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The Dettol No-Touch dispenser is a great bit of kit and looks like a bargain when you place it in the shopping trolley for the reasonable price of £5 for the unit and refill.Alas like most bargains such as printers etc the devils in the detail just how much is the refill going to cost.
If you are not familiar with the Dettol No-Touch it is a battery operated hand wash dispenser you place your hands under the sensor and a portion of hand wash is magically placed in your hand .The advantage of it being non touch is the fact you cant get cross contamination.
If you are not familiar with the Dettol No-Touch it is a battery operated hand wash dispenser you place your hands under the sensor and a portion of hand wash is magically placed in your hand .The advantage of it being non touch is the fact you cant get cross contamination.
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Well as it turns out just like printers they want to start you off cheap with a lost leader and get you into their Eco system buying a new refill regularly.Well as it turns out the refills run at about £3-3.50 which for 250ml is pretty expensive.If you live in a busy family home or small business you could be buying one of these fortnightly or even once a week, if you do the maths that's £182 a year worst case.
I never intended to buy the refills because.....
"if something comes out it generally means it can be put back in !"
You can buy 750ml of good quality branded anti bacterial hand wash from the pound shop for guess what yes that right £1 that's 3 refills !
Now we just have to get the stuff in ......
First of all we are going to need a bung for the top because as we are going to drill a hole in the top of the empty refill.Measure the bung i found one with a slight taper so it wouldn't fall into the refill if inserted too far.
I never intended to buy the refills because.....
"if something comes out it generally means it can be put back in !"
You can buy 750ml of good quality branded anti bacterial hand wash from the pound shop for guess what yes that right £1 that's 3 refills !
Now we just have to get the stuff in ......
First of all we are going to need a bung for the top because as we are going to drill a hole in the top of the empty refill.Measure the bung i found one with a slight taper so it wouldn't fall into the refill if inserted too far.
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Why does it matter if there are some germs on a soap dispenser when the first thing we do after touching it is wash our hands? We don't touch it again after washing our hands do we?
We have been doing just fine for decades with normal hand dispensers and soap - so what changed recently which makes us need hands free soap dispensers in the home?!
Costly for us and the environment!!
A wet bar of soap ends up looking pretty gross, i prefer all the touch-less devices we have nowadays.
And you remember that comedian who came from a household of seven plus in the days of old. He said you knew that if you were last in the shower, seven other people washed out their " guess " before you got your hands on it . I prefer the untouched by butt version myself