# I love that foamy hand soap! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 27, 2005, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-that-foamy-hand-soap/301348 "2005-04-27T12:47:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cab0a1/32.png) [@Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Man_With_a_Cat)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2005, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-that-foamy-hand-soap/301348/1 "2005-04-27T12:47:09Z")
Ok, it’s not really a new phenomenon, but I really love that foamy hand soap. I think the first place I really NOTICED it was at a TGI Fridays. There, it came out of the rocket ship looking dispenser, was sort of a blue color, and had a nice pleasing scent. NOW, you can buy the special dispenser and soap for use at home! And a secret I discovered by accident - I refilled my foamy dispenser with regular non-foamy specified hand soap, and it makes foam! So, no real need to spend the extra $$ to get the foaminess I love. There’s just something extra pleasing about getting a dollop of soap that’s not runny, or that looks like dish soap. I’ts foam! It comes out in a little perfectly measured portion and stays right there where you put it until you start rubbing it all over your hands. I know someone’s going to tell me how simple this is to do, and that it really doesn’t make the soap more effective, or isn’t a more efficient delivery system. But you know what? I don’t care! I love that it’s foamy. 'Scuse me, I’m off to was my hands… ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2005, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-that-foamy-hand-soap/301348/2 "2005-04-27T12:56:08Z")
Sometimes, it’s the simple things like foamy hand soap that are little rays of sunshine in our lives. Enjoy your foamy cleanliness! ---
**Author:** ![WolfpackJeep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpackjeep/32/2921_2.png) [@WolfpackJeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WolfpackJeep)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2005, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-that-foamy-hand-soap/301348/3 "2005-04-27T14:15:36Z")
I like it most of the time - the fluffy texture is great - but sometimes it just isn’t strong enough. I had oil on my hands after a lab one day, so I went to the ladies’ room to wash up and found that they had installed dispensers filled with foamy soap. It didn’t work at all. I did find out from some classmates that the men’s room still had a dispenser with real soap. ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2005, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-that-foamy-hand-soap/301348/4 "2005-04-27T14:35:26Z")
I love foamy soap too! And it’s so much easier to get little ones to wash their hands well when the soap is pre-sudsed. I haven’t gotten a foamy dispenser for home because I didn’t want to pay more for foamy soap - now that I know my stuff will work in it, I’m off to Target! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![UrbanChic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/9dc877/32.png) [@UrbanChic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UrbanChic)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2005, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-that-foamy-hand-soap/301348/5 "2005-04-27T14:55:41Z")
I was introduced to foamy soap when my son was in the NICU–it’s what they use there. I didn’t know I could enjoy foamy goodness at home, too! ---
**Author:** ![Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hey_It_s_That_Guy)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2005, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-that-foamy-hand-soap/301348/6 "2005-04-27T15:01:03Z")
I’ve been at people’s houses where they have nice foamy hand soap from places like Bath and Body Works. Usually it comes in a fancy-looking plastic dispenser and smells really good. What I can’t stand, however, is the fancy soap with the little flecks and bits of grit in it. It’s a disconcerting feeling washing my hands, and all of a sudden it feels like I have sand all over them, and then they’re glittery! ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2005, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-that-foamy-hand-soap/301348/7 "2005-04-27T15:19:22Z")
Am I the only one who finds foamy soap irritating? Give me a plain old bar to scrub with and Kythereia’s a happy lady. ---
**Author:** ![Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cab0a1/32.png) [@Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Man_With_a_Cat)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2005, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-that-foamy-hand-soap/301348/8 "2005-04-27T15:19:42Z")
Agreed! foam=good, glitter and grit=bad. ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2005, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-that-foamy-hand-soap/301348/9 "2005-04-27T15:53:34Z")
> [@Kythereia](#): > > Am I the only one who finds foamy soap irritating? Give me a plain old bar to scrub with and Kythereia’s a happy lady. And the Most Ironic Username/Post Match goes to… 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2005, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-that-foamy-hand-soap/301348/10 "2005-04-27T15:56:26Z")
Oh, shush. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac8455/32.png) [@Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bippy_the_Beardless)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2005, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-that-foamy-hand-soap/301348/11 "2005-04-27T16:14:24Z")
> [@mr bus guy](#): > > And a secret I discovered by accident - I refilled my foamy dispenser with regular non-foamy specified hand soap, and it makes foam! So, no real need to spend the extra $$ to get the foaminess I love. I find diluting the regular liquid soap to about 1/4 makes it work better in a foam dispenser, and lasts much longer too.