LUSH Contest Giveaway – Natural Antibiotic Travel Soap

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The Traveling Mamas love vacations, of course, and the joy of discovering new places in the world is only beat by sharing those discoveries with our kids (and readers). What we don’t love? Getting sick while on vacation. When a child gets sick on a trip, it’s no fun for anyone. But it’s hard to avoid all those nasty germs in new places (not to mention planes, trains, and cabs). I’ve been hesitant to use Purell too liberally with my children – some vague fear of those antibiotic-resistant superbugs is involved here, along with that stinky, stinging smell.  This Lush soap contest giveaway offers a nicer way to help keep us healthy on the road.

Lush Contest Giveaway Soap

LUSH brand fresh, handmade soaps are fantastic. A new soap, 13 Soap Unlucky for Dirt, takes Lush Contest Giveaway Soapthe natural route to fighting off bacteria with the inclusion of oregano oil. Oregano oil is a natural antibiotic, and it’s a strong antifungal, antiviral oil as well.  This is no myth:  In fact, nurses have started using oregano oil to help prevent catching the antibiotic-resistant superbug staphylococus aureus (MRSA). Further, the Journal of Applied Microbiology reported (2000) that oregano oil fights off 25 different bacteria in lab tests.  LUSH created 13 Soap Unlucky for Dirt to provide a natural alternative to other antibiotic soaps – and it smells better, too. Along with the oregano oil, there’s honey and rose petals for a floral scent (rather than, er, a pizza scent).

We’re giving away 13 bars of 13 soap to one LUCKY winner. Yes, in this case, 13 will be someone’s lucky number! That’s enough soap to keep yourself clean for many, many travel adventures. Just leave a comment below describing the most disgustingly germy place you’ve been (no need to get gross in your description if you don’t wanna). In other words, let’s hear about a place where having a bar of 13 Soap Unlucky for Dirt would have really been useful. Enter until 11:59 p.m. (EST) Tuesday, September 8, 2009. We’ll choose a comment number at random, and annouce a winner Wednesday, September 9. (One entry per person; US mailing addresses only.) Have fun with this, and remember to wash your hands afterwards.

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165 Responses to “LUSH Contest Giveaway – Natural Antibiotic Travel Soap”

  1. Mary Jo says:
    September 4, 2009 at

    Disgusting and germy? Sounds like my work place — on an airplane!

  2. Jeremy Pepper says:
    September 4, 2009 at

    Any airplane bathroom, or airport bathroom. I understand the issues on the plane (can someone explain why people walk in there barefoot?!!?), but no idea why so many airport bathrooms are so scummy, US and worldwide.

    And any bar men’s bathroom.

  3. Jessica says:
    September 4, 2009 at

    Headed to NYC where 10% of the people supposedly have Swine Flu. Soap needs to be packed in each and every bag so I don’t bring it back to Sweet Home Alabama with me.

  4. Christy says:
    September 4, 2009 at

    One of the dirtiest places I took my kids recently was a fast food restaurant, where the kids were playing on the indoor playground. Maybe it’s just me, but why do moms lets their kids go on there barefoot? Many people in the world get sick from going barefoot. Not as often in the US as other places, but I know athletes foot is not fun. My kids socks were so filthy after just playing for about half an hour, I almost threw them out; will wash with lots of bleach. I was tempted to ask an employee if they cleaned it lately, but just left disgusted.

  5. Joe P says:
    September 4, 2009 at

    I have three kids. The school is disgusting that they go to. They are required to bring wipes and hand sanatizer (by their mom and I) and use them on every desk. Amazing how many send their kids to school sick. IF a child has a fever, they call the parents and the emergency number.. can’t get ahold of mom or she sin’t going to come? The child goes back to the classroom! Wonderful Florida Public school system.

  6. Linda says:
    September 4, 2009 at

    The worst bathroom in the world was in a samll mountain town in colorado. I walked in and walked out.

  7. Susan B says:
    September 4, 2009 at

    I absolutely love Mexico and visit there often, but their public facilities are extremely lacking in the sanitation department!

  8. Alison T says:
    September 4, 2009 at

    A toilet in a market in Peru!

  9. beverly paquin says:
    September 4, 2009 at

    we have a local restaurant that is disgustingly dirty and it is the most popular in town.

  10. Linda Purvis says:
    September 4, 2009 at

    There are way too many dirty bathrooms when you travel.

  11. Marilyn Wons says:
    September 4, 2009 at

    I used a public rest stop washroom while driving out of state. It looked like a tornado struck it. I refused to even touch the sink! Germs, Germs, Germs!!!

  12. Gary Emes says:
    September 4, 2009 at

    In my backyard this summer because the township decided that we need public sewer, started it then stopped in the middle of it/….Now my sheppie finds it “intriguing” :-( EEEKKKKKKK

  13. Brian E. says:
    September 4, 2009 at

    I found myself at a remote truck stop in Nevada earlier this year in the wee hours of the morning when I stopped for gas; I picked up the gasoline nozzle before realizing that it had some unidentified “stuff” on the handle and got it on my hands… I wanted to wash it off in the bathroom before getting back into my car, but the only soap there was an empty (and filthy) dried up bottle of dish soap. I asked the cashier for something to clean my hands and she suggested I BUY a bottle of hand sanitizer…finally, she offered a few squirts of window cleaner and a paper towel.

  14. Kathy Wilson says:
    September 4, 2009 at

    I have a phobia about public restrooms. So, when I travel, I will wait until I can wait no longer. This soap would at least make me feel a little cleaner. Heck, if I had 13 bars, I’d carry one in my purse.

  15. jenn says:
    September 4, 2009 at

    Bar bathrooms, they are so foul! I was in one a couple months ago that had a pair of dirty underwear on the floor!

  16. Lynne T says:
    September 4, 2009 at

    I would have to say the most disgusingly germy place I’ve ever been is the porta-potties that are set up at fairs.

  17. Tianna Lawrence says:
    September 4, 2009 at

    Lush & Germy try the front desk @ a public golf course… why because when men are in a rush using a urinal means u don”t need to wash your hands. “It’s not like you’re wiping anything!” Then they hand u their money to pay for the round. You haven’t heard any water running….. Purel dries out your hand and runs out pretty quickly on a Weekend morning when this is repeated 100 times in a 2 hour period. EEEwwww

  18. joanne Willey says:
    September 4, 2009 at

    germs……….eeeeeck

  19. Tanya says:
    September 4, 2009 at

    I love Lush products. I don’t live near a store so I’m not able to buy them as much as I would like. The dirtiest place — a gas station bathroom in Coeur D’Alene, Idaho. You would think a popular resort area would be fairly decent, but I still cringe when I think about it. I won’t go into details .. gag … gag …. gag.

  20. Kimmy says:
    September 4, 2009 at

    Post Mexico City metro ride. Ugh, I could have used a bar for my entire body.

  21. Joanne Schultz says:
    September 4, 2009 at

    I’ve been in some pretty gross public restrooms.

    Thanks for the giveaway!

  22. Grace Papaseraphim says:
    September 4, 2009 at

    Any public restroom in New York City where I live. Gross! Thanks for the contest!

  23. Jennifer G says:
    September 4, 2009 at

    Gas station bathrooms can be pretty gross. 13 is my lucky number always (it’s my birthday, this month in fact!).

  24. Margaret Smith says:
    September 4, 2009 at

    We were recently on vacation and stopped to use the bathroom on the boardwalk. It was totally disgusting. Had to tell the kids don’t touch anything.

  25. Christine R. says:
    September 4, 2009 at

    Gas stations bathrooms.

  26. Brenda S. says:
    September 4, 2009 at

    Just a day of shopping and opening doors at stores gets to me. I head to the soap as soon as I get home, and clean my steering wheel and purse handle often too.

  27. ky2here says:
    September 4, 2009 at

    Car trips bring a special outer circle of hell. When you gotta go, you gotta go and it makes sense to gas up and hit the restroom. Good gracious – things can get nasty.

  28. Debbie Lyon says:
    September 4, 2009 at

    I’ve been in some campground bathrooms that were so bad it took your breath away. Add in some outdoor creatures and it makes you want to wash your entire body.

  29. Lynne says:
    September 4, 2009 at

    Campground. Outhouse. “nuff said!

  30. LINDA S says:
    September 4, 2009 at

    My husbands bathroom- I refuse to go in there, I used to clean it for him but I gave up. You know he is an otherwise clean guy

  31. Judith Musick says:
    September 4, 2009 at

    most gas station restrooms (not all)!

  32. Rebecca Graham says:
    September 5, 2009 at

    The women’s restroom at Madison Mall during the Christmas season. Oh my, it was so gross!!

  33. Vicki Andrew says:
    September 5, 2009 at

    the grayhound bus station in downtown Los Angeles, I don’t think they ever cleaned it. Gross

  34. susan varney says:
    September 5, 2009 at

    at a gas station bathroom recently it was utterly disgusting
    mverno@roadrunner.com

  35. Danielle says:
    September 5, 2009 at

    Disneyland. You would not believe the things I have seen children lick, or people touch then touch. 1000s of people, boogers, sneezes, spit, wedgies, not washing hands, who knows what else and then they touch everything. If I thought too much about it I would have to take a bath in hand sanitizer after each trip!

    Close runner up is the restroom at Chain Reaction (concert venue) after a concert. Its an all ages venue but the youngins like to pre-game. Its worse than any bar bathroom, trust me.

  36. Tari Lawson says:
    September 5, 2009 at

    My best friend and I went to Tiajuana Mexico for a day trip. I had recently rained and was beyond disgusting. Once we were back on US soil I literally threw the new white Keds I had been wearing away.

  37. jen says:
    September 5, 2009 at

    2nd most disgusting thing I’ve been around was left on the back of a toilet on a train–suppose someone missed the target when going around a big curve or something. Gross, but I had to go.
    Most disgusting thing was a few days later when I took the train back (there’s only one that runs that route) and the bathroom had obviously not been cleaned–it was still there, starting to dry out.

  38. Cheryl F says:
    September 5, 2009 at

    the bathroom at the store around the corner..the store is immaculate but the ladies bathroom which is huge is filthy, hubby says the men’s room is always clean.

  39. Sharon Harmon says:
    September 5, 2009 at

    I hate to say it, but it was my husband’s grandma’s bathroom. It was so filthy dirty I was afraid to even use the grimey bar of soap that was there or touch any part of the toilet or sink. She’s a precious lady, but the daughter and son-in-law who live with her don’t help clean her house. I’d do it but they live out of state. Thank you for the contest!

  40. Tracey Byram says:
    September 5, 2009 at

    When my daughter was married to her first husband their house was so filthy that I wouldn’t even sit down when I was there.

  41. Jin says:
    September 5, 2009 at

    The school bathrooms have to be the dirtiest place I’ve been to. Do the janitors even clean that place?

  42. Renee Richardson says:
    September 5, 2009 at

    On a roadtrip we stopped at one of those service stations along the road. OMG!!!! I just held it, I felt like I caught something just by breathing the air in there.

  43. courtney s says:
    September 5, 2009 at

    hmm pretty easy.. the bathrooms at ALL public res stops! LOL

  44. amber says:
    September 5, 2009 at

    A sweaty mosh pit at a concert – yuck! Fun to be in front row to watch the show, not fun going home coated in the sweat of everyone around you. Ewwies.

  45. Susan Ledet says:
    September 5, 2009 at

    Oh, you’ve brought back horrible memories of germs! We had to evacuate during Hurricane Katrina and the most disgustingly germy place was a gas station restroom off of the interstate in Louisiana. Literally, thousands of people were fleeing New Orleans and it looked liked they all stopped there. We had to wait at least 40 minutes in line so you can just imagine the scene. It still makes my skin crawl to think of it. Yuck!

  46. tracy davis says:
    September 5, 2009 at

    There are way too many dirty bathrooms when you travel

  47. mickeyfan says:
    September 5, 2009 at

    Ok, we were travelling and it got late and we HAD to stay somewhere. This motel’s bathroom was gross (can you imagine it had pubes all over the floor!). My daughter was about 11 and got sick in the night. She cried because she had to go in there to throw up!

  48. Anil says:
    September 5, 2009 at

    One of the outhouses during my mandatory military stint in Turkey. I can’t describe to you what I saw in that squat toilet.

  49. Christine says:
    September 5, 2009 at

    Port-a-pots at summer festivals and the State Fair, never use them, ever! Thank you!

  50. DeeAnn S says:
    September 5, 2009 at

    There was this little gas station restroom in TN that was so disgusting I felt like I needed a complete shower when I came out of it. I immediately used wet ones on every exposed part of my body. It was so gross!

  51. Cassandra says:
    September 5, 2009 at

    Ugh. . .when I was in college, I was moving into an on-campus apartment for the summer. I was totally excited about it until I entered and found how disgusting the place was and how untidy my summer roomie would be–mildew in the shower, stains in, on and around the toilet bowl, pizza boxes and other opened food containers left lying around. Needless to say, I cleaned up what I could and spent as little time there as possible.

  52. Linda Lansford says:
    September 5, 2009 at

    the gym is a place that is hard to keep germ free

  53. Kris T. says:
    September 5, 2009 at

    The most disgusting place I’ve ever been was a public bathroom south of the border. Plumbing problems and lots of people just do NOT mix! Thanks for the chance at the LUSH soap. Awesome giveaway.

  54. Valerie says:
    September 5, 2009 at

    I would have to agree with the public restrooms, ew!

  55. d.e. manning says:
    September 5, 2009 at

    public restrooms are unfortunately truly democratic.

  56. Kayte CookWatts says:
    September 5, 2009 at

    An outhouse on a campground. But wait- it gets better. I fell- on my crutches-headlong onto the floor, covered from neck to toes in muck. Good times!

  57. Anne D says:
    September 5, 2009 at

    How about a backed up toilet in a gas station. I don’t think I’ve ever been so disgusted in my life.

  58. Eric says:
    September 5, 2009 at

    Most gas stations, are awful. Some have not had any soap to wash your hands. Yuck

  59. cathiem says:
    September 5, 2009 at

    I work at a bait store–nuff said.

  60. Sharon R says:
    September 5, 2009 at

    Oh Geez, the worst place I can think of would be a gas station bathroom, they are truly disgusting and coming in as a close second would be a car wash bathroom.

  61. Gaye McGill says:
    September 5, 2009 at

    California beach bathrooms are the worst I’ve ever seen (although I confess it’s been a few years since I’ve used one).

  62. Holly W. says:
    September 5, 2009 at

    The bathroom in a rest stop we went in on our trip this summer. We disinfected from head to toe after going in there!

  63. Jen W says:
    September 5, 2009 at

    Preschools…runny noses…kids who should be at home instead of school.

  64. Lisa says:
    September 5, 2009 at

    All those airports! We travel frequently and airports and airplanes have to be pretty germy!!

  65. Vicky H. says:
    September 5, 2009 at

    I am an anime fan, and one rule that just about all anime conventions put in their program books is “Please shower/bathe and wear deodorant.” Does everyone abide by that rule? Of course not, otherwise it wouldn’t be in the rules every year. So, it’s also very common to get ill after a convention weekend. *lucked out this year*

  66. Christina says:
    September 6, 2009 at

    Of course a “wayside” traveller’s stop woods bathroom!

  67. Theresa DeRosa says:
    September 6, 2009 at

    A bathroom at a rest stop on I-91 on the way to VT.

  68. Carol G says:
    September 6, 2009 at

    I think I have hit some of the same reststops some of the others have cited, but the worst I have seen was a house where the owner developed some psychological problems and was overrun with animals and their resultant filth, dirty dishes and other garbage, and the resulting bugs. It took more than some handwashing after working in that!

  69. Elizabeth says:
    September 6, 2009 at

    I once visited a home, as a health professional, where the plumbing was not working and the inhabitants were using their cooking pots as chamber pots…in the kitchen. There was rubbish piled ankle deep throughout the living quarters. It’s been 10 years; but the sights and smells are forever etched in my mind.

    We always carry soap when we travel.

    Thanks for hosting this giveaway…

  70. Anna says:
    September 6, 2009 at

    The grossest place I’ve ever been was in the girls’ bathroom of my college dorm. It got to the point where I actually did buy antibacterial soap just so I would feel a bit cleaner. It’s also discouraged me from ever sharing a bathroom in the future.

  71. Kelly Ann T. says:
    September 6, 2009 at

    My husband is a plumber enough said.

  72. Ashley W. says:
    September 6, 2009 at

    Airplane bathrooms are the most disgusting place I’ve been.

  73. shel says:
    September 6, 2009 at

    There was a bathroom at a certain large discount retailer not far from my house…I was pregnant and it was an emergency. It was the most disgusting bathroom I’d ever seen and I wanted to go home and shower after I used it. I haven’t shopped at that store since.

  74. Alli says:
    September 6, 2009 at

    There is a supermarket that recently added a branch of our bank inside the store. The first time I entered this store it smelled so awful I gagged. HARD. It was the most disgusting, germy market that I have ever entered. The floors looked so grimy!

  75. Lisa D says:
    September 6, 2009 at

    Well there are two places one was a gas station bathroom which I needed to use there were no options for not here. I was desperate. Also there is a tenant of mine who is a hoarder and it is the worst place I have ever in life been.

  76. Lu D. says:
    September 6, 2009 at

    natural, handmade lush ahhh sounds divine

  77. SiSi says:
    September 6, 2009 at

    Thinking about the most germy place I’ve been is making me feel dirty!! But it will probably have to be this Walmart bathroom that I went to… it looked like it had not been cleaned the whole day… so disgusting!

  78. Elkaye says:
    September 6, 2009 at

    Personally, I think public restrooms are the worst when it comes to germs.

  79. Michele P. says:
    September 6, 2009 at

    There was a restaurant I used to go to quite a bit that had the most delicious Central American food. Everything seemed fine, and you could actually watch them preparing the food in the back. It closed for awhile and some other people bought it. Anxious to go back, hubby and I paid a visit. I thought it was a bit strange that they had done some remodeling, and that one of the things they’d done was close up the area where you could watch them in the kitchen. It was daytime and hubby and I had just sat down to eat when I noticed movement behind me. Thinking it was a spider, I turned to see two HUGE cockroaches dueling it out on the seat behind me…they continued their fight onto the table as I ran to the bathroom to get rid of the meal I had just started eating. While in the bathroom, more roaches that scurried away when I turned on the light. We threw some money on the table, and hurried out, leaving everything still on the table. I went home and took a nice long shower, trying to rid myself of the effects of my meal in the roach infested restaurant. A few weeks later the place shut down…condemned by the health inspectors. To this day it hasn’t reopened.

  80. Adriana says:
    September 6, 2009 at

    NYC Subways…. dirty, smelly, with rats!

  81. Courtney S says:
    September 6, 2009 at

    The bathroom at the youth baseball fields in sooo nasty. I feel dirty just walking into it! Yuck!

  82. Ashley says:
    September 6, 2009 at

    I summer camp I volunteered at in Ireland where we could only take one shower a week. We camped outdoors, ate in a garage and cooked out of the small kitchen in the garage. The building was not that dirty but I was! I would have loved to have had a bar of soap and a little time with the bathroom sink. : )

    Ashley
    Beauty4Moms.blogspot.com

  83. Lana Monteith says:
    September 6, 2009 at

    I Almost walked into the bathroom at the airport in New Jersey. Had I kept walking I would have drown!!! The whole floor was flooded with ,well, nevermind and not a soul thought a thing about it!!! People were just splashing in and out and looked at me like I was crazy!!! I didn’t even need to go anymore I tell ya!! Waited till we reached our destination!! It was amazing!!

  84. Janet F says:
    September 6, 2009 at

    Public restrooms in NYC are disgusting as I found out this summer.

    janetfaye (at) gmail (dot) com

  85. Amanda says:
    September 6, 2009 at

    the most disgusting place i have been is helping clean up a sewage mishap while emptying an RV tank…

    amiddleton85
    gmail

  86. Christie says:
    September 7, 2009 at

    Public bathrooms have been mentioned enough so I’ll try to be different. For my job, I had to visit someone’s home. It was infested with roaches, open cans of cat food, food containers and worse. Even the toilet was backed up. I went home, threw my clothes directly into the washer without letting them touch anything in my house and then went straight to the shower. Unfortunately, you cannot shower your memory and get rid of nasty ones.

  87. Priscilla says:
    September 7, 2009 at

    A public bathroom at one of my local beaches; most people skip the bathroom all together and opt for the ocean instead. It’s gross either way, but I’d personally never step foot in there again.

  88. Amanda says:
    September 7, 2009 at

    Cleaning out a repo house with my parents.

  89. adrian says:
    September 7, 2009 at

    gas station bathrooms almost always seem to need a good cleaning

  90. Badger Momma says:
    September 7, 2009 at

    That convenience store restroom in Mississippi – YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE! Walked in, walked out – preferred to battle the mosquitos in the woods off the side of the road. GROSS.

  91. Robert says:
    September 7, 2009 at

    My brother’s bedroom is by far the germiest place I’ve been lately – old pizza boxes, dishware, you name it. It’s disgusting! I used hand sanitizer after leaving but couldn’t wait to scrub my hands!

  92. Angela says:
    September 7, 2009 at

    For me, the bathroom at a pub takes the germiest prize. No soap near the sinks, barely any water coming through the tap, garbage everywhere. An obsessive-compulsive girl’s nightmare!

  93. j0D says:
    September 7, 2009 at

    I loved my trip to Paris, but the Metro stations were utterly nasty! I felt so filthy when I returned that I wanted to burn my clothes, shoes and bag. I washed them, instead; burning them would probably be an over-reaction. Perhaps.

  94. AP Anderson says:
    September 7, 2009 at

    Just this past weekend I took my daughter to the mall to pick up some gifts for family. She had to go potty so I figured that the swanky department store would have a nice clean bathroon. Nope, I was wrong. It was smelly and filthy.

  95. electric island says:
    September 7, 2009 at

    The bathroom at a box store, ewwww

  96. april says:
    September 7, 2009 at

    I used to work at the Maryland renaissance festival doing henna tattoos. I promise I needed some powerful soap after my workday.

    Thanks for the giveaway!

  97. Kayce C says:
    September 7, 2009 at

    The most germ-laden place I’ve ever seen is a public restroom at a rest stop.

  98. jacque says:
    September 7, 2009 at

    I had to use the bathroom at a laundry mat. I didn’t want to. It was so disgusting with toilet paper on the floor,dirty sink and the toilet didn’t look like it was every cleaned. The smell was awful too! Thanks!

  99. Carol says:
    September 7, 2009 at

    I went with my husband to drop our son off for a week at Boy Scout Camp, and the bathroom for the general public was just filled with spiders, spiderwebs, and a disgusting smell.

  100. lea says:
    September 7, 2009 at

    I was just at an outdoor arts and music festival [All Points West] that lasted 3 days. Let’s just say that it rained two of the days and conditions weren’t exactly clean. I wanted to wash everything in sight.

  101. amy delong says:
    September 7, 2009 at

    We have Musicfest here in PA,and their bathrooms are NASTY!

    ardelong2(at)gmail(dot)com

  102. Teresa says:
    September 7, 2009 at

    In the bathroom on a Riverboat Cruise with 250+ people! UGH!

  103. Brittney says:
    September 7, 2009 at

    fast food restaurants are the worst

  104. Amanda S. says:
    September 7, 2009 at

    The bathrooms at the campground we stayed at this summer were pretty gross! Glad I brought my flip flops for the shower, lol!

  105. Kimberly says:
    September 7, 2009 at

    The grossest place I’ve ever been was the home of a family member who was a hoarder. They wouldn’t throw anything out. ANYTHING. There was literally no room to move because there was trash all over. I felt like I needed a hazmat suit.

  106. Michele D. says:
    September 7, 2009 at

    The grossest place that I have ever been has to be when I went with my brother to work as a water treatment specialist. The boiler rooms and other places that we had to go made me want to just burn all of my clothes right then and there.

  107. Lisa says:
    September 7, 2009 at

    The most disgustingly germy place I’ve been is the bathroom on a bus. UGH! And since my seat was like 2 rows in front of the bathroom…you can smell everything!! Thank goodness I had perfume in my purse to use as air freshener.

  108. Jennifer M says:
    September 7, 2009 at

    A bathroom we had to use, at a gas station–it was literally painted with someone’s poop.

  109. Sarah Z says:
    September 7, 2009 at

    A bathroom (essentially an outhouse) in Mexico – needless to say, I decided to hold it!

  110. Kathy K says:
    September 7, 2009 at

    The bathrooms at a state campground I went to recently were horrible! And the smell??? Ewwww.

  111. mineola says:
    September 7, 2009 at

    Greyhound bus, on the way from Albuquerque to New Orleans in 1998. A suit made of Lush soap may not have been enough! To make matters & smells worse the driver kept dousing the aisle with horrid chemical laden probably toxic spray. Egads!

  112. Jayna says:
    September 7, 2009 at

    My husband’s apartment before I moved in…

  113. Yvonne Butler says:
    September 7, 2009 at

    Places like McDonalds, etc. These bathrooms are the worst, especially those that are on the other like many of the older fast food places are. Thanks for the entry.

  114. mim says:
    September 7, 2009 at

    Worst place I’ve been was not on an airplane or restaurant–seems I’ve lucked out with those! Nope, it’s a tie between one train out of NY which had a clogged toilet (I’m getting the EW!s just thinking about it!) and one porta-potty at camp which was too dark for me to notice that someone had ‘missed’ (ew! ew! ew!!!).
    Now I feel like a shower. Hope I win!

  115. Julie K says:
    September 7, 2009 at

    We drove to Florida a few times from New England and some of the rest areas along the way were…. SCARY! I love Lush soap, thanks!

  116. Jaime P says:
    September 7, 2009 at

    We were traveling from the Western Slope of Colorado to Reno and only our luck, every rest stop we ended up at was a filthy mess, I mean MESS! We joked about taking pictures of each one and publishing a book on the worst REST STOPS IN THE WEST!

  117. Darcy B says:
    September 7, 2009 at

    We went camping once when I was a kid–we went on a long hike–and were in the middle of nowhere when we found an outhouse–we wanted to use it–but when we opened the door–we almost fainted from the stench!

  118. Kate says:
    September 7, 2009 at

    Yeah, most porta-pottys would fit that description! Some with poop on the seat.. ugh!

  119. Terry C says:
    September 7, 2009 at

    I’ve been in more than a few service station bathrooms that were quite nasty.

    braaisjo at gmail dot com

  120. Chrysa says:
    September 7, 2009 at

    I think a gas station bathroom would top the list.

  121. Sue S says:
    September 7, 2009 at

    I’ve seen some really great restaurants with really disgusting bathrooms that ruined my appetite.

  122. Megan Prentice says:
    September 7, 2009 at

    Recently had to use the men’s bathroom at a gas station, because someone was already in the ladies room. It looked like that bathroom had never been cleaned.

  123. Julie says:
    September 7, 2009 at

    Many years ago we went to a pizza place that was attached to a bowling alley. Walked in to use the ladies room and quickly walked back out. It was horrendous-and it was a Little Caesers
    pizza place too

  124. Aaron says:
    September 7, 2009 at

    Public Restrooms at South of the Border in South Carolina. If you’ve ever been there, you know what I’m talking about.

  125. Jeff M. says:
    September 7, 2009 at

    The dirtiest place I have been to was when one of my renters moved out and left the place a mess. They had only lived there for a few months but they had never taken out the trash, it was just strewn around the apartment in piles. I won’t go into gross disgusting details but it took me 2 weeks and $2000 to get the apartment back into a shape that I could rent it again! Thank you for the chance to win! Good luck everyone, Jeff

  126. Jaclyn Reynolds says:
    September 7, 2009 at

    A couple motels we’ve been in while traveling.

  127. Tricia says:
    September 7, 2009 at

    One of the rest stop restrooms had stuff everywhere. It was quite disgusting.

  128. Kristy says:
    September 8, 2009 at

    Definitely need it at work. People tend to use all the soap and then forget to replace it. Nothing like using a bathroom that the public uses as well when theres no soap.. YIKES!

  129. Vicki Andrew says:
    September 8, 2009 at

    I can’t believe how dirty my local grocery store rest room is, they say they clean it hourly but each time I have gone in it has never looked it

  130. Elizabeth A says:
    September 8, 2009 at

    The germiest place? A port-a-potty (anywhere, really), but specifically at a Renaissance Faire I went to years ago!

  131. Melinda says:
    September 8, 2009 at

    We love visiting Washington, DC – but I have to say – it leaves you with some pretty germy hands! Between the metro handles to hold onto, the doorknobs that have been touched by thousands of people each day, the street vendor chili and cotton candy — yep, pretty nasty!

  132. Pamela says:
    September 8, 2009 at

    Well I work as a neuro nurse with patients who do not always have control of their bowel or bladder functions. Nuff said!!
    Thanks so much.

  133. Deborah R says:
    September 8, 2009 at

    My hubby likes to race gokarts. The tracks are at least six hours away, so he likes to make a long weekend out of it. He also likes to camp at the track, which everyone does. I went with him once. There’s only one ladies room at the track and no one cleans it during the long weekends. I can’t share more info because I’m starting to feel a little queezy thinking about it. Suffice to say I don’t go with him any more unless he’s willing to stay at a nearby hotel.

  134. Susan Smith says:
    September 8, 2009 at

    A local store I went to only had a single bathroom and it was gross.

  135. Leslie S. says:
    September 8, 2009 at

    I would have to say it a local gas stations outdoor bathroom.I physically got ill after just opening the door.Thanks!

  136. tanya a says:
    September 8, 2009 at

    A street taco stand in Mexico where they let me use the employee bathroom. A disgusting toilet, no water, and a wastebasket full of used toilet paper. Not to mention what was on the floor. Need I say more?

  137. David Richardson says:
    September 8, 2009 at

    I worked at an Interstate 95 rest area for 2 years. Not really nice.

  138. Mary M says:
    September 8, 2009 at

    A “stand up” (on little pads) toilet for women in Italy.
    Yuck.

  139. Jennifer Hessel says:
    September 8, 2009 at

    We have a local park that has the worst bathroom facilities. They say there are cleaned daily but it is either a lie or there are some horrible people who do not respect their community enough to leave the bathroom somewhat useable.

  140. Julie says:
    September 8, 2009 at

    I would have loved 13 Soap at the casino the other day. Sat down, pushed a button – and the button was wet :( yuk!!!

  141. Joanna Smith says:
    September 8, 2009 at

    My husband and I when we were dating used to vacation at Cape Cod. We didn’t have a lot of money at the time, so we used to camp at this lovely campground in Welfleet, MA which is on the Cape. Now so as to not put down the campsite, it was a gorgeous spot to camp, but as you know camping is rough, and so were the facilities there. There was only 2 shower stalls for the entire campground. It was a small family run campground so when I use the term “roughing” it, I mean that literally. I think bathing in the fresh water ponds was much more sanitary than those old, moldy, and most definitely germ infested showers they had the campgrounds. I truly could have used this LUSH natural antibiotic travel soap for those camping trips. I used to wear my flip flops in the shower but I swear I might as well have been barefoot because I just feel the germs runneth over my feet as the water splashed on them. Thanks so much for the chance to enter.

  142. DanV says:
    September 8, 2009 at

    This would have been useful in the last gas station bathroom I was in

  143. Angela Palmer says:
    September 8, 2009 at

    The basement at my job is horrible. It is used for equipment storage and is dirty, moldy and full of who knows what. My boss actually calls it “the stinky room”. Blech.

  144. carol ~ says:
    September 8, 2009 at

    The worst place I have ever been is the Munich train station. It was so unbelieveable! As you walked around you could see urine and blood spots on the floor! There was a lady with a badly infected foot wrapped in rags and others who were clearly sick or ill. It was something.

  145. Carla says:
    September 8, 2009 at

    Public restrooms. Especially when people are too lazy to flush the toilet!

  146. Mya Brooks says:
    September 8, 2009 at

    A motel right in the middle of Nebraska…LOL It was a prostitution hang-out, and let’s just say none of us got ANY sleep that night… lol ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!

  147. Gloria says:
    September 8, 2009 at

    The dirtiest place was a friend’s house my twin sons stayed over night at. When I went to pick them up I went to their door and when the mother opened it, the place was covered with clothes and junk all over. There was no place to walk. So I just stood there and waited for them to come.

  148. Sarah C says:
    September 8, 2009 at

    Three words – Gas station bathroom. Nuff said.

  149. Brooke says:
    September 8, 2009 at

    That’s tough.. It’s a draw between a few places in Mexico and my trip to Peru… Peru is actually very very clean however, once you leave the tourist area it isn’t… Bathrooms with no towels or TP (you bring your own or have to pay for it)… It was amazing how long you could hold your pee…

  150. Wendy says:
    September 8, 2009 at

    Well, there was this bathroom, see, in a small dingy Mexican restaurant down in the city… The food was great, but we barely had any appetite left.

  151. Laura Wright says:
    September 8, 2009 at

    We could have used all 13 bars of 13 Soap Unlucky for Dirt when the hotels in Angkor Wat, Cambodia, were full and we spent the night in a gardener’s cottage which looked as if it had not been cleaned for decades. We slept (cat napped) fully clothed amidst the jungle noises.

  152. Lentil says:
    September 8, 2009 at

    Most disgusting place: the bathroom of a ferry during a VERY rough crossing of the English Channel.

  153. jill klein says:
    September 8, 2009 at

    My daughter like to volunteer. She is 13 and volunteers at retirement home and with wild animal rescues…….Those both are very germy environments!

  154. Candace says:
    September 8, 2009 at

    Soap? Hmm I would have to say.. after anytime i get home from work, working at a gym there is all kinds of germs!

  155. Lee says:
    September 8, 2009 at

    New York City 42nd St. public bathroom. OH MY GAWD. The toilets were supposed to have these plastic covers that advanced after each person used them, but obviously they broke about 10 years ago. Public bathrooms in NYC are never clean, but this was awful and I was about to wet my pants. Urgh.

    Lee :(

  156. Veronica Garrett says:
    September 8, 2009 at

    I cold have used it after my husband got back from a hunting trip. The camper was totally grms and yuck.

  157. Sand says:
    September 8, 2009 at

    It was a port-a-potty at an outdoor festival in the summer.

  158. Charlene Kuser says:
    September 8, 2009 at

    We went on a trip recently and stopped at a grocery store,
    that was the nastiest,filthiest bathroom,I have ever seen.
    It really had a bad smell and made me gag.I called the health department when I got to the hotel

  159. Heather C says:
    September 8, 2009 at

    Oh, that would be the shower facility at the end of the hiking trail (the one that has you out hiking and camping for two weeks?). Oh, yeah. Disgusting.

  160. michelle says:
    September 8, 2009 at

    We were staging our background cars in a garage on the west side of Chicago. As a PA I wasnt allowed to leave and I had to use the restroom. Keep in mind Chicago isn’t the best place to find a public bathroom to begin with. The bathroom in the garage was the most disgusting bathroom I’d ever seen. It was a mens only room, urinals and one toilet divided by brick walls without doors. All surfaces were covered in slime and feces and who knows what else. It was like a scene out of the original Saw room. A blatent contrast to the nice clean concrete of the garage itself. The boys warned me not to go in there but I couldnt hold it. Girls cant find an alley and go discretely so I sucked it up, (literally, i held my breath) went in and made sure not to touch anything. Of course the sinks didnt work, so a bar of 13 soap with a bottled water would have been welcome!!

  161. michelle says:
    September 8, 2009 at

    that was an incorrect email so i resubmit. sorry guys!

    We were staging our background cars in a garage on the west side of Chicago. As a PA I wasnt allowed to leave and I had to use the restroom. Keep in mind Chicago isn’t the best place to find a public bathroom to begin with. The bathroom in the garage was the most disgusting bathroom I’d ever seen. It was a mens only room, urinals and one toilet divided by brick walls without doors. All surfaces were covered in slime and feces and who knows what else. It was like a scene out of the original Saw room. A blatent contrast to the nice clean concrete of the garage itself. The boys warned me not to go in there but I couldnt hold it. Girls cant find an alley and go discretely so I sucked it up, (literally, i held my breath) went in and made sure not to touch anything. Of course the sinks didnt work, so a bar of 13 soap with a bottled water would have been welcome!!

  162. dawn says:
    September 8, 2009 at

    It had to be a rest stop on the way to Arizona. It was so gross. Everyone had to take a step back and keep driving to the next one.

  163. JuliaA says:
    September 9, 2009 at

    most disgustingly germy? maybe the bathrooms at highway rest stops. ew.

    or maybe the apartment of an ex. he was really gross.

  164. PatH says:
    September 24, 2009 at

    I love France, but the turkish toilets are UNBEARABLE. I recommend avoiding that exotic experience if you can.

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    November 6, 2009 at

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