I bought a couple of the Simple Human hands-free liquid soap dispensers over the years and have really come to appreciate its convenience for hand cleaning.
I’ve used a bunch of different hand cleaners, including gels, scrubs, and wipes. Sometimes I need something stronger for a good scrub or thick grease.
But for most things, I walk inside to the closest sink and this is what I use.
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They make rechargeable models. This one takes 4x AA batteries. It doesn’t work perfectly well with NiMH cells, due to the lower voltage, so I mainly use it with alkaline AA batteries.
I had a problem with one last year. Simple Human replaced it without much hassle.
I bought another one about a month ago. It’s something I use all the time, and it’s made cleaning up after work a bit easier.
We fill it with… I don’t know, whatever liquid soap refill my wife likes to buy. But you can also buy refills from Simple Human.
It looks like the rechargeable version is a bit more popular on Amazon. I like what I’m used to, but there are many other brands, sizes, and styles if you want something fancier or less expensive.
Price: ~$51
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Yes, they make pump dispensers with Fast Orange, Gojo, and others. I also still have walnut shell hand cleaner somewhere.
I try to use disposable gloves when I’m working in deep gunk, and hand wipes other times. You can’t fill these dispensers with a scrubbing degreaser, so maybe keep some of that around too for heavier duty hand cleaning.
See Also: Goodbye Baby Wipes, Hello WypAll Hand & Tool Wipes!
Blocky
Cool. My partner would love this.
For heavier duty hand cleaning, I usually rub my hands with vegetable oil to grab the fine muck, and then follow with 1-2 passes of liquid hand soap to grab the oil. This has been much gentler on my hands, and my tub of gojo is now almost 20 years old.
Yadda
My much better half loves Simple Human dispensers. We have 4 in the house. We’ve used rhem for many years. We use standard alkaline batteries.
Adam
I bought several Better Human models on clearance at Home Depot last year for $15 a piece. For as much as I wash my hands, I absolutely love it.
Analyst
I’ve had a pair of this exact model for well over ten years. I’ve only used them with 4xAA alkaline batteries as well. Walmart Equate clear fragrance free soap is my go to as it works well and is inexpensive.
Unfortunately over time the chrome finish degrades gets spotty and starts turning green. Fortunately once it starts, it doesn’t get worse very quickly. I think they have plating thickness issues so I hope you all get a good one!
Dean
I’ve been using this one from Amazon for 6 years and still going strong. I use Energizer Ultimate Lithium batteries and they last forever.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B078XDFDPY
Dean
It is also cheaper and has double the capacity
Stuart
But is it a real brand, or an Amazon brand? Looks like they sell a lot of random stuff. https://www.amazon.com/stores/Secura/page/AB5B3F8D-7AB0-4476-98E4-FFD1E34EEE0E?tag=toolguyd-20
JMJR
I would recommend the Umbra Otto. I have one at every sink in our house and we’ve been using them for at least 10 years. One died recently and the replacement I ordered didn’t have the motor hooked up to the pump, but the next unit worked fine. Good soap capacity, long battery life and half the cost of the Simple Human one you mentioned.
Tucker
We’ve had one in the kitchen for what seems like forever (10 years maybe?). You do have to clean them every once and a while or they get gummed up.
We tried cheap Amazon ones in bathrooms, and they never worked well and chewed through batteries.
Beanhole
We have had these in the kitchen and bathrooms for what seems like a decade or more. Still going strong. It’s rare to find a product like this that lasts. I hope the new ones are as good.
Charles
Today I got a knockoff SimpleHuman from Amazon for a vine review. It is awful.
The sensing works almost as well as the faucets in a gas station bathroom, the refill lid looks like a pump button that everybody tries to use.
The instructions say not to get it wet or to drop it from any height.
It has 13 perfect reviews from ‘verified customers’ and none from vine, so there is something off with those reviews – perhaps paid?
Why am I writing this? Be careful of knockoff products on Amazon – they may look similar, but here you waste $40 when you would spend $50 or a proven brand name.
JoeM
Thank You for reminding me. I’ve been meaning to get a couple of these for the kitchen and bathroom for years, never got around to it! Originally wanted to get spares of this back during Covid for Hand Sanitizer too. But, I have lots of pump bottles and dispensers for that now.