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RE: No touch soap dispensers - 9/19/2011 9:23:07 AM

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My favourite part of the public restroom experience is that you come to that awkward moment where after washing your hands you have to touch that door handle again.

then you do like the girls at my work do....paper towel to grab the door handle, come in and immediately sanitize your hand with hand sanitizer lotion.

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RE: No touch soap dispensers - 9/19/2011 9:30:30 AM

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RE: No touch soap dispensers - 9/19/2011 10:11:31 AM

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Maybe its just me lol but i just am not seeing the logic of paying for such a system as you are washing your hands anyway.
I agree. Somehow I managed to survive sharing a bar of soap with 4 siblings. I think the whole sanitizer craze is just hype, unless of course there were no germs hanging about back when I was growing up.

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RE: No touch soap dispensers - 9/19/2011 12:56:39 PM

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I'm old enough that I remember how we avoided illnesses. We got exposed to germs & our immune system took over. When my daughter was a baby, I would take her to the park & let her crawl all over the ground & let her touch anything she wanted. The first time she got sick was after we moved to a different part of the state, when she was 6 years old. She got really sick!! Since she'd never been sick before, it scared the livin' crap out of me & her!!

I don't use the anti-bacterial soaps. I don't even use the anti-bacterial ointments unless there's actually a sign of an infection. I rarely, rarely get sick. I have a most wonderful immune system. And I believe it's because I've exposed it to all sorts of germs. The other day, I came down with a sore throat & felt feverish & achy. I'd been with a friend whose daughter had a bad cold that had lasted over a week. It lasted less than 24 hours for me.

I used to work with a bunch of other women & the flu & other viruses would run through the staff. They'd be calling in sick for days & come back still sick. I'd cover extra shifts & then I might feel a little tired & "off" one day. I'd realize that was my version of whatever everyone else was sick with for days.

There are some studies that link our germ phobias to these severe allergies that so many kids have today. When I was growing up, I'd never even heard of anyone being allergic to peanuts. And actually, there were very few people who had any kind of allergy at all. Now I hardly meet anyone who doesn't have some sort of allergy. I have none, except that Demerol once gave me hives.

I'm even apparently immune to e. coli. I eat my hamburgers rare & never get sick from them. If one isn't exposed to bacteria, one will never become immune to them. That's what our bodies were designed to do. And now we've decided that's not effective & it's creating more problems than it's fixing.

If it works, don't fix it!!

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RE: No touch soap dispensers - 9/20/2011 9:56:01 AM

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There are some studies that link our germ phobias to these severe allergies that so many kids have today. When I was growing up, I'd never even heard of anyone being allergic to peanuts. And actually, there were very few people who had any kind of allergy at all. Now I hardly meet anyone who doesn't have some sort of allergy. I have none, except that Demerol once gave me hives.

If it works, don't fix it!!

This is interesting. I've mentioned many times in here that I'm a medical lab rat by trade, so I've studied and worked in the field of immunology, among many other things. Your statement makes me wonder if there's (in simple terms) antibodies waiting to get out there and do their jobs, attack something, rid the body of something, but since the environment is so free of bacteria, etc. the antibodies-in-waiting attack harmless things like peanuts. Since allergic reactions are simply overzealous antibodies trying to do their job....maybe there's something to that. Worth pondering.....

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RE: No touch soap dispensers - 9/20/2011 2:13:59 PM

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I just let my kids eat all the dirt they want and roll around in a cow pasture. It seems to work because they dont get sick very much. We have bar soap. Its usually covered in dirty handprints, but it still manages to get the job done.

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RE: No touch soap dispensers - 9/20/2011 2:30:37 PM

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ugh. I can't even look at bar soap after it's been used. It just looks so very gross to me. I like liquid soap pumps that I can keep clean. I usually clean the hand pump here at home while I'm washing my hands so it's not all drippy, gooey.

Then again I don't like anything that looks messy. <confessed neat freak>.

I thought I was going to lose my mind when I had a young one still living at home. lol. As much as I love her I'm so very glad she has her own place now lol.

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RE: No touch soap dispensers - 9/20/2011 3:15:54 PM

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We have the soap in pumps at our house. If it was me we would probably still be using bars, but she likes the scents of the pumps.

But will someone explain to me why she gets so upset with me for drying my hands on the seat of my jeans...

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RE: No touch soap dispensers - 9/20/2011 4:50:04 PM

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because your jeans are dirty or you are making your jeans dirty and then when you go to sit on something you transfer that dirt to the furniture and/or your clothes now smell, are wet and musty smelling. it's just gross. Use a towel.

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RE: No touch soap dispensers - 9/20/2011 11:00:02 PM

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ugh. I can't even look at bar soap after it's been used. It just looks so very gross to me. I like liquid soap pumps that I can keep clean. I usually clean the hand pump here at home while I'm washing my hands so it's not all drippy, gooey.

Same here, both with gross gooey bar soaps and cleaning the soap pumps while washing it. I don't like messy.

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RE: No touch soap dispensers - 9/21/2011 9:58:36 AM

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I am the only female in a house full of boys. If I started going crazy every time something was messy or had finger prints on it, Id be strapped in a rubber room inside a straight jacket by now...

..hey, thats an idea!

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RE: No touch soap dispensers - 9/21/2011 10:09:04 AM

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I agree with Linnea.. (and for the record, so does my Mom)

I dnt like the look of ooey gooey bar soaps either, and if I could get pump soaps in NON-antibacterial, bet yer ass I would. In the meantime, my household is fairly equally divided between the ugly bars and the germkiller crap (usually.. sometimes, it leans heavily one way or the other depending on which runs out sooner.. and THAT is simply a matter of which sink I use more often on any given week)

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