What’s the point of this? You don’t have to touch the dispenser to get the soap out. Neat gadget, but they are advertising it as eliminating the “germy soap pump.” Well why does it matter if you touch the pump? You’re going to wash your hands right after. Isn’t that a bit of a contradiction? Use our soap to clean your hands, but don’t touch the dirty pump because…? The soap is ineffective?
What’s the point? The point is to exploit the paranoid, germophobic tendencies of enough people to make a profit on this gadget.
Thinking about this a little more carefully, it is probably a bit overkill for an ordinary suburban kitchen, but in places where germ control is critical and time is short (commercial kitchens, hospitals), it could probably help.
Let’s say you have a doctor in an ER who inadvertently touches some patient’s nasty, infected wound without a glove on. When he uses an ordinary dispenser to wash his hands, he will transfer some germs to the pump, and then (hopefully) go on to wash his hands thoroughly enough to clean them.
If someone else comes into that room later in the day and washes their hands casually using soap from the same pump (maybe they just ate some Doritos and have greasy fingers), they will still contact the germs transferred from the patient’s wound, but may not wash thoroughly enough to remove them.
I am not a doctor, especially not a specialist in germ transfer, but I would think that a hospital looking to minimize the spread of infectious diseases would want every advantage they could find.
See existing thread.
Oops… Forgot to search first! :smack:
I thought that surely I was the first person to think of this.