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Comfort Concentrate Blue Skies
by zombieflesh
Doing the laundry is not exactly an exciting task, but there are certain things which can make it that little bit more enjoyable. For me, it's all about the different scents. I love using scented ironing water and choosing a new fabric conditioner can be just as fun as choosing a new perfume, and it's a lot cheaper! Comfort is a brand ... that I tend to favour for the simple reason of my mum always used to use it when I lived at home. I've used Comfort products for years since moving out on my own, and like to try out all the different varieties. I recently tried this Blue Skies version and it has immediately taken its place at the top of my favourites!
Comfort Concentrated Fabric Conditioner can be bought from most good supermarkets and many high street discount stores. I picked up a 455ml bottle from Poundland, where of course it cost me just £1.00. This is great value for money, and seeing as I only have to do the laundry for myself the smaller size suited me well.
Product description: "Comfort Blue Skies brings wonderful outdoor freshness right into your home."
This fabric conditioner comes in an ordinary plastic bottle that has a screw top plastic lid. The bottle is made of a solid white plastic which is somewhat annoying as it obscures vision and you can't see how much is left inside the bottle from looking at it, meaning I have to peer inside the top to guess how many uses I have left. The lid works as a measuring device for dispensing the correct amount of fabric conditioner per wash. This is very handy, and it has a neat little lip inside the lid so that any drips or spills get caught and end up back in the bottle rather than all over the floor. The conditioner itself has a nice bright blue colour and a gorgeous scent.
These days I always prefer to go for the more environmentally friendly products, and this concentrated fabric conditioner certainly fits the bill. Comfort Concentrate uses over 50% less packaging per wash compared to Comfort Regular, so not only are your clothes left feeling soft and smelling fresh, you're helping to care for the environment as well. This essentially means that less plastic is required for packaging and fewer lorries are required for transporting larger products.
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Directions for use: For large loads or extra softness and freshness, 6-7kg = 55ml (around 1.5 caps). For normal loads, 4-5kg = 35ml, (one cap). For hand washing, 10L =18ml, (around half a cap). To Use: Dose straight into your washing machine drawer. Wash hands after use. Do not pour directly onto fabrics. Keep away from eyes. If product gets into eyes rinse thoroughly with water.
This is very simple to use, just stick it into the fabric conditioner section of the washing machine's drawer and away you go. Because it is a concentrated liquid you don't need to use a great deal of it per wash, and so the bottle can last for ages. The fragrance is also concentrated and you get a lovely strong scent that really permeates the fabrics that you're washing. The fragrance is where this fabric conditioner really stands out against the rest. It has a beautiful fresh, clean smell that comes across as being natural and not at all chemical or synthetic - it's like a real breath of fresh air! I live by the seaside and the scent reminds me of a crisp sea breeze but without the saltyness. The fabric conditioner is strongly fragranced and perfumes the whole house as I dry my washing inside during the bad weather. My clothes and other bits of laundry always come out of the wash looking fresh, clean and well cared for. This fabric conditioner does seem to help keep the fabrics soft and in good condition after washing. As well as that, the scent really seems to last for a long time after drying, unlike some other conditioners. I still get that lovely freshly washed scent up to a week or so after I've had my laundered clothes stored away in the cupboard, and it's lovely that they retain the scent as I think it helps them to seem thoroughly refreshed and cleaned.
I paid £1.00 for my 455ml bottle of Comfort Concentrate fabric Conditioner, and it states on the bottle that this amount provides 13 washes. I only do one or two loads of laundry per week, so this lasts me for a reasonably long period of time, although I love getting the extra burst of the fresh scent that this conditioner has, so I often tend to use the larger recommended amount which means I can get through of bottle of it a bit quicker than usual. I think it is great value for money and does a wonderful job of refreshing and caring for my clothes as well as giving them a lovely fragrance. This is the nicest, freshest fabric conditioner that I have ever used and I will certainly be buying it again! I would recommend this fabric conditioner to anyone and give it a well deserved 5 stars.
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Oust Aerosol Clean Scent
by Stewwydablue
INTRODUCTION
I'm hoping that there will be some honest fellow dooyooers with enough moral courage to agree in the comments box, but is it just me or is it a "man thing" to do poos that smell so horrible that wallpaper starts to unpeel and that no insurance company in the world will provide a quote for the family pet ... canary's life expectancy? Come on, please not let it just be me.
I'm not really into candles so I tend to rely on good old fashioned aerosol air fresheners to cover my scent (if not the marks in the toilet pan - but that's the subject for a review about toilet duck - watch this space!) and reduce the chances of my children wanting to leave home to escape my foul fumes. We tend to buy whatever is either on offer or just easily available, and for the last few months we've been using the Oust Clean Scent air freshener. Here's how my family's sense of smell has taken to it.
The product
In a predominantly white spray tin, the 300 ml "clean scent" version costs anything from £1 in Asda to just over £2 elsewhere. It claims not to mask bad smells (in the way that old spice used to hide my teenaged insecurities) but effectively batter them out of the air and throw them to your carpet in a sleeper hold that Big Daddy would have been proud of. It involves some quite clever science, but the particles of the air freshener "lock on" to bad smell particles and if these bad smells are bacterial, then there is a substance in the spray that kills them, thus killing the smell also. Being a bit unsure about this chemical warfare taking place over and onto my carpet and the potential for staining, I tested it on a Man Utd shirt on a back alley washing line. It is with both regret and relief that I can report that the shirt didn't stain, so my carpet must be safe too.
Opinion
The acid test for me is whether or not the air freshener covers up the scent of my man poo. It certainly does, and I think it does a better job at masking my man poo miasma than the Airwick apple and honeysuckle fresh n up that this air freshener was bought to replace does. My only drawback with spray type air fresheners is that I hate walking through a room that's just been sprayed - it chokes me and I don't like it landing on my clothes in case people catch a whiff and think that I've been using air freshener as a deodorant.
I'm happy to overlook being suffocated by walking through the mist with this air freshener though - it does such a good job at getting rid of bad smells that I can put up with that. As I said above, it doesn't just mask smells with a heavy cloying sickly sweet nuclear strength perfume, it goes all planet Zanussi and uses a clever bit of chemistry to kill the smells off for good. Don't get me wrong, it is scented, but it's a natural smell and doesn't smell out of place in the house.
Five stars from me, thanks for reading.
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Spring Force Toilet Tissue
by ms_123
There are some things that I don't like to spend a lot of money on. One of these is toilet tissue - yes, comfort is important but I also like to bear in mind that these tissues are just going to be flushed down the toilet! For a number of years now I have been buying Tesco Value toilet tissue. This was extremely cheap though not the ... greatest product to use as it was quite thin and scratchy. Still, given it's cheap price I continued to buy this. Late last year Tesco stopped making the larger 12 pack of these, instead making the rolls in the 4 pack bigger but also ramping up the price significantly from around 45p for a 4 pack to around £1.30. It was then that I noticed Springforce toilet tissues, which are a Tesco own discount brand product. These come in a pack of 9, which I think is more convenient and also when looking closely at the price per sheet this actually work out cheaper than Tesco Value toilet tissues.
The sheets are packaged in a bright plastic wrapper with colourful flowers on the front. Each sheet in the roll contains an average of 210 sheets of 2 ply tissue. Taking the roll out of the packaging I was pleasantly surprised at the thickness of it. Compared to the Tesco value brand the roll had a lot more 'bounce' to it and the tissue felt softer. Each tissue sheet is patterned with a diamond pattern. The tissues themselves are white in colour and I believe this is the only colour available in this range so if you like to co-ordinate your loo roll with your bathroom colour scheme then this may not be for you.
When in use I find that these are a lot softer on the skin than the Tesco Value ones and they also don't disintegrate when wet. Don't get me wrong, these are nowhere near as soft as the premium brands such as Andrex but at a fraction of the price these are decent enough. I also suffer from a dust allergy and hayfever so am constantly blowing my nose. I mainly use tissue for this but on occasion have resorted to using loo roll (it's convenient to hang off the pole on the headboard!) and have found it to be quite soft and doesn't cause the skin on my nose to flake. I have also used it to mop up small spillages in the bathroom and in this case found it to be surprisingly absorbent.
It is reassuring to see that the tissues carry the FSC logo on them. This means that they are approved by the Forestry Stewardship Council which guarantees that the wood used to make this product comes from forests which are well managed according to strict environmental, social and economic standards.
Overall I have to say I am quite impressed with this offering from the Springforce range. The tissues are soft, absorbent and reasonably priced. You can't ask for more than that!
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