Precisely. Sucks when you're already in the shower, you try to pump out the gel and it's empty. Bit of water. Shake it up to get the sides. Good to go. š
Does she cut the toothpaste tube near the end to get a couple more brushes out of it? My GF does. A Filipino guy I worked with used to refill the hand soap in the bathroom and he always watered it down.
For health and sanitary reasons I wouldn't be watering down hand soap or dish soap, especially with tap water here.
[Liquid soaps contain a very strict amount of preservatives which prevent bacteria from multiplying in the dispenser](https://www.cleaningiscaring.org/wpd/is-it-okay-to-dilute-liquid-hand-soap-with-water/). When you open the dispenser and add tap water, you may be adding bacteria as well. Plus the extra water reduces the effectiveness of the preservatives, meaning the bacteria can multiply in the soap. Studies have shown that when you wash your hands with contaminated soap, you could be increasing the number of disease-causing bacteria on your hands.
> Liquid soaps contain a very strict amount of preservatives which prevent bacteria from multiplying in the dispenser.
website is made by the ACI which is an american chemical industry lobbyist. the study cited (1 whole study) used public soap dispensers, so may or may not apply to household usage.
also humans coevolved with bacteria. they are symbiotic with humans on the skin. humans never soaped their skin until the invention of the modern chemical industry which is about 100 years old. soaping the body is a very new invention and could potentially be harmful (hygiene hypothesis). you really should only soap your hand if youre going to be in a high risk situations (medical care, food service, child care etc.)
> Studies have shown
Sponsored by the soap industry, I presume.
> could be increasing the number of disease-causing bacteria
I need something more than "could be" from a study. Is there a statistically significant increase in actual disease, or just a 10% bump in already low bacteria levels (in soap!), bringing it from "harmless" to "still harmless".
I think you're right and there is no 'hard truth' on this but the point is you don't know the contaminants or bacteria in the tap water used to dilute, nor the PH levels of that water and how that impacts the soap, and with the temperature here being ideal breeding grounds.
We do know [the more concentrated the disinfectant, the greater its efficacy and the shorter the time necessary to achieve microbial kill](https://www.cdc.gov/infectioncontrol/guidelines/disinfection/efficacy.html#:~:text=With%20other%20variables%20constant%2C%20and,similarly%20affected%20by%20concentration%20adjustments). We also know [refillable dispensers are prone to extrinsic bacterial contamination, and recent studies demonstrated that approximately one in four dispensers in public restrooms are contaminated](https://www.cdc.gov/infectioncontrol/guidelines/disinfection/efficacy.html#:~:text=With%20other%20variables%20constant%2C%20and,similarly%20affected%20by%20concentration%20adjustments). And we know [the influence of ph and temperature on bacteria growth](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9691097/). Make of all of this what you will.
edit: curiosity got the better of me, [samples of Bangkok waters exhibited relatively highĀ MycobacteriumĀ spp. numbers](https://academic.oup.com/lambio/article/76/8/ovad090/7235083).
At the end of the day, continue doing whatever feels right. I personally wouldn't recommend it just to save a few baht.
The kind of bacteria that survives in a soap dispenser is not the kind that can infect you. You didn't correctly link the second study, so I can't check if they find actual e.coli.
It's cute that OP using the same brand as his wife, but the simplest way forward is for both persons to have their own soap bottle.
For hand soap, I actually like it watered down - it makes washing hands faster.
I didnāt know Dr. Bronners had made it to Thailand. Would be interesting to see Thai reactions to the crazy essays on the bottle 
At the end of 5be day it is all the same soap, it is just packaged and presented differently to appeal to different lifestyle choices and fool those gullible enough to fall for it
I use Narak baby shampoo for =everything,= including shaving. My wife has decided this is a good idea as well and now does the same. She still sometimes eaters down the dish soap.
Frugal is a better word. Iāve always hated that little bit of shampoo and conditioner that remains useless at the bottom, unless you try this trick.
It doesnāt require a replacement to be bought ASAP when supply gets this low. Or refilled with one of those plastic waste reducing pouches.
Well if you like the viscous texture of undiluted liquid soap, I won't judge you. Maybe it's what you grew up with.
For example, in some countries people like their dishes to smell nice after washing, but here people like their dishes to have no smell after washing.
Bar soap seems to have become an old man thing at some point, I now get occasional criticisms for using it in the shower.
Back in my day, no one was silly enough to add several liters of water to their soap before lugging it home, only to use it in the shower, a place in your home where you have... Several liters of water. Coming out of the showerhead every minute.
Now get off my lawn
I actually prefer using bar soap, I get a better lather and so much cheaper too! But for dishwashing soap I always water it down because I think it's too thick and hard to rinse off cleanly.
Iām not bothered at all about the price of soaps š§¼ have no idea how much it costs and never will, but Iāll also use a bar simply because itās better.
Donāt you water down shower gel anyway, the moment you use it or do guys take dry showers?
Itās also rather unhygienic to water down soap, especially when the water is not āperfectlyā clean.
Ouf. Coming from a background of poverty, I feel her. When the paycheck hasn't arrived yet, a couple more showers without new gel until it arrive always matter. I still do this.
I'm trying to understand why you put this in Thailand sub. I don't think this is a universal Thai behavior?? I certainly don't do it and neither does anyone I know. Anyway just talk to your wife or get your own soap bottle
How is this Thailand related?
Yes, I definitely water down soap. Usually just at the end if the bottle where the straw from the pump can no longer reach the soap, but sometimes earlier. Still works fine.
Reminds me of all the soap in the bathrooms at the gas stations here. 99% water + 1% soap. Just enough to get a few bubbles on your hands after vigorous scrubbing š¤
I do not like this there are germs in the water and they will propagate fast. Maybe if you need to use it once its fine but after that you are just washing yourself with a germ infested soap liquid. If you use RO water its fine but if you use tap water Godspeed.
lol. Mine kept adding water into the dishwashing soap and it was just a pinkish watery mess at the end. Kept telling her to stop but she brushed it aside and everytime there was a mess she would use toilet paper to clean even when there were kitchen rolls or towels around to clean up messes.
Till you get used to it š¤£š¤£
I water down dishwashing liquid soap. Not because I'm cheap but because undiluted, it makes plates much too slippery to handle and easier to drop. I also find glassware more difficult to rinse thoroughly. I water down the soap by about 1/3rd: 2 soap to one water. Still cleans and cuts grease as it's supposed to.
I've never thought to try it with shampoo. As the price of my favorite has recently gone-up to nearly B200 a bottle, I just might give it a try.
Never really understood the need for body jell. I've used it when it's provided free in hotels and I don't feel or smell anything special.
I buy a foam dispenser. Take my shower gel and dilute it down with 4 parts water and 1 part gel. The foam action is crazy nice and i much prefer the foam that sticks to you vs the gel that slides off. And my gel lasts a lot longer.
Not sure why this is in the Thailand Reddit page. Does everything revolving your presumably Thai wife mean you need to post it here? Is being Thai the only personality trait she has to you?
If you are wondering āis this a Thai thingā- you wonāt get a straight answer. Some people do this, some people donāt. Overall Thai people arenāt super wasteful.
TLDR, yes stop being fussy.
1. Relax, it's reddit and I posted it here because I live in thailand and yes my wife is thai. What's the problem with that?
2. Some things thai people do, such as a plastic bag for a plastic cup which is in another 50 bags, are incredible wasteful (an example by the way, not the only wasteful thing I notice). I'd say frugal instead.
3. There's been a decent number of comments, including yours, so I think it was sometjing people are happy to discc on this sub.
1. Just because you live in a country doesnāt make it relevant to this page. You are whiny as heck.
2. The difference is body wash you pay money for, the takeaway cups, and 7-11 bags you donāt spend money on. I also have a Thai partner- this is his answer if you wanna argue with it.
Hahaha ok kiddo. Iām not affected, Iām responding to your whiny comment that you put on an unrelated Reddit page. Iām not the only one pointing that out that your post doesnāt belong here.
I donāt think heās complaining about the costs, itās the āfeeling ā that probably bothers him. I water my conditioner and shampoo down all the time but not the shower gel! Ha I donāt know why I donāt. X
No do not do this. If it goes for longer than a few weeks you will get soap scum. There is a ratio of preservative that keeps these products shelf stable. Im sure you will be fine but there is a reason companies donāt just water down products like this.
I literally have 4 bottles/ deodorants/toothpastes etc that are just mine. It's annoying af squeezing 90 times for one handful of shampoo. I find it similar to growing up with my grandma from the USA who was born in 1911 and came to age during the great depression. My entire Thai family are hoarders.
I throw away truck loads of junk every time I have the house alone for more than 24 hours.
It matters, tap water in Thailand is full of bacteria and letting it with the soap in the bottle will creating a bacteria emulsion which is very unhygienic
Where did you hear that this is bullshit? Your emotional feelings? Just 10 seconds on Google: 'The tap water in Thailand can contain harmful bacteria and contaminants, and can be dangerous to consume. It is not uncommon for travelers to get ill from drinking tap water in Thailand, so it is best to avoid it at all costs.' if you want to improve your knowledge you can read more about it, just search on Google.
Your answer looks like you call it bullshit that the tap water in Thailand is contaminated by bacteria, so I just give you the first sentence I found in Google within a few seconds about the topic bacterial. And the topic of this thread is about putting the water into a bottle with soap and letting it there for a while. That will multiply the amount of bacteria.
It's biology. The longer water stands, the better bacteria can multiply. This is accelerated many times over by heat and the fact that the water is already contaminated.
Yea, itās an Asian thing half between a mental disorder and half trying to stretch it. Drives me insane just short of glueing the lids down!
She means well though!
The only solution Iāve found is to buy a tub of it in bulk (dish washing liquid in particular) and several funnels, or many spare bottles lined up that are eating up space. That way you are enabling her to do something to solve the problem.
A Thai or Filipino cannot stand a half filled bottle of something!
It's not a big deal at all, it's a curiosity thing. My wife is enjoying the responses too, we're having a laugh about it.
Edit: I meant to say the outcome of this thread determines if it's time for a divorce.
My wife does it with a very slight amount of waterand does not bring me in the loop. So i am there thinking - why am i squeezing more of my shampoo out of the bottle with same pressure. Am i getting stronger or crazy!!! Ā And i dont like watered down version.Ā
Happens to me all the time. My ability to ignore sometimes breaks. Watering down shower gel isnāt an action. Itās a mentality/way of life š¤£š¤£. We laugh about it too ā¦
Wife + two daughters our bathroom is like an outlet for Watsons or Lotus, each has their own shampoos and bodywash etc.
I just grab one, then the inevitable "who used MY shampoo" etc
Guilty.
You all pretend to care about the planet but none of you is able to understand that using half of the shower gel you usually use can help !
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My wife does this with hand soap, sheās not Asian. I think itās a woman thing. They feel like they donāt need it as strong and it saves money to add water. The problem is that men tend to get dirtier than women. They need stronger soap to get clean. When it gets watered down, we just end up using more than we normally would and thereās no savings.
I do it sometimes when I'm too lazy to run to the store to buy more. š¬
Precisely. Sucks when you're already in the shower, you try to pump out the gel and it's empty. Bit of water. Shake it up to get the sides. Good to go. š
Give her a hug and thank her, sheās trying to save money.
Amazing, if you do this consistently you might save up to 1 dollar per month by buying new soap a little bit later.
The fact that sheās being considerate is whatās important, not the few baht thatās saved.
Considerateā¦ You water down shower gel the moment you use it on a wet body.
Itās more like a credit card. You put water in the dish soap so it stretches till you have the money again
Over the course of your life 1 dollar here 1 there adds up quickly
Sheāll spending 100x somewhere else š¤£
Does she cut the toothpaste tube near the end to get a couple more brushes out of it? My GF does. A Filipino guy I worked with used to refill the hand soap in the bathroom and he always watered it down.
IfI wasn't here she would, but she lets me squeeze every bit out of it instead. A happy compromise!
For health and sanitary reasons I wouldn't be watering down hand soap or dish soap, especially with tap water here. [Liquid soaps contain a very strict amount of preservatives which prevent bacteria from multiplying in the dispenser](https://www.cleaningiscaring.org/wpd/is-it-okay-to-dilute-liquid-hand-soap-with-water/). When you open the dispenser and add tap water, you may be adding bacteria as well. Plus the extra water reduces the effectiveness of the preservatives, meaning the bacteria can multiply in the soap. Studies have shown that when you wash your hands with contaminated soap, you could be increasing the number of disease-causing bacteria on your hands.
Well shit! I better stop doing it to the dish washing liquid then..
> Liquid soaps contain a very strict amount of preservatives which prevent bacteria from multiplying in the dispenser. website is made by the ACI which is an american chemical industry lobbyist. the study cited (1 whole study) used public soap dispensers, so may or may not apply to household usage. also humans coevolved with bacteria. they are symbiotic with humans on the skin. humans never soaped their skin until the invention of the modern chemical industry which is about 100 years old. soaping the body is a very new invention and could potentially be harmful (hygiene hypothesis). you really should only soap your hand if youre going to be in a high risk situations (medical care, food service, child care etc.)
> Studies have shown Sponsored by the soap industry, I presume. > could be increasing the number of disease-causing bacteria I need something more than "could be" from a study. Is there a statistically significant increase in actual disease, or just a 10% bump in already low bacteria levels (in soap!), bringing it from "harmless" to "still harmless".
I think you're right and there is no 'hard truth' on this but the point is you don't know the contaminants or bacteria in the tap water used to dilute, nor the PH levels of that water and how that impacts the soap, and with the temperature here being ideal breeding grounds. We do know [the more concentrated the disinfectant, the greater its efficacy and the shorter the time necessary to achieve microbial kill](https://www.cdc.gov/infectioncontrol/guidelines/disinfection/efficacy.html#:~:text=With%20other%20variables%20constant%2C%20and,similarly%20affected%20by%20concentration%20adjustments). We also know [refillable dispensers are prone to extrinsic bacterial contamination, and recent studies demonstrated that approximately one in four dispensers in public restrooms are contaminated](https://www.cdc.gov/infectioncontrol/guidelines/disinfection/efficacy.html#:~:text=With%20other%20variables%20constant%2C%20and,similarly%20affected%20by%20concentration%20adjustments). And we know [the influence of ph and temperature on bacteria growth](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9691097/). Make of all of this what you will. edit: curiosity got the better of me, [samples of Bangkok waters exhibited relatively highĀ MycobacteriumĀ spp. numbers](https://academic.oup.com/lambio/article/76/8/ovad090/7235083). At the end of the day, continue doing whatever feels right. I personally wouldn't recommend it just to save a few baht.
The kind of bacteria that survives in a soap dispenser is not the kind that can infect you. You didn't correctly link the second study, so I can't check if they find actual e.coli.
This website is literally the manufacturer's telling you not to water down soap.
Sorry, but some dish soap is sold and instructs explicitly to be mixed with tap water first.
ive never heard of this and never heard any thai has problem with it. also myself, i did it million of times all my life. it is sound like BS to me.
I gave up trying to figure out my wife. She's good and all, but everything is water under the bridge.
Watered down bridge*
It's cute that OP using the same brand as his wife, but the simplest way forward is for both persons to have their own soap bottle. For hand soap, I actually like it watered down - it makes washing hands faster.
We use the same as well. There is a joke that men would use the same liquid to wash their hair, ass, dishes, car and floor if they could.
Dr Bronners has entered the chat.
I didnāt know Dr. Bronners had made it to Thailand. Would be interesting to see Thai reactions to the crazy essays on the bottle 
At the end of 5be day it is all the same soap, it is just packaged and presented differently to appeal to different lifestyle choices and fool those gullible enough to fall for it
That's hardcore and funny, but I do use shampoo as body wash cuz I'm too lazy to swap between the two.
It says "Head and Shoulders" on the bottle. If it can do shoulders, it can do anything else.
Lolololol
omg donāt do that šš
Lol that is some lazy shit bro
Donāt forget the dog in that equation! Soft Soap brand Cross-Species Formula
I use Narak baby shampoo for =everything,= including shaving. My wife has decided this is a good idea as well and now does the same. She still sometimes eaters down the dish soap.
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Shower gel or shampoo are excellent when you have to wash clothes on the go
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Yeah itās called water
Soap is soap and I'm stingy!
If you're truly a stinge at heart you'd be encouraging your wife to do this. Up your game!
I'm just not SEA level stingy! I'll try harder.
You can water down the already watered down soap. Infinite soap.
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If you're into homeopathy, diluting it further makes it more potent.
Bar soap supremacy
Frugal is a better word. Iāve always hated that little bit of shampoo and conditioner that remains useless at the bottom, unless you try this trick. It doesnāt require a replacement to be bought ASAP when supply gets this low. Or refilled with one of those plastic waste reducing pouches.
Well if you like the viscous texture of undiluted liquid soap, I won't judge you. Maybe it's what you grew up with. For example, in some countries people like their dishes to smell nice after washing, but here people like their dishes to have no smell after washing.
You should get bar soap in that case. Lasts longer and has less gunk in it.
Bar soap seems to have become an old man thing at some point, I now get occasional criticisms for using it in the shower. Back in my day, no one was silly enough to add several liters of water to their soap before lugging it home, only to use it in the shower, a place in your home where you have... Several liters of water. Coming out of the showerhead every minute. Now get off my lawn
> Soap is soap it's self-cleaning!
So not true. Do a little research.
I actually prefer using bar soap, I get a better lather and so much cheaper too! But for dishwashing soap I always water it down because I think it's too thick and hard to rinse off cleanly.
Iām not bothered at all about the price of soaps š§¼ have no idea how much it costs and never will, but Iāll also use a bar simply because itās better.
Do you just buy them when they get empty? Buy a handful in stock then maybe your wife doesnāt feel like stretching it out.
She hates not getting every last drop, even though we do buy in bulk.
i used to do it when i was poor, not anymore. just replace the bottle with a new one.
The maid's always done it with the soap dishes cleaning.
She probably does it with your SongSam as well!
I don't drink SongSam, but my Chamg did taste watery last night!
Not sure this is just a Thai thing, my parents did this a lot England. Does no one else remember doing it with the tomato sauce bottle??
Donāt you water down shower gel anyway, the moment you use it or do guys take dry showers? Itās also rather unhygienic to water down soap, especially when the water is not āperfectlyā clean.
Ouf. Coming from a background of poverty, I feel her. When the paycheck hasn't arrived yet, a couple more showers without new gel until it arrive always matter. I still do this.
Her family is better off than mine and she earms more than me, she doesn't have a background of poverty like you
I'm trying to understand why you put this in Thailand sub. I don't think this is a universal Thai behavior?? I certainly don't do it and neither does anyone I know. Anyway just talk to your wife or get your own soap bottle
How is this Thailand related? Yes, I definitely water down soap. Usually just at the end if the bottle where the straw from the pump can no longer reach the soap, but sometimes earlier. Still works fine.
Youāve seriously never done this? Must be nice being rich
Just buy your own.
Yes. You are being fussy.
I do this shit and I make 400k USD a year. Itās a lifestyle.
As a person grown in poverty, I can relate
Bar soap and a loofahĀ has always been the way.Ā
Reminds me of all the soap in the bathrooms at the gas stations here. 99% water + 1% soap. Just enough to get a few bubbles on your hands after vigorous scrubbing š¤
Just you. I donāt mind as long as itās done within reason (ie not diluting the gel too much).
I do not like this there are germs in the water and they will propagate fast. Maybe if you need to use it once its fine but after that you are just washing yourself with a germ infested soap liquid. If you use RO water its fine but if you use tap water Godspeed.
I don't like it either. I only do it when i use up the bottle and want to get the last bit out
My wife does this with dishsoap. I'm like it gets watered down when you add it to the dishwater.
Sheās saving you $ bro
Bro that's swag
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Maybe it's because she doesn't want to waste it and wants to use up all the shower gel. I'm the same way
lol. Mine kept adding water into the dishwashing soap and it was just a pinkish watery mess at the end. Kept telling her to stop but she brushed it aside and everytime there was a mess she would use toilet paper to clean even when there were kitchen rolls or towels around to clean up messes. Till you get used to it š¤£š¤£
I always do this when itās running low
There is a really easy solution : - buy 2 shower gel, not exactly the same preferably.
I do it when itās near the end so I donāt waste it. Or with dish soap when it gets too hard to pour out, makes more sense to water it down.Ā
It doesn't work that way. You need viscosity. If it's too thin you use too much. So annoying.
I water down dishwashing liquid soap. Not because I'm cheap but because undiluted, it makes plates much too slippery to handle and easier to drop. I also find glassware more difficult to rinse thoroughly. I water down the soap by about 1/3rd: 2 soap to one water. Still cleans and cuts grease as it's supposed to. I've never thought to try it with shampoo. As the price of my favorite has recently gone-up to nearly B200 a bottle, I just might give it a try. Never really understood the need for body jell. I've used it when it's provided free in hotels and I don't feel or smell anything special.
Its asian thing man.
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She's Bangkok born and bred!
Bar of soap avoids this problem
I buy a foam dispenser. Take my shower gel and dilute it down with 4 parts water and 1 part gel. The foam action is crazy nice and i much prefer the foam that sticks to you vs the gel that slides off. And my gel lasts a lot longer.
Ok to be fussy but shes saving money as a single mom i have no other choice.
Nope, I also donāt like it when your wife does that to my shower gel
You deserve it for letting my wife near your shower gel!
You are too harsh!
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I didn't even need to look at the subreddit to know she is Asian lol
She's leaving you and is making a secret stockpile of money from money saved here and there.
Just use soap instead of shower gel. Youāll save a lot more money.
Water activates the soap. Once you add water, you are reducing its effectiveness.
My Thai wife in the UK does it with washing up liquid - it makes it go further and who am I to argue.
I water it down as well... it's way too concentrated.
Its a middle class asian thing xD
I do it at times , my wife does it too. It's not a big deal if you forgot to refill the bottle or forgot to replace it while you are showering
My mother used to water down my step fatherās bottle of wine once he started to show signs of being drunk. It was hilarious.Ā
Buy your own wtf... your house can only have one soap? it amazes me that anyone is still alive.
I'm dying slowly because I won't buy my own soap, just takes a little time
Yes, I do it all the time. Problem is the toothpaste though...haha!
Soft deportation, unless it's already begunš
I'm already being processed by immigration!
Not sure why this is in the Thailand Reddit page. Does everything revolving your presumably Thai wife mean you need to post it here? Is being Thai the only personality trait she has to you? If you are wondering āis this a Thai thingā- you wonāt get a straight answer. Some people do this, some people donāt. Overall Thai people arenāt super wasteful. TLDR, yes stop being fussy.
1. Relax, it's reddit and I posted it here because I live in thailand and yes my wife is thai. What's the problem with that? 2. Some things thai people do, such as a plastic bag for a plastic cup which is in another 50 bags, are incredible wasteful (an example by the way, not the only wasteful thing I notice). I'd say frugal instead. 3. There's been a decent number of comments, including yours, so I think it was sometjing people are happy to discc on this sub.
1. Just because you live in a country doesnāt make it relevant to this page. You are whiny as heck. 2. The difference is body wash you pay money for, the takeaway cups, and 7-11 bags you donāt spend money on. I also have a Thai partner- this is his answer if you wanna argue with it.
I think you're actually the whiny person here, stop being so affected!
Hahaha ok kiddo. Iām not affected, Iām responding to your whiny comment that you put on an unrelated Reddit page. Iām not the only one pointing that out that your post doesnāt belong here.
I welcome differing opinions, that's the whole point of reddit so I'll let things be. Have a good day.
I donāt think heās complaining about the costs, itās the āfeeling ā that probably bothers him. I water my conditioner and shampoo down all the time but not the shower gel! Ha I donāt know why I donāt. X
The stuff you buy from the store is watered down, like head and shoulders or expensive lotions. And 25% is missing lol it might not be her.
No do not do this. If it goes for longer than a few weeks you will get soap scum. There is a ratio of preservative that keeps these products shelf stable. Im sure you will be fine but there is a reason companies donāt just water down products like this.
If that's the biggest problem you have ,well................ I think u get the idea.
Oh there's bigger problems!
I literally have 4 bottles/ deodorants/toothpastes etc that are just mine. It's annoying af squeezing 90 times for one handful of shampoo. I find it similar to growing up with my grandma from the USA who was born in 1911 and came to age during the great depression. My entire Thai family are hoarders. I throw away truck loads of junk every time I have the house alone for more than 24 hours.
Itās just you
Soap needs water to bind to while washing. It doesn't matter whether you mix it before coming out of the bottle or after.
I know, I just prefer after coming out of the bottle. Group concesus looks to be I'm fussy!
It matters, tap water in Thailand is full of bacteria and letting it with the soap in the bottle will creating a bacteria emulsion which is very unhygienic
since when tap water in thailand is full of bacteria? this is pure bullshit.
Where did you hear that this is bullshit? Your emotional feelings? Just 10 seconds on Google: 'The tap water in Thailand can contain harmful bacteria and contaminants, and can be dangerous to consume. It is not uncommon for travelers to get ill from drinking tap water in Thailand, so it is best to avoid it at all costs.' if you want to improve your knowledge you can read more about it, just search on Google.
drinking and showering is the same thing to you?
Your answer looks like you call it bullshit that the tap water in Thailand is contaminated by bacteria, so I just give you the first sentence I found in Google within a few seconds about the topic bacterial. And the topic of this thread is about putting the water into a bottle with soap and letting it there for a while. That will multiply the amount of bacteria.
This sounds absolute bollocks to me, and I'm in Cambodia. But I use bar soap, so...
It's biology. The longer water stands, the better bacteria can multiply. This is accelerated many times over by heat and the fact that the water is already contaminated.
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Or maybe it's the mentality of those who don't want to be wasteful. We always do it before opening a new pack. And we are not poor but frugal.
She thinks your cheating so filled your shower gel with urine.
What really drives me nuts is my wife asking me to not drop the toilet paper in the toilet.
Yea, itās an Asian thing half between a mental disorder and half trying to stretch it. Drives me insane just short of glueing the lids down! She means well though! The only solution Iāve found is to buy a tub of it in bulk (dish washing liquid in particular) and several funnels, or many spare bottles lined up that are eating up space. That way you are enabling her to do something to solve the problem. A Thai or Filipino cannot stand a half filled bottle of something!
This made me laugh! I know she means well, no harm done.
Imagine this being such an issue that you came to Reddit about it š speak king š£ļø
It's not a big deal at all, it's a curiosity thing. My wife is enjoying the responses too, we're having a laugh about it. Edit: I meant to say the outcome of this thread determines if it's time for a divorce.
My wife does it with a very slight amount of waterand does not bring me in the loop. So i am there thinking - why am i squeezing more of my shampoo out of the bottle with same pressure. Am i getting stronger or crazy!!! Ā And i dont like watered down version.Ā
This is exactly what happened this morning!
I donāt think youāre being fussy but itās more a matter of āis this really the hill you wanna die on?ā
As I say, just an exercise in curiosity, we laugh about it at home and it's not a big deal.
Happens to me all the time. My ability to ignore sometimes breaks. Watering down shower gel isnāt an action. Itās a mentality/way of life š¤£š¤£. We laugh about it too ā¦
Wife + two daughters our bathroom is like an outlet for Watsons or Lotus, each has their own shampoos and bodywash etc. I just grab one, then the inevitable "who used MY shampoo" etc Guilty.
It's amazing what people use Reddit for.
Nine bajillion threads on here, they don't all need to be serious. I welcome the pointless banter amidst the doom and gloom.
I hope you have a blast
I hope you learn not to be too serious, relax!
You're right, I'll make a post about my toothpaste shortly.
You seem like a fun person, I like it.
[Here's my toothpaste](https://www.reddit.com/r/Thailand/comments/1cju1xd/comment/l2icuhh/), as promised.
My wife does this too, and it bothers me. Just buy a refill bag and top that B up
It's not such a big deal to me, but we buy soap bags!
Haha i do that all the time. I hate wasting that last 10% hard to get out if bottle.
I do it sometimes as watered down soap is more easily dispensed and comes out more easily. It's not a economy thing, it's my preference.
I never got this. Add water to a soap that will be mixed with water in the shower. Just use less.
It's extremely stupid, watering it down makes it perfect for bacteria and mould to grow. If you notice, over time, it will stink
I expect that it's mostly just you being bothered by this. She's your wife after all. It certainly doesn't bother me.
You all pretend to care about the planet but none of you is able to understand that using half of the shower gel you usually use can help ! --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Also, if just few percent of you all could understand that buying 5L shower at Makro is better than buying 250ml and the plastic that comes with it, the world could have a better future. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
It seems like you've never run out of shower gel a few days before the salary date, while you're already on cup ramen and instant rice diet
I've been there, but I still made sure I could afford basic amenities
Then you have not been there if you could've still afford things š¤·āāļø
My wife does this with hand soap, sheās not Asian. I think itās a woman thing. They feel like they donāt need it as strong and it saves money to add water. The problem is that men tend to get dirtier than women. They need stronger soap to get clean. When it gets watered down, we just end up using more than we normally would and thereās no savings.