Antibacterial soaps banned in the US: “No scientific evidence” they’re safe, says FDA

[purves grundy]

 

[two sheds]

I keep reading it as "Antibacterial soup ..."

 

[gentlegreen]

Before of after you use the khazi?

Before

 

[pogofish]

Isn't all soap antibacterial?

Genuinely not sure what kind of soap they're talking about.

Triclosan is also very common in gels, body washes and hair products as well as hyped-up antibacterial soaps. Plus nearly every product positioned at killing-off teenage BO depends on it.

It also has a significant role in helping the cleanliness properties of cheap-shit products that don't really contain much of soap or other kinds of cleaning agent at all.

 

[Spymaster]

Before

Are the toilets particularly dirty at you workplace?

 

[gentlegreen]

Are the toilets particularly dirty at you workplace?

Not the seats of the select few bogs I use, but it makes me feel more relaxed about sitting on them.

 

[fishfinger]

The list of banned ingredients is here:

Federal Register | Safety and Effectiveness of Consumer Antiseptics; Topical Antimicrobial Drug Products for Over-the-Counter Human Use

I can see a loophole

 

[farmerbarleymow]

The list of banned ingredients is here:

Federal Register | Safety and Effectiveness of Consumer Antiseptics; Topical Antimicrobial Drug Products for Over-the-Counter Human Use

I can see a loophole

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Presumably that means that it would be unlawful to sell a product with exactly 1.5% phenol, but any other amount is absolutely fine? Sounds a bit daft.

 

[fishfinger]

Presumably that means that it would be unlawful to sell a product with exactly 1.5% phenol, but any other amount is absolutely fine? ...

No. The opposite.

 

[DotCommunist]

Not the seats of the select few bogs I use, but it makes me feel more relaxed about sitting on them.

if you sort of hovered over them, spreading yer cheeks with both hands you could avoid having to sit on the throne and thusly have the run of all the bogs you liked.

 

[gentlegreen]

Since they gave me a half-decent mobile, I like to use it as an excuse to listen to music and read Urban

 

[Mrs Miggins]

if you sort of hovered over them, spreading yer cheeks with both hands you could avoid having to sit on the throne and thusly have the run of all the bogs you liked.

Grrrr....no, no, NO!

Women's bogs are absolutely cursed with the menace of the hovering pisser. So many times have I sat on the seat in a dimly lit cubicle to find some cunt's pee on my arse *shudders*

 

[gentlegreen]

Where I work, a lot of the young clients go in for laying half a roll of bog roll on the seat - then bizarrely not flushing it away afterwards.
Also no one except me ever seems to use the bog brush.

 

[DotCommunist]

the menace of the hovering pisser

one of the lesser known Sherlock Holmes stories

 

[tim]

Who knew opportunistic pathogens had legs!

Anyway, I've never wanted to kill 99.9% of all germs, some germs are useful.

As a child I thought Germs and Germans were the same. I'm sure they used to push Domestos in the Colditz ad breaks.

 

[keybored]

Don't see how that's possible without a chair or something. I'm a tall bugger and yet the ones I've come across seem to be mounted too high to do that without assistance.

Well, at least you had a go.

 

[redsquirrel]

I quite like the sensor operated loo flush, taps, soap dispensers and blast driers that are now to be found in some places. (apart from the drier's noise).

They're fucking terrible, they never work properly.

 

[coley]

Not the seats of the select few bogs I use, but it makes me feel more relaxed about sitting on them.

Liked that, prompted nostalgic memories of the 'workplace bogs' from my last place of work

 

[coley]

Since they gave me a half-decent mobile, I like to use it as an excuse to listen to music and read Urban

Time your employers got the old 'time and motion' team in

 

[coley]

Grrrr....no, no, NO!

Women's bogs are absolutely cursed with the menace of the hovering pisser. So many times have I sat on the seat in a dimly lit cubicle to find some cunt's pee on my arse *shudders*

Ah, you used the NZ long drop bogs then?

 

[2hats]

From what I've read, most of the antibacterial properties of soap (of any type) is down to the mechanical forces of washing your hands, rather than anything else. A brillo pad would also be antibacterial I suppose.

*coughs* (not into hands)

 

[Dogsauce]

Don't see how that's possible without a chair or something. I'm a tall bugger and yet the ones I've come across seem to be mounted too high to do that without assistance.

It is rumoured that they're mounted a lot lower down the wall in disabled bogs.

 

[NoXion]

Well, at least you had a go.

oh, my aching sides

 

[DotCommunist]

It is rumoured that they're mounted a lot lower down the wall in disabled bogs.

double win, you've got the space to skin up afterwards

 

[abe11825]

I just had to fill my mum in on this, as she told me yesterday she heard hand sanitizers are being banned. I read her the article, and the first thing she said was "Like Dial?" an I said "yes". She got mad, but liked the fact Purell isn't going away too quick.

And I've tried those high powered Dyson hand blower thingies... Funny fucks, at best, due to the way it moves your skin around on your hands. Cheap thrills.

 

[gentlegreen]

I encountered a particularly disgusting Dyson the other day :-

 

[farmerbarleymow]

I encountered a particularly disgusting Dyson the other day :-

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Looks like someone has mistaken it for a toilet and shat in it.

 

[Sea Star]

Grrrr....no, no, NO!

Women's bogs are absolutely cursed with the menace of the hovering pisser. So many times have I sat on the seat in a dimly lit cubicle to find some cunt's pee on my arse *shudders*

mystery solved. I mean i know why there's piss all over the seat in men's bogs but since i've been using the women's i hadn't seen this for a long time till earlier this year when there was a puddle of piss on the seat when i went to go in a public loo.

I did wonder what the fuck?

 

[pogofish]

Piss is actually a pretty excellent natural antibacterial - Which is why even the most manky bogs often turn-in better results than pristine kitchens in cleanliness testing.

 

[pogofish]

As a child I thought Germs and Germans were the same. I'm sure they used to push Domestos in the Colditz ad breaks.

The old terms for germs was germins - as in "natures germins" from Shakespeare.