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Pump-action soap dispensers are a disgrace – and I won’t put up with them any longer | Adrian Chiles

Enough is enough. Either give us a simple squeezy bottle that actually works or bring back the tried-and-tested solid bars

Even as I pick it off the shelf, I know it will let me down. I rate the chances of it working no better than 50/50. So why do I buy it, when the dead hand of impending disappointment taps so insistently on my shoulder? I speak of something so simple, so common and so mundane that this must be the very reason we keep buying the wretched things even though at least half the time they don’t work. They’re too trivial to make a fuss about. This must change. We must fight back.

I speak of pump-action dispensers on small plastic vessels of liquid soap, hand creams and a whole range of products that, in most cases, will not end up being dispensed via the dispensers with which they are supplied.

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Jun 10, 2026 Shopping Money Consumer affairs

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