B&M has shared a savvy kitchen decor hack that has gone viral among shoppers who are seriously divided over the impact it will have on the environment.
The popular discounted retailer regularly takes to social media to share how their affordable, yet often stylish, products can be used to give your home a trendy aesthetic. However, their latest home interior 'hack' seems using their £2.50 amber coloured soap dispensers has been questioned by shoppers.
Sharing a reel to Instagram, B&M shared how one home interior influencer 'elevated' their kitchen look by switching their simple hand wash and Fairy liquid bottles for the retailer's amber soap dispensers. The reel shows the influencer filling up B&M's bottles with the shop bought kitchen cleaning products before adding labels and new matte pumps for that extra stylish effect.
And while we all love a super easy hack to make our homes look more expensive for less, most shoppers seemed to agree that it seemed like an unnecessary waste of plastic, effort and expense.
B&M captioned their reel: "Elevate your kitchen with this super easy hack - cheap has never looked so expensive!!
Definitely a must have! (because who doesn't LOVE that no expense spared Look without the expense - that would be ME)!
@interior_by_lu. Hands up if you're going to try this?
The reel has since racked up over 10,000 likes and hundreds of comments who are debating whether the 'hack' is "gorgeous", or just "too much effort."
"Seems like a lot of effort to make more pointless plastic waste", said one unimpressed shopper.
"Not really a hack when all you’re doing is decanting something from one bottle into another. We need to find ways to stop using so much plastic and items and this endorses that", fumed a second.
"These look nice but seems rather wasteful and irresponsible. It would be nice to see B&M encouraging customers to go to a local refill shop or at least using the larger refill pouches which would be less plastic waste.", replied a third.
"So plastic into more plastic", questioned a fourth.
"Not exactly environmentally responsible", fumed a fifth.
Another shopper questioned if dispensing soaps from one bottle into another was really a hack, as it was "literally what the bottles were made for." Others queried how cheap the hack really was, especially after the added costs for the new matte black pumps and labels were added on.
Despite the criticism from some, there were a few who came to the retailer's defence by confirming that the bottles were in fact amber glass - and not plastic. Many even seemed to "love" the stylish trick and wanting to pick up some of the soap dispensers for themselves.
"I love these. Need some for the kitchen and bathroom downstairs", raved one shopper.
"Yes to this!!! X", complimented a second shopper.
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