Product Recommendation: Automatic Foam Soap Dispenser, Here's Why You Need It

I don’t know if you’re anything like me, but I wash my hands many times throughout the day because I spend a lot of time in the kitchen cooking, cleaning up, and doing dishes. In the past, I’ve purchased plastic bottles of foaming hand soap from various companies.  I have no complaints about any of those with the exception that, when the bottle is less than half full, depressing the dispenser on top will often send the bottle noisily toppling into the sink. I also find that the top button can get pretty messy from the repeated touching with dirty hands.

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This Automatic Foam Soap Dispenser solves all of those problems. All you do is twist off the top, fill it with liquid designed to create foaming hand soap, twist the top back on, and put it in place. Anytime you need to wash your hands, just put your hand underneath, and the proper amount is immediately dispense. You can fill it with the foaming hand soap refill of your choice, or you can make your own by combining a tablespoon of Dawn dishwashing liquid with water and adding a number of drops of the essential oil of your choice. You even have the option of mounting it to the wall if this is what you prefer.

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One thing I particularly like about this is that it requires no batteries, but charges by use of a USB cable. I never thought washing my hands could be as much fun as it has turned out to be thanks to this wonderful automatic soap dispenser.

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With Mother’s Day on the horizon, if you’re struggling to come up with a gift, this may just be your answer. You can grab one here.

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Industrial Chic Bathroom

I’m going to admit something to you that I don’t just tell everybody. I went a little crazy during lockdown. Something about being stuck indoors for weeks on end had me looking at my home with new eyes. All of a sudden, the contractors' white walls started closing in on me, the boring fixtures that were in the house when I bought it were annoying me, and the days of solitude caused the real me to finally emerge.

Fortunately, day one of lockdown, my remodeler was here to do a little work. That little work turned into a lot of work, and the place looks entirely different.

One of the things I love the most is my industrial chic master bath. There is absolutely nothing special about my bathroom, it’s pretty basic. Personally, I don’t like investing loads of money in a bathroom because I don’t spend all that much time there, and let’s face it, it’s not like I’m going to be doing any entertaining in the bathroom, am I? Don’t get me wrong; I don’t begrudge those of you who do. If you want to turn your bathroom into a spa, more power to you. Me? I have a spa day when the steam from the dishwasher hits me in the face.

Little things can make a world of difference, paint being an economical biggie, so the wall color changed from a flat sage color that I was never happy with to “Foothills” by Sherwin-Williams in an eggshell finish. The light fixture had to go, and I wanted something unique. I spotted this one on the Lamps Plus website, and in less than a week it had been mounted.

I love the look of weathered old wood. I had (don’t ask me why) taken a finial off of the weathered fence of our old house before we moved. I gave that finial to my remodeler, Joe, and told him that I wanted the mirror framed with wood that looked old and weathered like it did. 

 I also wanted the ridiculous towel rack over the toilet (Who uses a towel rack over a toilet? It’s too far away from the sink and the shower to be practical. Let’s not even discuss it’s possible other uses.), and replace it with two shelves in the same weathered wood with brackets made of gas pipe.

It was Joe's suggestion to use that same gas pipe for the toilet tissue holder. I love it!

The leafy candle sconce that used to be on the wall was replaced with a blueprint of a hot and cold water mixer valve from 1893.

One of my dreams was to have a skylight in the bathroom in order to fill it with plants. I did get the skylight, but, it doesn’t let in enough light to allow me to fill the bathroom with plants, still I do have a lovely little corner of low light plants that are doing just fine.

 The rug, a bold choice, what is the final addition. I love the simplicity of everything, the clean lines, and every time I’m in the bathroom it makes me smile.

One final thing, the toilet is new as well, and I’ll be dating myself when I say this next thing... I love my new toilet! Comfort height, an elongated, self-closing seat, and skirted, making it a dream to clean.

I know I’m not alone in making changes. What have you done in the past year as far as improvements to your home? 

 

 

I'm decorating!

 Brace yourself, folks, I have started decorating. Can you believe it?  It has finally happened!  I have never been so seriously behind in my life.  I blame Thanksgiving.  It just came too late and threw me off by at least a week.  First, there was the whole massive turkey-dinner-and-cleanup aftershock, and then, all of a sudden, it was mid-December.

So as not to overwhelm, I’ve started small.  The guest bath is one of the first rooms upon entering the house, and gets its fair share of use, so I started here. 

I like the cool calmness of this bathroom, so largely leave things pretty much the same.  I just add a bit of greenery and a cardinal bird or two, and swap out the white candles for red.  Done!

I love to shop the after Christmas sales, so got these red and white postal-theme towels from Pottery Barn.  They aren’t the best for drying, but are perfect for layering.

Cute, no?

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