Simple Human Compact Sensor Pump

We like Simple Human products. In our Capitol Hill condo we had three trash cans with matching liners. When we moved to northern Virginia we left the trash cans behind except for the small bathroom container. It has a step down opener so we don’t have to touch the lid. Then we purchased a make up mirror with automatic lighting. We put out soap dishes in both the kitchen and bathroom with all the hand washing going on these days. But they get pretty messy looking. Since our kitchen soap dispenser quit working we looked around for touchless brands and Simple Human popped up. They have a small dispenser that looked good. It was out of stock on amazon so I looked for it everywhere else and finally found one on the Simple Human website. It finally arrived this week. It needed four AA batteries that are supposed to last a year. It came with a small bag of soap - you can’t use exfoliating soap in this device, and of course, you can buy their soap brand. I’m sure Soft Soap and other brands would work fine. So the batteries went in and we tried it out. So far so good. We put it on the kitchen counter by the sink and the brushed nickel finish goes well with the decor. You can also adjust the amount of soap that is dispensed. I registered the product as it has a two year warranty. Perhaps the next device we get will be a touchless faucet. The Kohler faucet we have has broken twice in hardly a year. These days anything touchless is worth looking in to. Now it’s become more of a necessity. I wonder what other products and gadgets will change to keep ourselves “healthy?”

Restoration Hardware Soap Dispenser Returned

We bought bathroom accessories at Restoration Hardware several years ago that included a soap dispenser. It has been oozing some ugly black sediment for quite some time. So we just kept cleaning it but weren’t happy with the result. We needed another dispenser so I gambled and purchased the same one that was on sale. This time it started oozing the same stuff almost immediately. So I contacted RH to let them know we were having this issue and see if they had other people concerned about the product. They said they hadn’t heard, but would exchange our new dispenser with another one. However, since I couldn’t find the documentation of purchase for the first one, they wouldn’t exchange that one. So the new dispenser arrived yesterday. I printed the UPS label they emailed and repackaged our “broken” one in the box they sent. We also put our other “broken one” in the same box to make a point. So now we have to mail the package back to RH this week. We rarely - if ever - return things. I’m really not sure it’s worth all the hassle. Thank goodness the box is small enough to carry. 

Restoration Hardware Soap Dispenser

We outfitted our studio condo bathroom with Restoration Hardware bathroom accessories about nine years ago. The soap dispenser was giving up the ghost over the last few months. For whatever reason there was an accumulation of some black tinged slimy stuff under the dispenser mechanism. So we decided to replace it with another one and put it in our one bedroom renovated bathroom condo until the new one arrived. In the meantime I put the stainless steel Simple Human dispenser in the bathroom because it matched the decor better. So I looked on line for a Restoration Hardware replacement and found one just like it - except it was a larger size and only came in a shiny tone rather than the brushed nickel we prefer. But since it was on sale and would actually look okay in the renovated bathroom, we got it. The soap dispenser arrived yesterday. We filled it with soft soap and it is sitting pretty next to the sink. It matches the light fixture above the mirror. My husband still thinks he can fix the old one. My vote is to dump it. Let’s see what happens next.