Hand Soap

If you’re looking for a hand soap that’s effective, affordable and leaves your hands feeling soft and clean, you’re in the right place! Designed to be a beautiful addition to your bathroom or kitchen, our hand soaps are a little bit of extra luxury that’ll save you money and reduce household waste. Explore our hand wash starter kits, shop for refills and discover the Skipper difference for yourself!
 

Effective Formulas for Clean and Happy Hands

Rather than traditional bar soap or gel formula, our hand soaps are designed to mix with the air to create a foam. Our soap formulas are technically soap-free, making them gentler on your skin while delivering clean and moisturised hands with each wash.

Eco-Friendly Options That Reduce Waste

Our hand wash bottles are designed to be purchased once and refilled for life, making them a wonderfully affordable option. Choose from a range of scents, with each refill costing just $2.50 when you purchase a 12-pack of refills.

When you run low, it’s as easy as unscrewing the pump, filling the dispenser with water, tearing open the composable wrapper and popping your tab in the bottle. Let it sit for an hour to dissolve, and you’re all set.

From saving you money to reducing the amount of single-use plastic, our hand soap is a simple, effective and easy swap to make!
 

Gentle on Skin and Tough on Dirt

Our hand soap dispensers deliver light and fluffy foam that, along with being pH-balanced, also gives your hands an exceptionally thorough clean. Foaming soaps give you great coverage, and ours remove dirt and grime from your hands without leaving them feeling dry and stripped. We use gentle but effective ingredients, making it the perfect choice for frequent hand-washers and those with more sensitive skin.

Practical and Sustainable Choices for Every Sink

Skipper hand washes look incredible, are easy to refill and can be kept next to any sink in the house, giving you around 150 hand washes per refill.

Whether you only need one dispenser or have a bigger household and want three, we have a starter kit for you. When you order our hand wash duo kit or triple kit, you’ll also get one of our humidity-proof hand wash tins to keep your refills in.

Conventional bar and gel soap typically has a higher pH, making it more stripping for our slightly acidic skin, which is what can make your hands feel dry after regular washing. Our hand washes are designed to be closer to the pH of your skin, all while delivering an incredible clean - without the single-use plastic bottles or wrappers.

The cleansing, surfactant ingredient we use is sodium coco sulfate, which has larger molecules than the commonly used sodium laureth sulfate. This means you’ll still get hygienically clean hands without the stiff and dried-out feeling. 

We also pack in hydrating, skin-loving ingredients like aloe vera and vitamin E for hydrated and soft skin. We don’t use antibacterial ingredients, meaning all of our hand washes are septic and grey water safe.

Our foaming hand soap is designed to be better for your skin, wallet, and planet. The little packaging that we do use can be put into your compost bin and all of our products, from our hand washes to our Universal Cleaner and laundry products, are carbon neutral. Make the switch today!
 

Simple Ordering and Fast Delivery

When you order your hand wash kit, you’ll have everything you need to get started. They’re available in a range of sizes to suit your household needs, and we’ll ship for free Australia-wide on orders over $75. Choose the fragrance you’d like, or opt for a mix and try them all to find your favourite.

Free Shipping on Refill-Only Orders

When you start to run low on hand wash tablets after purchasing your kit, you can order as many or as few refills as you like. Our refills are light to ship, so when you order more, we can pass the savings on to you. This is why we’ll ship them to you for free when you're making a refill-only order. If you spend over $100 on any of our refills, we’ll give you 10% off, and any orders over $200 will save you 20%.

Whether you’re looking for hand wash kits alone or want to try more sustainable cleaning options for your whole home, our bundles have an option for you. With cleaning products that span face and body to the kitchen and laundry, explore the range today and make the switch tomorrow!

The best type of hand soap is one that effectively cleans while also moisturises your skin. Skipper’s hand wash uses surfactants to remove dirt without drying out your hands. For a more hygienic choice, especially when sharing with others, soap from a dispenser is preferable to bar soap, which typically has a higher pH and can strip your hands. Skipper soap, is actually "soap-free," and provides a perfect balance by leaving your hands feeling properly clean as well as soft and moisturised.

We've developed a foaming product that performs just as well as premium gel soaps. It's gentle on the skin, moisturising, and a highly effective cleanser. One of the reasons we choose to create foaming products is their ability to moderate consumption. Each pump mixes the soap solution with air to create a lovely foam, using fewer active ingredients than traditional gels. This makes them more affordable too! Foaming soap also lathers up quickly and rinses off easily, saving you both time and water.

In three easy steps you'll have a full bottle of foaming hand wash:

1. Fill the dispenser with warm water from the tap.

2. Drop in a refill tablet.

3. Leave the pump off while it dissolves, typically about an hour.

That's it! Enjoy a luxurious, moisturising hand wash.

Each refill provides approximately 150 pumps of hand wash and on average, lasts a month per dispenser. It will function just like any foaming soap you’re used to… that is, if you’re used to stunning scents, silky lather and stylish dispensers.

When it comes to removing germs, plain hand wash is actually recommended over antibacterial hand wash. Why? Antibacterial soaps often contain chemicals like triclosan, which have not been proven safe for human exposure long-term.

The top regulators globally (including the AU, US, EU and UK governments) all advocate that regular soap is equally as effective as antibacterial soap for removing germs and maintaining hand hygeine, as regular soap (like ours) contains surfactants, which easily lift and wash away germs & bacteria under running water. This recommendation was even made to the public during the 2020 pandemic to educate on hand hygeine best practice.

Long story short, if you're washing your hands for the recommended 20 seconds with regular soap, you're doing it right.

Yes, hand soap can be good for sensitive skin, especially if it has a gentle formulation containing mild surfactants that effectively clean without stripping the skin's natural oils. On the hunt for sensitive skin hand wash? Check the ingredients for moisturising components like aloe vera, added specifically to keep the skin hydrated. Additionally, fragrance-free options are ideal as they avoid artificial fragrances and dyes that may irritate sensitive the skin.

Luckily for you, Skipper’s hand wash is developed with sensitive skin in mind and comes in a fragrance-free option too.

You can even read reviews from customers that specifically mention "sensitive" or "eczema" by clicking the links.

Yes, our hand wash is soap-free and designed to be gentler on the skin than traditional soap. It also has a lower pH, leaving your hands feeling clean and moisturised without stripping your skin of healthy oils.

Sodium bicarbonate, citric acid, sodium coco sulfate, sodium c14-16 olefin sulfonate, peg150, sorbitol, sodium benzoate, parfum, aloe barbadensis leaf extract, vitamin e.

Additional ingredients for each fragrance below:

Vanilla, Coconut & Chai:

Vanilla planifolia extract
Cocos nucifera (coconut) oil
Zingiber officinale (ginger) oil
Elettaria cardomomum (cardamon) oil

Lavender, Cucumber & Lilly Pilly:

Curcumis sativis (cucumber) extract
Lavandula angustifolia (lavender) oil
Syzygium smithii (lilly pilly) extract

Bergamot, Blue Cypress & Sage:

Citrus bergamia (bergamot) peel oil
Salvia sclarea (clary sage) oil
Callitris intratropica (blue cypress) oil

Yes, our hand wash is considered septic and grey water safe, including for use with enviro septic systems. This is why we specifically avoid "anti-bacterial ingredients". In fact, all our products are septic and grey water-safe.

Our ingredients are reviewed internally for known hazards to our environment, waterways, longevity of septic systems (harsher chemicals can wear components) and of course, exposure to humans and pets at home.

Hypoallergenic means that a product is less likely to cause an allergic reaction, though it's still possible for any product to cause one. We carefully review our ingredients to ensure our hand wash is as suitable for sensitive skin as possible. This includes ingredients that are hypoallergenic, and some that are not. You can check out our listing on Product Review, where many customers with sensitive skin and eczema have weighed in on Skipper’s hand wash (click the links to view these reviews).

Refilling your Skipper hand wash is surprisingly affordable and with free shipping on all refills-only orders!

Refills cost between $2.50-$3 per refill (250ml) depending on your pack size (we offer a 6-pack and 12-pack). Refills can even cost as low as $2 each with Skipper’s Refill & Save program, where you save when you shop refills in bulk.

Specifically, spend $100 & save 10%, or spend $200 & save 20%. Customers often shop refills for all their Skipper products every ~6 months to hit these bulk buy tiers.

A variety of fragrance options are also available:

> Bergamot, Blue Cypress & Sage
> Lavender, Cucumber & Lilly Pilly
> Vanilla, Coconut & Chai
> Unscented (contains no scent/parfum)

Want to try them all? You can grab a variety pack to keep things fresh and sample all our scents.