hands

The smallest category in Bath + Spa, and the most opinionated. Routine hand washing calls for plain, gentle, plant-based soap, used often and refilled again. That is the whole idea.

• antibacterial pump soaps promising to kill 99.9% of germsplain plant-based soap that lifts germs off and rinses them down the drain, refilled by weight into your own bottle
• Why plain soapWashing is the mechanism. Soap lifts soil, oils, and microbes off your skin, and running water carries them away. Time and technique do the work.Antibacterial additives earn no place here. For everyday hand washing the FDA found no evidence they beat plain soap and water, and it barred ingredients like triclosan from consumer washes in 2016.Special settings are different. Hospitals, clinics, and food facilities follow their own hand-hygiene protocols. Nothing here replaces a product your workplace requires.
• Pick your washTruly botanical. Formulas built on avocado, chamomile, nettle, aloe, and other plants you can name.Simple + affordable. A short, honest ingredient list at the friendliest price on the shelf.Prefilled bottles. Need a container? Closed-loop bottles, filled and ready to go.Unscented or botanical scent. Truly unscented options for sensitive skin, kept clearly apart from the scented ones.
• The nail brushFor real dirt. Garden soil, grease, and paint: natural fibers scrub out debris that soap alone leaves behind.A tool, not a treatment. A brush physically scrubs. It is not antibacterial, and we do not pretend otherwise.
• a new plastic pump bottle with every bottle of soapone bottle refilled by weight, for years

Mild enough for the tenth wash of the day: that is the bar every hand soap here has to clear.