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09-28-05, 09:32 AM
For the past year, I've probably used every type of disposable wipe and washcloth out there, wet ones, purell, charmins freshmates, splash and go, and the latest, cottonelle fresh.
Now, my testing procedure consisted of a full body wipe down with said product, followed by another wipe down with a wet napkin, then drying off with paper towels and a fan in a private bathroom.
Now, the splash and go was ok, kind of like stringy paper towels, smelled a little too much like disinfectant though.
Purell, oh man what the hell, these were little pieces of what seemed like tissue paper and it smelled just like alcohol mixed with lysol. And they were tiny. I actually lost 2-3 of those between my arms.
The wet ones were ok, slightly thicker than purell, but still paper tissue like. Good smelling, cleaned relatively well. The product was hard to manipulate when soaked with water from the sink though. Use of the prouduct almost cost me a finger though. It came in one of those cylindrical tubes with the plastic sphincter at the top. You have to open the lid and manually push a corner of one of the towels through the sphincter initially to get it going. Now I know there's a big sign that says, "DO NOT INSERT FINGERS THROUGH THE HOLE" but I must not have seen that until the 4 plastic lips of said sphincter were tightly around my finger. The only problem is, you can't back your finger out w/o tearing the meat off it. So I had to get 2 needle nose pliers and bend the tabs all the way back in order to take my finger out. In the end, I ended up with a small blood blister on my right index finger. Damn you!
The charmins freshmates came in a discrete white box. It cleaned relatively well but felt like a flakey version of bounty. It smelled fresh, which I didn't mind. The only problem was that it tended to start breaking apart after 2-3 wipes, especially when wet.
So I went and picked up 3 packs of cottonelle fresh wipes on a whim. They come in a pretty girly box with rounded corners in sky blue, seafoam green, lavender, and white. I tried them this morning and let me say, they're the best I've ever used. They're flushable (but I throw them in the waste basket anyway), have a very light smell that reminds me of nail polish, and best of all, they have the right thickness, consistency and feel. It's like having a thick firm piece of bounty in your hand. cottonelle fresh wipes gave me the confidence to scrub as hard as I wanted to without fraying, pilling, or breaking apart when wet, and best of all, its non-toxic.
In the event of accidental ingestion (i.e., by children, pets, etc.), are Cottonelle Fresh® Folded Wipes non-toxic?
Like all wet wipes produced by Kimberly-Clark, Cottonelle Fresh® Folded Wipes are non-toxic by ingestion.
If you guys are looking for a real man's baby a$$ wipe, this is it. I only wish they would change the packaging so it could be like, milled out of a solid ingot of titanium or aluminium, or maybe molded out of carbon fiber. More manly scents would be nice too, like finish line degreaser or my fav, krytech M2 hybrid wax lube.
Now, my testing procedure consisted of a full body wipe down with said product, followed by another wipe down with a wet napkin, then drying off with paper towels and a fan in a private bathroom.
Now, the splash and go was ok, kind of like stringy paper towels, smelled a little too much like disinfectant though.
Purell, oh man what the hell, these were little pieces of what seemed like tissue paper and it smelled just like alcohol mixed with lysol. And they were tiny. I actually lost 2-3 of those between my arms.
The wet ones were ok, slightly thicker than purell, but still paper tissue like. Good smelling, cleaned relatively well. The product was hard to manipulate when soaked with water from the sink though. Use of the prouduct almost cost me a finger though. It came in one of those cylindrical tubes with the plastic sphincter at the top. You have to open the lid and manually push a corner of one of the towels through the sphincter initially to get it going. Now I know there's a big sign that says, "DO NOT INSERT FINGERS THROUGH THE HOLE" but I must not have seen that until the 4 plastic lips of said sphincter were tightly around my finger. The only problem is, you can't back your finger out w/o tearing the meat off it. So I had to get 2 needle nose pliers and bend the tabs all the way back in order to take my finger out. In the end, I ended up with a small blood blister on my right index finger. Damn you!
The charmins freshmates came in a discrete white box. It cleaned relatively well but felt like a flakey version of bounty. It smelled fresh, which I didn't mind. The only problem was that it tended to start breaking apart after 2-3 wipes, especially when wet.
So I went and picked up 3 packs of cottonelle fresh wipes on a whim. They come in a pretty girly box with rounded corners in sky blue, seafoam green, lavender, and white. I tried them this morning and let me say, they're the best I've ever used. They're flushable (but I throw them in the waste basket anyway), have a very light smell that reminds me of nail polish, and best of all, they have the right thickness, consistency and feel. It's like having a thick firm piece of bounty in your hand. cottonelle fresh wipes gave me the confidence to scrub as hard as I wanted to without fraying, pilling, or breaking apart when wet, and best of all, its non-toxic.
In the event of accidental ingestion (i.e., by children, pets, etc.), are Cottonelle Fresh® Folded Wipes non-toxic?
Like all wet wipes produced by Kimberly-Clark, Cottonelle Fresh® Folded Wipes are non-toxic by ingestion.
If you guys are looking for a real man's baby a$$ wipe, this is it. I only wish they would change the packaging so it could be like, milled out of a solid ingot of titanium or aluminium, or maybe molded out of carbon fiber. More manly scents would be nice too, like finish line degreaser or my fav, krytech M2 hybrid wax lube.