Toilets with liquid soap, hand lotion and those Dyson handdryers, what is the best sequence of use?

[tim]

Toilets with dispensers for soap and hand lotion seem to be spreading leaving me perplexed, particularly as they are usually found alongside those Dyson hot air hand grills.

So after an initial hand wetting is it

1. Soap, rinse, lotion rinse grill hands.
2.Lotion or soap, rinse and grill.

3. Soap, rinse, grill, lotion.

4. Other sequence.

I have also become an enthusiast, if erratic user of alcoholic hand sterilising gloop over the past few years, how should that be factored into the above hand washing regime.

 

[8ball]

No. 3.

 

[FridgeMagnet]

3. You should moisturise after washing and drying.

I have no idea where hand sanitiser fits into this. I don't think you really need to apply it if you've washed your hands sanitarily already, it's for situations where you can't wash properly afaik. But either way you don't want to mix it with moisturiser or any other gunk so I'd do it first.

 

[Sprocket.]

No.3
Though put a squidge of sanitiser into the palm of one hand to use after leaving and touching the door handle.

 

[danny la rouge]

4. Other sequence.

Lotion both before wetting hands and after washing. Water dries out skin more than almost anything else, and so a barrier before washing is indicated.

 

[FridgeMagnet]

Lotion both before wetting hands and after washing. Water dries out skin more than almost anything else, and so a barrier before washing is indicated.

That is good advice if you want to coat your hands with slime before having to wash it off extra hard.

 

[8ball]

Water dries out skin more than almost anything else...

My life has been filled with a quite different experience of water.

 

[danny la rouge]

My life has been filled with a quite different experience of water.

Well, there you go. Counterintuitive though it may seem, the advice I've repeated it what qualified dermatologists tell people. But it’s entirely your call whether you accept it.

 

[tim]

The fact that the lotion and soap are bracketed,together, like salt and pepper, in these contemporary conveniences is what perplexed me, as it means walking to the hand grill then returning to the sink.

To be honest what initially perplexed me was that there seemed to be two types of sosp

 

[JuanTwoThree]

The end of the sequence, regardless of what comes before, is wipe both sides of hands on the bum of your jeans.

 

[telbert]

You're asking how to wash your hands and apply lotion?

 

[tim]

You're asking how to wash your hands and apply lotion?

I am perplexed by the presence of lotion dispensers by the soap, not being used to such fancy things. Anyway lotion of any sort had never played a big role in my hand maintenance regime. Sun lotion I understand!

Anyway, thank you for hand shaming me telbert !

 

[telbert]

I am perplexed by the presence of lotion dispensers by the soap, not being used to such fancy things. Anyway lotion of any sort had never played a big role in my hand maintenance regime. Sun lotion I understand!

Anyway, thank you for hand shaming me telbert !

Unfortunately applying moisturiser is something I need to do several times a day, working on a construction site. You see using the hand cleanser supplied in site toilets produces roughly the same effect as putting your hands in a water filled tank full of starving piranhas for a few minutes. Always the cheapest, shittiest most toxic rich bottle of Satan spunk that can be found.Every wash after pissing steals the valuable oils from your hands immediately leaving them sore and cracked. And as i get older it gets worse. For me, applying moisturiser after washing my hands has become as regular as wiping my arse after having a shit but I do now recognise that for others the whole washing/drying/ moisturising routine may still present a conundrum. So please, for the sake of your hands now and in the future take note:
It's water,soap, lather, rinse, dry and then moisturise.
Oh yeah , wanking with ropey skinned hands ain't much fun either.

 

[telbert]

Unfortunately applying moisturiser is something I need to do several times a day, working on a construction site. You see using the hand cleanser supplied in site toilets produces roughly the same effect as putting your hands in a water filled tank full of starving piranhas for a few minutes. Always the cheapest, shittiest most toxic rich bottle of Satan spunk that can be found.Every wash after pissing steals the valuable oils from your hands immediately leaving them sore and cracked. And as i get older it gets worse. For me, applying moisturiser after washing my hands has become as regular as wiping my arse after having a shit but I do now recognise that for others the whole washing/drying/ moisturising routine may still present a conundrum. So please, for the sake of your hands now and in the future take note:
It's water,soap, lather, rinse, dry and then moisturise.
Oh yeah , wanking with ropey skinned hands ain't much fun either.

Apparently.

 

[Rebelda]

Wash, rinse, dry on trousers.

 

[TopCat]

Read the Guardian.

 

[DexterTCN]

Why's there 4 sinks and only two hand-dryers?

 

[quimcunx]

Lotion dryer soap dryer water lotion dryer. ignore dripping hands because conventional wisdom is that Dyson hand dryers are totes amazeballs rather than actually the shittest dryers yet.

 

[rubbershoes]

The end of the sequence, regardless of what comes before, is wipe both sides of hands on the bum of your jeans.

..or on the jeans of an undercover police officer.

They like it. Really, they do

 

[Cid]

Lotion both before wetting hands and after washing. Water dries out skin more than almost anything else, and so a barrier before washing is indicated.

Doesn't really make sense though as you'd be either protecting your... filth... from being washed, or just washing off the moisturiser. So moisturiser after.

Though I don't think I'd trust public moisturiser.

 

[equationgirl]

I use a hand sanitiser after washing and drying my hands, and the Cuticura brand ones are not too harsh.

The toilets at work are quite grim, the hot water is more warm and the building management use cheap horrible soap, so I never feel my hands are clean enough without it. And there are Dyson hand dryers which are shit, as quimcunx said.

 

[andysays]

 

[JuanTwoThree]

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Blinding us with facts. Where's the fun?

 

[equationgirl]

About a decade ago, I once worked on an invention for a handwashing camera that was linked to a simple computerised monitoring algorithm to check if the seven steps for handwashing were followed. It was aimed at health are staff to reduce cross infection. Sadly, despite a successful hospital trial it never reached widespread use.

Actually, I think it was more than a decade., thinking about it. And don't ask me what the seven steps of handwashing are, I can't remember...

 

[telbert]

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The "protect" part is barrier cream that you are supposed to apply before you start work, although using it now is generally frowned upon as research suggests it strips the oils from you soon more than the soap does.

 

[Orang Utan]

Don't think I've ever been anywhere that has lotion in the toilets. Maybe the odd hotel.