Originally Posted by
Antarius
Perfect.
Now that we have established this (the conclusion I was hoping you'd come to), how is a soap dispenser any more dangerous ? If the soap dish and tap aren't sanitized, and the counter may not be and the towel rod etc. Then why focus on the soap dispenser?
Simply put, if the dispensers are a risk, then so is everything else. Which means either the soap dispenser is as ok as the rest of the bathroom or you shouldn't stay at hotels.
now that we've, albeit slowly, peeled back the sanitization concept and established that the soap dispenser isn't materially worse than the rest of the bathroom, what's the issue with them?
Soap dispensers cannot be cleaned in the same way these other items can be. I can take a Clorox wipe or a travel size Lysol and go to work on the lamp switches, tap handle etc. I’ve never used an iron in a hotel and I can’t remember a time I’ve ever touched the toilet paper holder either. With that said, none of these items actually contain a liquid I’m going to rub on my body which was available to the previous guest. This is why I always ask that they be changed with new bottles when I enter a room.