January 11, 2013

Friday's Quick Tip: Hand Soap

On Friday's I will posting a Quick Tip that I've found, heard about, learned about or just made up out of my own head.  Today's was one I made up myself and am eager to share with all Moms.  It is a MONEY SAVER tip which is my favorite kind of tip!


Do you have a dispenser in your house like this one?  It can be of any brand, any shape, as long as it has a pumper that produces foam.  I bought my first foam pumper in the hopes that my children would be encouraged to wash their hands.  Well it worked.  A little too well.  My daughter wants to wash her hands every time she walks into to bathroom (which is often!).  In our main washroom I had two soap dispensers.  One normal hand soap dispenser for the adults and a foam pumper for the kids.  Having two dispensers was messy and unnecessary.  I ditched the adult one and now everyone uses the foam pumper.  But these foam pumpers are not cheap!  I was usually buying one a week and paying almost $3 each.  I looked into buying refill jugs but it was cheaper to just buy a whole new dispenser as they went on sale every other week it seemed. Repeatedly buying and tossing dispensers was breaking this tree-lovers heart.

So what's a good Mom to do?

I figured out that there really wasn't anything special about the soap in the foam dispenser, it was the dispenser itself that was unique.  The design of the pumper caused the foam, not the soap in it.  So I practiced and experimented and this is what I found:

Create your own foam dispenser soap in two easy steps:
1. Twist to remove lid from an empty dispenser and add a good squirt of dish soap (aprox. 1 Tbsp)
2. Fill with tap water.  Swirl gently to mix soap and water.  Begin dispensing!


Ha!  That's it! Can you believe it!? I saved our household budget about $11 a month just doing this Quick Tip.  Also I can refill the dispenser whenever its empty in a matter of seconds.  And it's no longer on my grocery list. Fantastic!

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