less (of mostly the same) cleaning chemicals in it per ml, much like cheap off label brands, or alternatively just use less of something more concentrated

We have a liquid soap dispenser on the windowsill next to the sink. It’s used a bit but we have a cloakroom next to the kitchen, so tend to use that.

I have a washing up liquid dispenser integrated in the worktop and use that for everything. Most hand soaps bottles are not that pretty and I admit that it would annoy me if anyone tried to introduce one in my kitchen.

I do not use liquid hand soap, it really messes up my hands, especially the anti bacterial ones. I either use a bar soap or I've found a foam hand soap that is extremely delicate and doesn't irritate. I really hate it when washing up liquid is used in place of soap. I also use gloves to wash up.

Just buy Molton Brown and enjoy it. Using washing up liquid or similar? No thanks.

Same - yet giving a nice long bath to mummified soap (AKA fulfilling its destiny) is one of my many guilty pleasures. Also hugely enjoy lathering paint off my heavy-duty rubber gloves with carbolic and very hot water. Better than sex.

OP, your MIL is clearly asserting dominance, do yourself a favour, fill a paddling pool with neat Cussons, throw down and show her who‘s boss.

yanbu. I keep hand-soap next to the sink. Dish soap dries your skin out.

It's essential! Ours is used everytime food is prepared, at least before and after. If we've run out, I use washing up liquid.

Oh my gosh soap is soap. How are people assuming no hand specific soap by a kitchen sink means no one washes their hands. Clearly they're just using dish soap instead. It's the same shit! Having hand soap by a kitchen sink is completely pointless when you have a whole bottle of dish soap there already surely?

How stupid to assume that just because it causes your eczema to flare up it would do the same to millions of other people.

Chlorinated water makes my face go red but it’s not unsuitable to swim in for millions of others.

I use washing up liquid but it does dry out your hands.

Well theres' a reason there are so many virus and cold bugs going round and round. People don't wash their hands enough/properly.

I don’t know anyone who doesn’t have hand wash beside the kitchen sink, I wash my hands a lot when cooking.

Don't come to mine then!
Replacing my liquid hand soap with bars is one small eco thing I've done.
I know you can refill plastic bottles with liquid hand soap but I bet most don't do that.

I don’t think I’ve ever had hand soap in the kitchen. No-one in my family does (their homes are spotless and standards are high) or DHs family. I assumed everyone used the washing up liquid? I will always wash my hands while prepping food and give them a good scrub with the fairy liquid. It doesn’t cause issues with our skin though some like others have said.

I'm pretty laid back when it comes to germs etc but even I wash my hands before preparing food (and after the loo.) Hand soap belongs near a kitchen sink and close to a sink near a loo.

Wow I’m shocked at people not doing this! 😳😳 I have worked in restaurants and catering all my life and wash my hands regularly when I’m in the kitchen and the thought of having hand wash tucked away somewhere so you have to touch other surfaces to get to it - or not having it at all makes me 😳😳😳😱 Hygiene people!! So horrible.

Hand wash on one side of the tap and Fairy liquid on the other side. Tea towel tucked in the cupboard door below.

Doesn't everyone have hand soap next to the kitchen sink?

Then again my MIL used to keep her Fairy Liquid under the sink and have to take it out from the cupboard every time she used it. I always thought that was madness.

I’ve used washing up liquid when we’ve run out of hand soap in the kitchen, but it always leaves my hands drier and tighter (sometimes even cracking open if I use it too much) than usual, especially in the winter. Hand soap’s a normal kitchen essential for us.

I guess your MIL doesn’t want to let go of any wee thing in her kitchen. Even if it’s just an extra bottle beside the kitchen sink.