Monday, December 15, 2008

Softsoap Wastes Soap - BITTER


I bought a container of Softsoap liquid hand soap recently. It comes in a pump which is clear. A nice touch since you can see how much soap is left. Unfortunately, the little hose that sucks up the liquid soap isn't long enough to reach the bottom of the container. This means that with about 10% of the soap left, the pump doesn't work anymore. Not only is it useless at this point, it does nothing but frustrate the person trying to get at that last bit of soap.

You now have two choices: 
  1. Take off the pump and start pouring the soap into your hand, which will likely be an annoyingly slow process while the water is running and hands are slippery.
  2. Get a new soap and throw out the old one with a little soap still in it.
The average person is likely to go with throwing out the old soap, thereby wasting almost 1/2 ounce of soap (in a 7.5 oz. container). If you used a new Softsoap every 2 weeks or so, which is very likely, that's roughly 13 oz. or almost 2 full containers of soap a year.

I'm not going to speculate, but that sounds like a lot of soap waste generated every year, presumably because someone didn't want to make the hose 1/4 inch longer.

Softsoap earns my first BITTER.

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