An African-American guest at a sci-fi convention in Atlanta did a test at the Atlanta Marriott, along with his white friend, to prove the soap dispensers would not recognise dark skin. T.J ...

Darker skin can cause the light to absorb rather than bounce back, which means no soap will be released. The video begins with a white man waving his hand under the dispenser and instantly getting ...

But how do bulk soap dispensers end up so contaminated in ... a half-inch of slime" that no one knew how long had been there. Commercial soaps contain preservatives designed to inhibit the growth ...

In fact, it may be the soap dispenser. After all, it’s the last thing you touch when your hands need a wash. And even though they get clean right after, the germs on the dispenser remain and ...

By Misty White Sidell Object of Desire is a column about particular items that attract cultlike interest. The soap dispenser could have looked like anything. Most important to Flynn McGarry was to ...