To f*cking HATE the 'no touch' soap dispenser product that they are constantly advertising at the moment?

[GreenGenie]

Your hands are dirty...then you touch your soap dispenser. Did you know your soap dispenser is covered in hundreds of bacteria ? (implication... that could destroy your health/children's health etc) - use our no touch dispenser or you don't really love your family.

So let me get this straight, in my house it goes like this:

1. hands get dirty
2. touch soap dispenser (with dirty hands)
3. wash hands
4. dry hands

Why would you be touching the soap dispenser unless you were about to wash your hands anyway?
Just another wretched product to make us paranoid about the filth that lurks, ready to strike at any time,in any corner of our homes. Isn't there enough of this crap on the market already? Obviously I won't be buying one but no doubt many already paranoid people will. What a waste of money.

I'm waiting for the dettox ad saying: human beings are germ ridden: spray yourself inside and out with dettox every 10 minutes, otherwise you ARE A BAD MOTHER AND A DISGUSTING PERSON

Rotting dog food is more hygenic that you, you stupid weasels!

(Sorry but to me, all dettox ads have this subtext)

Correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't some germs good for us, in that we need something to help build up an immune system?

It sometimes feels that we're in danger of needing the chemical hazard suit in the future, due to having everything anti- bacterial and us evolving to have no immunity!

Fairy - you are correct - but according to advertisers the only good bacteria are the ones that come in little bottles that cost a pound a pop

I have seen a brilliant link on here about the difference between advertising to men and women: do take a look, it's very funny

Portia - I love that

Oh yes, the friendly bacteria!

when i first saw the ad, i somewhat wryly thought, 'oops, another thing i forgot to worry about - oh well'

it's like that one that says how many bacteria live on your child's high chair, and make out that toilet seats are healthier. seriously i'm sure it's the type of bacteria that matters. if they think toilets are so healthy, they can go & eat in there, i'm sticking to the kitchen, thank you.

I agree, especially with Rhian82. I hate all the Dettol adverts. They truly make me cross (I know it is probably misplaced anger, but even so..)

In particular, though, the ones where the mum sprays the ball after a child sneezes near it, and when she wipes the bannister rail after a child has sneezed.

Oh and the one with the baby and the raw chicken drumstick - WTF?

I am so glad I am not the only one who glowers at the tv every time this ad is shown! The next thing will be a special dettol spray for disinfecting soap dispensers - it will come in wipes too, I expect.

Mind you - I have just been and decontaminated cleaned and tidied ds2's room - usually I just look round the doors and threaten no pocket money until the boys do their own tidying, but dMIL is coming to stay this weekend, and the NBC suit is too big to go in her suitcase - so I thought I'd better do ds2's room for her!

Have you not heard...?

WE'RE ALL ON THE VERGE OF INSTANT DEATH IF DETTOL DOESN'T SAVE US!

These new ads are particularly stupid...

YANBU this ad is clearly aimed at idiots

YADNU

Well I quite like the normal Dettol Handwash, the orange kitchen one.

But now I know it is germy, I will swap it for a bar of coal tar soap with a little magnet in it to clip it to the wall - remember those??

FFS. Next there will be a tray to sanitise your shoes in the style of farms with foot and mouth.

A special screen to stop bacteris invading the fridge when you open the door.

And why do we need practically sterile clothes? I wash shitty nappies with normal powder and don't have sleepless nights about it

I didn't think of it like that. Since watching that bloody advert I have been washing the top of the sodding soap dispenser when I wash my hands

I shall find something else to worry about now

Being 'germ free' is actually very bad for your health. A safe level of background bacteria builds up the immune system and is good for us.

My husband still uses bars of soap to wash his hands! Wot a minger eh!

and my chickens come into the lounge and crap on the carpet!

I give the soap dispenser a wipe round when I clean the Bathrooms, I buy the refills so the actual dispenser is about a year old.
I wont be rushing out to get one of these now no touch ones, and I have OCD so I should be first in line to get one no?

Hurrah, someone else who listens to AIOTM (aiotm)!

Couldn't agree more.

The only time I take extra precautions is when I have been touching raw meat.

I use a paper towel to turn on teh taps (old, non-mixer, council house taps) and get soap on my hands, then throw away the paper towel.

As for the poo in your washing machine advert, man, don't people realise it's a good idea to clean your machine not because of poo but because of soap buildup?

1 cycle of 60 degrees with 200mL of bleach.

Or you could do 1 cup of washing soda on 60degrees and then 1 cup of white vinegar on 60.

Once a month.

To preserve the life of your machine.

Agreed there - we use a cleaner thing every month or so because most of our washing is at 40 and we get lots of soap buildup otherwise.

Do you put the bleach where the powder normally goes or in the drum? I have never done this

Yanbu.
DD was terrified to touch our 'filthy, covered-in-germs' soap dispenser when she first saw that advert.

Took us ages to convince her to use our normal one again.

Advertisers just don't think, do they?

Don't you lot lick your soap dispenser for kicks? No? Just me then?

I'm an ad man's nightmare anyway. I forget adverts instantly. Even ones I like. There used to be a great one with basketball in it. No idea what it advertised. A drink? Possibly.

I haven't seen the ad and I'm not at all paranoid about germs, but my sis has one of these and it is ace. When your hands are really muddy, or you've been handling raw or bloody meat, or making pastry, for example, you don't have to go back and wipe the dispenser afterwards.

yanbu

Stop bein g so frightened of germs, peoples

YANBU - toilet spary germs are EVERYWHERE.....yuk!