Not suitable for use on hairy men (Tesco Assorted Fabric Plasters)

Member Name: moo2moo

Product:	Tesco Assorted Fabric Plasters
Date:	27/09/09 (21 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Very sticky

Disadvantages: Very difficult to remove

T'was a quiet Saturday afternoon when all hell broke loose. One minute I was peeling potatoes ready for dinner and the next I was extracting the tip of my finger from the evil jaws of the potato peeler. Being medically trained (I have my Brownie First Aid Certificate) I grabbed a clean piece of kitchen towel, applied pressure and shouted for assistance. Assistance duly arrived in the form of an excited six year old. I dispatched her to the cupboard for the first aid kit.

First aid kit retrieved she spent a happy few minutes pawing through the contents to see what lay hidden in its depths. She finally located the box of Assorted Tesco Plasters and dumped them on the worktop. They're all oblong. I needed finger tip shaped plasters or the ones for knuckles that I could fold over to stem the bleeding which was incidently quite impressive from such a small cut. Plan B. I attempted to talk her through cutting two v shapes in the middle of one of the larger plasters to enable me to fold it round and over. Unfortunately she doesn't have the scissor control for that and the plasters were rather fiddly to cut which hindered her progresse. I couldn't do it as I'm right handed and that was the hand I'd managed to mutilate. We abandonned that idea.

Bigger problems came when she tried to open the individually sealed plasters, they're rather well sealed and far too tricky for a child to open in a sterile manner. The semi plasticy coating on the outer makes them hard to tear too and rather sticky when the fingers you're using are slick with blood. Eventually got one open, peeled back the overlaping sterile strips which covered the sterile non- sticky part of the plaster and applied to the area in need of attention. Job done.

Have to say I'm remarkably impressed by the adhesive quality of the plaster. Went to change the blood soaked dressing later in the evening to release the pressure a little and couldn't get it off, although the corners had peeled back a little the majority of the plaster was firmly stuck. Ended up yanking away at it which reopened the cut. It also left lots and lots of adhesive behind which if I wasn't applying another plaster would need scrubbing off. Not something you really want to do around a freshly healed cut. The alternative would be to leave it sticky to collect all manner of crumbs and debrix which again isn't overly hygenic.

The box contains 40 plasters in 3 sizes. 20x40mm, 20x70mm and 34x70mm. They're all usable sizes for adults although they're too big for using on very small children and too small for using on grazed knees and elbows. At £1.07 they're half the pirce of the branded equivalent and although not classed as "sensitive" they are latex free. The padded centre part looks big on the outer packaging but the contents are distinctly less cushioned but still comfortable.

For the sadistic amongst you its well worth sticking over cuts on hairy men just to watch them wimper like girls as you rip the plaster off and a large chunk of hair out. DIY waxing without the wax.

Summary: A hair-ripping product