Foaming hand soap for the home

[Snuffleupagus]

Originally Posted by White Out 403

We like the pump soap because we have toddlers in the home and it just seems more sanitary.

You'll need bar soap in a few years though, to stop their cursing's

[Smartcar]

Originally Posted by White Out 403

I mean, that's like saying I shouldn't use paper bags and cloth bags for groceries because the trip there makes it all not worth while. I can't imagine making "special" trips to a soap store if an online option is available. We already pickup our throw away soaps at the mall, why is this different other than to be a "cool guy" and mock someone trying to teach their kids to make less waste?

Buying stuff online isn't any different from making special trips to buy something, it's just more convenient. It's not like it gets teleported to your doorstep.

[Locke]

Best not to risk it and just not wash your hands and bounce on the Devil and contract Wuhan.

[Samonadreau]

So many things in this life if just burned would be less cO2 then the car trips and jetliners we take or that get the products to us. But the activists who still like to take these trips or charge their vehicles with coal produced power, would like to say everyone else is whats wrong with this planet.

[Wormius]

Can you just buy a big jug of unscented hand soap and add a drop of some essential oil for the scent?

[Wormius]

How far is WO403 from the nearest store? Wouldn’t walking to the closest 711 or whatever more environmentally friendly gay driving to buy a jug or get a refill?

[White Out 403]

Cranston.

So far our front runner seems to be method. The refills are almost half the price what we pay at bath and body works, and the containers are already made of recycled material and take up a lot less space when you trash 'em. They're available on amazon but also Canadian Tire. I checked out the smell at shoppers when I was going to the Post Office.. the smells are pretty nice. But they're def no black cherry merlot.

[nfotiu]

Originally Posted by OutOfTheCube

It's not like saying those things at all, though. You've already made the necessary trip to the grocery store for groceries, the bag decision doesn't factor in. Same with going to the mall, you're unlikely to have gone to the mall just to get soap (it's possible, but unlikely).


Half the options suggested here are literally driving to a specialty store (which could be halfway across the city) for just that one product.



As for validity to my comment:


https://www.epa.gov/greenvehicles/gr...senger-vehicle





http://green.brightblue.org.uk/blog/...g-the-evidence





So driving the average passenger vehicle for one mile has roughly the same CO2 footprint of four plastic bottles. Change that to a gas guzzling truck or full size SUV half the city drives, then figure out that your specialty store is likely much further than a mile away, and you can see how it adds up pretty fast.



Your best option is to buy whatever soap is available on a trip that you've already made (like the grocery store example, you're there anyways for necessities), or, at the mall when you're there getting other things as well. Ordering online is just the same problem with someone else doing the driving.

I'm not really thinking you proved your point very well. A rigid, plastic soap botte with the plastic pump mechanism has got be at least 5-10x the amount of plastic as a typical water bottle. I'm sure the OP is looking to fill a container that holds enough soap for 10-20 refills of the pump dispensers, and not just looking to go fill one at a time. I'd also venture a guess that someone who is that concerned about looking to reduce waste has an above average efficient car. The break even point on carbon reduction is probably going to be a lot more miles than you are suggesting.

All of that said, reducing plastic waste and the issues that it brings to the environment is the goal here, not necessarily reducing carbon footprint.

[Frequitude]

Strangely enough I ran out of foaming hand soap today and turns out there was a refill sack under the sink that my wife had bought. Ergo I am great for the environment.

[Cecil Terwilliger]

Originally Posted by doozwimp

Don`t know if its what your`re looking for, but my urine (maybe yours too) makes for an excellent foaming agent. Suggested foaming piss parties to my local barman but he wasn't too keen on the idea. Such is the tragedy of life.

This might be the weirdest post in CP history.

[Mr.Coffee]

This is a very Slivery thread if I do say so myself

[Wormius]

Originally Posted by Cecil Terwilliger

This might be the weirdest post in CP history.

I am kind of chuckling at how that might look to people approaching the urinal. Guy washing his hands in a stream of his own pee. That’s some Howard Hughes stuff right there.

[BlackArcher101]

Whatever you do, don't order online and have delivered by Canada Post....

[MoneyGuy]

I have lots of sanitizer but no expiry or best-before date. Does this stuff lose effectiveness over time?

[Fuzz]

I don't see the issue. Looks like it's a self cleaning package. No Covid-19 in there!

[BlackArcher101]

Originally Posted by Fuzz

I don't see the issue. Looks like it's a self cleaning package. No Covid-19 in there!

Somewhere a conveyor system is really clean. I should send an invoice for the package + cleaning.

[Titan]

I had the initial impression that the actual dispenser by the sink is what was being used, emptied and then taken to the store to be filled, every week or two.

Then I thought about it and realized I am not a smart man.

[Knut]

https://www.amazon.ca/Method-Foaming...xpY2s9dHJ1ZQ==

[DionTheDman]

If you want to reduce your plastic waste, might be worth checking these places out for soap and everything else:

https://canarygoods.ca/
https://www.the-apothecary.ca/TheRef...aryinInglewood