Life Is A Breeze (Bounce Tumble Dryer Sheets)

Member Name: Emmald

Product:	Bounce Tumble Dryer Sheets
Date:	11/06/09 (125 review reads)
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Advantages: Adds a wonderful smell to your laundry

Disadvantages: A bit pricey

I always thought that whoever invented the tumble dryer deserved a medal but when Proctor and Gamble introduced Bounce Tumble Dryer sheets that was just about the icing on the cake.
Weather permitting most of us like nothing better than to see our laundry blowing in the warm breeze, drinking in heaps of fresh air but when the rain comes down or we desperately need to dry that shirt then we automatically resort to the tumble dryer.

Proctor and Gamble have packed these single use tumble dryer sheets into small gaily coloured boxes and they have ensured that we can easily access just one sheet at a time to put in with our wet washing.
There are two fragrances, one called Summer Breeze and another called Spring Feeling - Either or make the laundry smell beautifully fresh.

Each single Bounce sheet looks much like a wet wipe, maybe slightly thicker. The sheet is coated with a fabric conditioner and some special fabric softening agents.
Slip a sheet out of the box and it has quite an overpowering fragrance, fresh and floral.
The idea is that you place just one sheet in with a dryer load of washing, as the Bounce sheet circulates with the laundry then the fragrance that the sheet has been pre-soaked in makes contact with your wet laundry and is absorbed into the mixed fabric.
As the laundry drying process takes place the Bounce sheet dries out too and by the time the cycle has reached an end you are left with a sheet of lint that looks slightly the worse for wear and a pile of laundry that smells beautiful.

Bounce sheets may be a bit on the pricey side at around £3.50 for a pack of 40 sheets but if you intend tumbling the washing along with a sheet then there is no real need to use any fabric conditioner in the wash programme.
The Bounce sheets soften the fabric automatically and I find that once the washing is dry the Bounce combats a build up of static electricity and makes a major difference to the size of the ironing pile.
Anything cotton may need a quick rub over with the iron but the remainder comes out all but crease free.

Proctor and Gamble developed a slogan for the Bounce sheets - Brings the outdoors indoors -
I agree, one hundred percent that the laundry smell wonderful when you take it out of the tumble dryer but I still don't think that the smell matches that good old smell of fresh air.
I would go as far as saying that there may be some who would find the fragrance on the tumble dryer sheets too pungent.

I read a handy little tip the other day, take a new Bounce sheet from the box and put it into the corner of your lounge, the fragrance from the sheet will fill your room like an air freshener.
Sadly after you have used the Bounce sheet it has served its purpose and there is only one place left for it - the waste bin.
The sheet comes out of the tumble dryer in one piece and on the odd occasion when it has had some fragrance left on it I have put it into one of my clothes drawers to get the last from it.
I wouldn't think that the used sheets could be recycled and I can't foresee Proctor and Gamble designing a refill solution, but then again you never know.

When the sun shines the box of Bounce tumble dryer sheets stay firmly in the cupboard but if the dryer has to be switched on then count me in.

Summary: A good way of having fresh smelling laundry on a rainy day.