Kohler K-8637-ST Touchless Foaming Soap Dispenser

This was delivered about a week ago.I have 3 other motion sensor soap dispensers, all Simple Human, and I paid a significant but reasonable amount of $ for each of them. One in a bathroom and 2 at kitchen sink, one being used for dish soap. All dispense gel soap with no foam capability. I love using them and really appreciate their reliability and battery life.I have a small child who is used to the foam soap as that is what we have in our other bathroom and what they had a school. I noticed with the gel soap, he was not rinsing nearly enough and was using the towel to dry still-soapy hands.I know Simple Human has a foaming model but it requires refill soap cartridges. That foaming dispenser is somewhat pricey, which I could see paying, but with the soap refill cartridges, I could see the potential cost being a long term expense.I saw this Kohler model on Amazon and was impressed that it can do gel or foam, plus it was about half the price of the SH models.I have been using it on the medium foam setting for about a week, now, with a foaming liquid soap (Dial Antibacterial) product. It has been working pretty well and responds quickly to the approach of your hand. The nozel has clogged 2x but is very easy to remove, rinse, and replace- it just pops off and back on. I noticed that the foam I was getting also felt a little dry. I added a small amount of water to the reservoir and I has been smooth sailing ever since.Overall, very pleased.

Wow! I bought this and immediately fell in love! Worked great, for about 4 weeks. Then it stopped sending out foam. You could hear the motor, see the air moving but no liquid/foam. I removed the filter, cleaned it. Tried soaking it in vinegar. Nothing helped. I now use it without the filter, no foam but a trickle of liquid soap. I’m so disappointed. Bought 2 more for Christmas presents that can not be returned. I thought with the Kohler name it would be great. It is not. Save your money!

I like the concept and value and that it takes both liquid soap and foaming soap. However, it gets clogged up at the nozzle and needs to be soaked or scraped to work again. That tends to lessen the hands free concept. The light turns on when the motion detector turns on and gives you soap which is nice if it’s at night and you are washing your hands. I wish that lasted a little longer so you had time to rinse then before the light went out on you. It’s worth the price and does what it says. The motion detector has been appropriately sensitive and not too active. I’ve been pleased but gave it fewer stars because of the clogging issue. It’s been a real problem for me lately and I haven’t had this long. I mostly like using it for the foaming soap.

Very slow. The light does not work as it's supposed to. sometimes it comes on other times it does not. I specifically got it so my kids would know how long to wash their hands. Batteries drain quickly. Would not purchase again.

I just got this soap dispenser and so far I'm very happy with it. I have it set for maximum foam and it works well with Mountain Falls Antibacterial Foaming Hand Soap, Fresh Pear, 32 Fluid Ounce. The built-in light makes it super easy to see the level of soap at a glance. The unit itself is very attractive and the handsfree design is fantastic. The top lid has a gasket so if you need to change the batteries which is located on the bottom of the unit, you could flip it upside down without having to worry about the liquid soap leaking pouring back out.Update: So it's been almost a year now and it's still working great but to get the best foaming action the batteries need to be fairly fresh. Once the battery power gets low the "pump" action gets weaker which reduces the foaming action which cause a slightly watery foam.It's April 2021 and this thing still works! Make sure to wipe the sensor and dispenser nozzle cover every so often for best performance.

Received product and wanted to use this as a foaming hand soap dispenser in the kitchen. It is actually useless as a foaming hand soap dispenser. There are a few issues:1) The bubbles in the foam are too big. This causes the bubbles to stick to the underside of the dispenser nozzle. So you get very little soap in your hand.2) Since the soap bubbles stick to the underside of the nozzle, they get in to the part of the dispenser where the hand sensor is. This makes it such that it can't see your hand any more to get soap. Which leads me to issue #3...3) Not a whole lot of soap comes out, even when the dispenser is set to it's maximum setting.All 3 of these issues culminates in it being pretty much worthless for foaming hand soap...the bubbles are too big, which causes it to stick to the underside of the dispenser nozzle...and not a whole lot of soap comes out. Since the sensor is now blocked, you can't activate it again to get more. So basically, a small amount of soap is stuck to the dispenser and you can't get more.After emptying the dispenser of the foaming soap, I put normal soap in to it and then I set the dispenser to dispense normal soap. This setting works okay. I still feel like the amount of soap it dispenses, even when set to it's maximum setting, is too little. Since it works okay as a normal soap dispenser, i'm giving it 2 stars instead of just one.