Surprised to find Smart Toilet and Kitchen Towel topics, but none dedicated to the smaller towels everyone uses. Or maybe not everyone
So without further ado-do, here it is.
Push out your preferred or avoid-at-any-cost small sheet advice. From the indestructible, non-stick skin-lacerating Izal types to the atom-thin, finger-through-paper disappointments.
Starting with this one, from an initial marketing point of view:
Full unboxing and in-depth review to follow through after Iāve had a Tobyās All-you-can-eat and a few coffees.
So whatās your ring-of-fire rescue luxury? Reassuring spongey thickness or a moist application via hello-vera? Absorption excellence or something completely different maybe - bidet or just walk-away?
Comments below.
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Costcoās own brand Kirkland 3 ply is excellent. I believe itās Costcoās biggest seller. When you go there most people buy it as you can spot it in their trolleys. 10 packs of 4 rolls. Competitive price but not sure what it is atm as I havenāt got a recent receipt to hand.
Iād have made it myself, but itās the one area of my life where Iām pretty content. That, and Iād previously just used the subscriptions thread to discuss my toilet roll adventures.
Andrew supreme quilted is best. Thatās all there is to it.
Who Gives a Crap live up to their name. Itās crap.
The Costco one is now over rated. It used to be top of the plops, but now I personally think Charmin tubeless takes that spot.
Surprised to hear this. The premium bamboo variety is currently in my next shop I was going to give it ago. I had been trying out the Happy Panda one but that is awful. I tried their boxes of tissues and they were great, so had similar hopes for the bog roll. But alas the toilet paper is pretty weak and useless.
Iāve been using the bamboo rolls from Who Gives A Crap for a couple of years now and itās excellent. On a par with āpremiumā brands like old Andrew but no plastic waste.
The bamboo one is the one I had on subscription for a while. I really wanted to love it. I love everything about them. But the paper is just too thin and the individual sheets are too small, that you can neatly fold them into a plush thick square thatās large enough to wipe, which just encourages you to use more than you really need and is wasteful. It also makes their claim of sheets per roll versus other quite a bit misleading. And my fingers would often tear through the paper when I wipe.
After about a year of enduring for the planet, I went straight back to my trusted Andrex supreme quilter and have never left them again. The plastic outer packaging (which theyāre now starting to move away from, in addition to doubling roll length and flattening them for transit) isnāt that evil so long as you recycle it. The sheets are the right size, so I only need 4 folded into a square. And theyāre nice, thick, plush 4-ply.
Despite the rolls being smaller than who gives a crap, and having fewer sheets, they actually last longer just by the nature of being thicker and having a better sized sheet. I donāt need to be wasteful in using them just to make sure I get a good wipe.
Hmm perhaps I should go running back to my favourite Koala branded Charmin tubeless then. That has big chunky rolls and two sheets is often enough to get the tradesmanās entrance looking it bestā¦
Bamboo doesnāt work for toilet paper, I find. Itās a little lacking in the absorbency area, in a way that doesnāt matter for tissues.
I use Waitrose own brand myself. Canāt be doing with the cheap brands, itās a false economy. And the fancy brands, your Andrea and what have you, feel rather over engineered to me - itās all very well making an amazing one square, but when my natural inclination is to use more and fold it over, it feels like Iām massively wasting an expensive roll.
Might be worth trying to correct your natural inclination. It can save a small fortune.
I was a huge toilet paper waster in my youth. Iād just wrap dozens of sheets around my hand until I was satisfied and wipe. Wound up wasting half a roll on a single pee or poop.
Until I was old but not quite middle age old and noticed there were actual toilet roll instructions on the back. Took a while to form the habit, but Iāve adhered to it ever since. Only really works if the individual sheet is a suitable enough size that itās large enough once folded, but itās a profound change. Absorbs just as well, fingers donāt go through, and the paper usage is significantly less.
Three sheets is enough. Which matches up with the graphic you posted. But three sheets of Andrex quilted for example is far thicker than necessary, and needlessly expensive considering the cost per sheet.
