Review {Lysol Touch Of Foam Antibacterial Hand Wash}

Good morning all!

So if you've been watching for the past few weeks on my Twitter and on Facebook, I've been awaiting the arrival of my BzzKit from BzzAgent.com for Lysol Touch of Foam Antibacterial Hand Wash.

I joined BzzAgent about a month or two ago, and this company partners with larger companies to send products to BzzAgent's (I'm one of them! :) so that the BzzAgent can give an honest review about their products, and try out new products that the BzzAgent may really like. This in turn helps these larger companies like Lysol tailor their product to the consumer need. It's been a really fun company to partner with so far and I was positively pumped (ba dum ching) to receive my soap and 10 coupons from BzzAgent so that I could share these products with you.

 

So let's check it out, shall we?

They sent me a full size bottle (8.5 fl oz) of Lysol Touch of Foam Antibacterial Hand Wash in Creamy Vanilla Orchid, and on the cardboard flag on the bottle I noticed that the pump itself has antimicrobial protection. This is something that caught my eye, as I am one of those people who crack an egg, wash their hands. Touch some chicken, wash their hands. It's something you should do anyway, but I'm a little... obsessive about it, haha. I have always wondered how gross that pump was on my kitchen sink as you have to touch it to wash your hands... so knowing that the pump itself has antimicrobial properties itself was a clear winner for me.

It's also the never ending winter here, so I have ultra dry hands right now. I was a little skeptical as to the "soft on skin" and "creamy texture enriched with micro-bubbles delivers moisturizer to the skin" claim, as I've always thought Lysol products were pretty tough cleaners. I gave it a try (that's the name of the game ;) and I was 50/50 on this one. Initially right after washing, my hands felt nice but about 15 minutes later I had to put some lotion on because they were super dried out. The moisturizer in the soap did not last long.

What did last long though was the scent. The smell I received was Creamy Vanilla Orchid and it was a very nice, feminine smell. It also was a soap smell with staying power - until I had to put some lotion on, it was quite strong and I could still smell it about 15 minutes later.

This soap was foaming too - my favorite. I like foaming soap as I feel that I get cleaner and have less residue left on my hands afterwards over gel soap. You might remember that I've even made my own foaming soap, right here on this blog. So what's the verdict? Has Lysol won me over enough to stop making my own soap and purchase their soap?

Pros:

• Hefty amount of soap in a nicely shaped bottle.
• Kills 99.9% of bacteria.
• Foaming soap - it is nice and foamy - turn your hand over and it'll stay put for quite a while!
• Has an antimicrobial soap pump.

 50/50:

•  The smell was nice, but was quite feminine (a man may not like it, perhaps) and it was quite strong, so if someone was sensitive to smell it could be a bit too much.

Cons:

• Dried my hands out about 15 minutes after use.
   

 My verdict is yes - I would probably purchase this soap. I might try it in another fragrance (it's offered in Rose & Cherry in Bloom, and Wild Berry Bliss as well). I know how important it is to kill bacteria, especially with all of the cooking I do, so having a Lysol product that is safe to use on hands is great for me.

Hope you enjoyed my review! Appreciate quality soap and hate germs? Let me know - I have 10 coupons that I'd love to give you so that you try it out for yourself.

(Disclaimer - I was sent a full size bottle of Lysol Touch of Foam Antibacterial Hand Wash and 10 coupons for my review from BzzAgent.com. I was not compensated in any other way to give a negative or positive review of this product and was allowed to keep the product.)

How to: Refill your foaming soap dispenser cheaply AND easily!

Good morning all and Happy Monday! I've got a fantastic tip/tutorial for you today. It's easy, and cost effective! My two favorites!

I have a weakness. I love Bath & Body Works foaming soap, and use it in the bathroom and in the kitchen. But, what I ended up finding is that I use A LOT more of it in the kitchen because I'm constantly washing my hands... touch chicken, wash hands. Touch egg, wash hands. On and on. So, I was going through a lot of the soap, and while I think it's a relatively good deal, especially when you hit a good sale, I was replacing it too often and I didn't want to have to buy nearly as quickly.

So, I scoured the Internet looking for an answer, and I found crazy things like boiling vinegar and soap and using exact mixtures of all of these different things... and I thought there had to be an easier way.

I had this quite large (2.5 qt)  Softsoap refill bottle that I bought at Big Lots about 2 years ago for about $2-$3, and I had just been refilling other soap bottles with just the SoftSoap... but then I thought, what would happen if I added water? Sure enough, it worked perfectly.

First, gather your supplies. You're going to need:
• Some sort of liquid soap. I am using a basic SoftSoap Antibacterial Hand Soap... there isn't much if any scent. I am using the 2.5 qt refill size.
• Water
• An empty foaming hand soap container. I'm using a Bath and Body Works 8.75 oz size (which I believe is the standard size.) You've got to have the foaming hand soap container as the pump on this one is the reason why this works. It's got to do with the smaller cylinder towards the tube.

Now, take your empty foaming soap container and squeeze some soap into the bottom. I filled mine up to about the end of the word "Bath".

Fill your bottle up with water, right up until you're at the top of the sticker. Don't overfill, you'll need some room to shake!

Replace your foaming soap pump top, screw it on tight and shake the living daylights out of it. I don't know if it's the SoftSoap, but mine never separates after this, so that is not a problem.

And that's it! Most simple tutorial ever. No boiling who knows what, adding this and that - plain and simple foaming soap. I use so little soap out of this SoftSoap refill that I can refill my foaming soap pump multiple times (my guess would be at least 50-75 times with this size refill - I started refilling my soap when this refill was about half way gone, and I've done this foaming soap thing probably 5 or 6 times and used only about an inch of the refill!) - making this a very cheap refill alternative!

Also, the soap is nice and dense too! It lacks a strong smell like the Bath and Body Works soaps but I imagine you could buy a refill with a nice scent.

Thanks for following along! :) Let me know how this works for you!