When my daughter was born 3 1/2 months premature, we quickly learned how important it was to make proper hand washing easy for everyone in our household. Premature infants are particularly susceptible to infection and disease, so when we brought our preemie home, we put huge bottles of hand sanitizer right next to the front door and plenty of soap pumps at every sink. That was over four years ago, and while our friends and their children seem constantly sick in the winter, we usually scrape by with just an illness or two.
But you can cut way down on disposable plastic containers, save yourself shopping time, avoid messy bar soaps, and save money by using ordinary dish soap in place of special hand washing soap.
I prefer Dawn liquid dish soap. I can buy it at Walmart for about .12 cents an ounce. (If you want
something fancier, you can buy Dawn dish soap with Olay moisturizers for about .15 cents an ounce, or try the cheapest soap around, which is Walmart's Equate brand.) A 24 ounce container of Dawn lasts us several months because I use the following recipe for washing the dishes, too (although the vast majority of our dishes go through the dishwasher). To make hand soap - either the foaming or ordinary kind:
-- Use an 8 ounce dispensing container; if you want the foaming kind, you'll need to use an old foam soap container.
--Add about 1 inch of dish soap to the bottle, then fill the rest of the dispenser with water.
Simple, easy, and one more way to be a good steward with what we've been given.
something fancier, you can buy Dawn dish soap with Olay moisturizers for about .15 cents an ounce, or try the cheapest soap around, which is Walmart's Equate brand.) A 24 ounce container of Dawn lasts us several months because I use the following recipe for washing the dishes, too (although the vast majority of our dishes go through the dishwasher). To make hand soap - either the foaming or ordinary kind:
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