While I like the Lysol No-Touch Hand Soap Dispenser, I do not like the price of the refill. My husband drilled out a large hole on the top of the original dispenser so I could use my own recipe of the hand soap. The refill is made of hard plastic so he drilled a number of holes to make a circle and then cut it out. I remove the dispenser off the base when refilling.
The Lysol dispenser I use at the kitchen sink is a diluted liquid dish detergent. I fill the dispenser with three quarters of very warm water and the rest with the detergent. Add both slowly so it doesn't bubble up much. I stir it slowly and thoroughly using a handle of a fork inside the container. It is a watery mixture but you can add less water if you want it thick. Since the detergent is concentrated it still cleans well even if the mixture is thin.
I cover the hole on the top of the dispenser plus down the sides with one piece of tape . The tape I use is a white plastic type tape. I use this tape because it's what I had and it is easy to lift off when I need to refill plus it doesn't leave any residue. You could use electrical tape instead, I just liked the color. Make sure the top of the dispenser is dry before applying the tape.
I like this dispenser in the kitchen because there are times when I need a bit of dish detergent on my kitchen dish cloth to wipe counters, etc. and it dispenses just enough. I also use the dispenser as hand soap. I must add that I do buy a good quality dish detergent, Dawn Hand Renewal, that is easy on the hands.
For the bathroom, I use the same recipe except I substitute the detergent with liquid hand soap, bubble bath or shampoo. You don't have to dilute the hand soap. If using antibacterial soap, it won't have any antibacterial properties if diluted. I don't believe the antibacterial soap is necessary for our household. Also, when our kids were young we didn't use any antibacterial soap and they were healthy. I just made sure they washed their hands when needed.
I have read that others have pried off the bottom of the original refill container to refill it but I didn't want to take any chances with it leaking. The Lysol No-Touch Hand Soap Dispenser uses four double "A" batteries. They did not have to be replaced for almost a year in our house.
By it's.only.me from NE PA / USA
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Hi I know what you mean about the price of the lysol refills. The soap in them doesn't last too long. I have a soap pump with my own soap that I buy in walmart. I buy the big container of liquid soap and with the tiny soap pump I place it in the hole of the lysol refill, and I pump the soap into it from there.
I make sure it doesn't get down too low so just a few pumps gets the soap in there. You have to make sure the lysol refill is dry when you put it back in the dispenser. I then turn it on and it is good to go.
At the risk of sounding like a grumpy old woman I really think the manufactures of no touch soap dispensers should be prosecuted! The idea of the contents of these contraptions is to remove grime and germs so therefore it should not matter that you have touched it before use.
You are going to wash your hands clean aren't you? What's more the use of the normal push down pump one saves on batteries. This is the 'thrifty fun' site after all.
I really like my hands-free dispenser too, but the refills are much too expensive. So I decided there MUST be a way of refilling them - and there is!
Get one of those syringes that you use for deep basting a turkey - the kind with a large needle. Take the empty soap bottle out of the holder. Look at the top of the bottle - there's a hole there. Pour the refill soap into the syringe, attach the needle and poke down into the hole. There is a kind of "door" over the hole to prevent the soap from dripping, I guess, but it's easily moved out of the way by the needle. Anyway, just keep pushing the soap down into the bottle till it's full. It works slick as can be!
To the lady who was annoyed by these no-touch dispensers, I like mine because if I have handled raw meat I don't want to touch the top of a push-down dispenser .. I don't want to have to wash that thing too. I bought my dispenser on sale and I use rechargeable batteries. To me that IS thrifty.
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