Bathroom as guest AIBU

[serenavanderwoodsenn]

Technically I’m not a guest as I work in the home as a nanny but the family I work for only has bar soap in the bathroom for handwashing?? All of their guests (they have people every weekend) plus 2 kids and the parents use this soap. It makes me feel icky. I don’t feel clean at all as it feels like everyone else’s germs are festering on it. I always end up grabbing the Sanex off the side of the bath or trying not to touch anything and washing my hands with fairy liquid when I get downstairs.

AIBU to think bar soap is ok for personal use but as a communal soap it’s a bit grim?

Bar soap kills more bacteria than its' liquid cousin.

No, we don't.

Just buy your own liquid soap
Job done

germaphobe and working with small children
PMSL

It's fine, I have bar soap in my bathroom because it's so much better for the planet than all those plastic bottles. Better for your hands too

How on earth do you deal with shitty nappies, OP? Snotty noses? Food rubbed into hair?

YABU OP - bacteria and viruses won't survive or multiply on a bar of soap and you are literally in the process of washing your hands when you touch the soap anyway. Surgeons use bar soap to wash before performing an operation. Bar soap is much better for the environment and also cleans the skin better without leaving a slippery residue.

But, if you feel that strongly, just buy yourself a bottle of liquid soap and keep it in the bathroom.

Agreed, the pump of a liquid soap is far more unhygienic! I wonder if anyone ever cleans the pump.

I think a lot of people genuinely don't know how to properly wash their hands.
I didn't as a child. It wasn't until I started working in care that I learned.

Buy those small bottles of shower gel that people take on holiday as use those when you're at work if it bothers you that much.

Me too. So I rinse the soap under the tap before using it. Crazy, I know!

For hundreds of years too...

How are we not all dead?

but you work there and can bring the things you’d like to use in the workplace.

Bar soap is the least germy thing you can use as it gets washed every time. Liquid soap dispensers on the other hand... think about it

Don’t like it either. Not sure how true it is that there’s zero bacteria on it, but I haven’t done the research.
personally I’d also use the fairy liquid!

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It's soap!

It doesn't really matter if the pump is germy, because you're literally touching it a moment before WASHING YOUR HANDS.

In addition, hand sanitiser can dry out your hands and isn’t going to remove anything dirty, like faeces, just move it around. It’s fine in an emergency but I wouldn’t use it on a regular basis again. Just buy a pump dispenser and tell your employers you prefer using that. I can’t imagine they would object.

This seems to be a new worry..I saw a tiktok video about soap today and how 'ick' it was..and did people leave soap uncovered in the bathroom. What?! We always have a bar of soap by the sink..and liquid soap. I would never think about or worry about a soap being left out or about germs on it.

TikTok is a bizarre other world, where women get down on their hands and knees, scrub already clean floors, then steam them, and then give a good mop for good measure.

Probably the same women that pour blueberries from the see through box they come in, into another see through box ... Both the blueberries and the second box have been cleaned within an inch of their lives. They'll soak the berries in vinegar and baking soda/"fruit wash", then rinse with water, and then hand scrub the second container, to transfer the sterile blueberries into (after putting them on a piece of non-sterile kitchen paper 🤣)

They must have nothing better to do 🤷‍♀️

Yes!! Everyone seems obsessed with cleaning!! I am not..I do what needs doing but good god, I don't have time to do.as they do.
The woman today used this soap brand as loved it but then the comments start re how 'ick' soap.is...and she had to say used a something or other cloth to apply soap and that then had to be washed and the soap.was then packed.away into a bag as people don't like stuff left out in the bathroom?!

@serenavanderwoodsenn why haven’t you bought your own liquid soap?

Why doesn't it make sense to use bar soap???

I was just wondering the same thing. It makes complete sense to me.