So I have this big refill bottle of generic hand-soap and it's like three years old. Can I still use it?
2007-03-15 15:18:15 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Health ➔ Other - Health
Allegra, your soap might have lost some of it's anti-bacterial properties a few years ago, but it's still soap, and soap is good. A few of those little bacterias that you graciously permitted to live will produce some antigens for whom your immune system will enthusiastically produce antibodies. Those antibodies might some day save your life when your go uptown and eat at that little Chinese restaurant with the flashing neon sign. Keep the soap!
2007-03-16 19:38:34 · answer #1 · answered by looking4ziza 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I would totally use it. If i was some fancy Hollywood type with hand-soap i would use it, and you got a jug of the stuff, and its only 3 years old!
Plus all hand soap on Earth was made 50 years ago, they just change the label.
3 year old hand-soap is a vintage year i believe.
2007-03-15 22:30:00 · answer #2 · answered by whatthefuusername 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'm not sure...I think you could still use it but I'd say don't because it might cause you some problem with your skin. I really don't know if soap ever expires, so I'm just guessing but...it's an interesting question. I wonder if it ever expires??
2007-03-15 22:23:28 · answer #3 · answered by Este 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I work at a restaurant and often I scratch my anus, and my genitals, but I always use soap afterwards. No one has gotten sick yet so I guess it works.
2007-03-15 22:22:56 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
if it were me I would throw it out and get myself a new smaller bottle
2007-03-15 22:22:32 · answer #5 · answered by caffsans 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
complex aspect. browse on to google and yahoo. that can assist!
2014-10-31 01:17:06 · answer #6 · answered by sherry 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋