Comfort Pulls a Fast One (Comfort Fast Dry Fabric Conditioner)

Member Name: sandrabarber

Product:	Comfort Fast Dry Fabric Conditioner
Date:	25/11/03 (396 review reads)
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Advantages: smells nice, gentle on skin

Disadvantages: expensive, doesn't work

When I saw Comfort Fast Dry on the shelves at Tesco I had to try it. I?m a sucker for trying anything new anyway, but this fabric softener was very appealing to the eye in its bright yellow bottle, and most of all it was promising hitherto unoffered benefits. At £1.94 it was considerably more expensive than other Comfort softeners of the same price, but what the hell. If it did what it said it did, it might be worth it.

So what does it say it does then?

Well, as well as providing the lovely fabric softness and fragrancy we have come to associate with Comfort, as the name suggests, this one claims to dry your clothes faster. It does this, it says, by removing more water from your washing machine on the spin cycle than other fabric conditioners.

It doesn?t say how it does this, so I?m assuming it has some water repelling particles or some such thing to keep the moisture out of your clothes and into your washing machine?s emptying pipe.

Now I liked the sound of this because, firstly, I would save on electricity by using the tumble dryer less, and secondly, I wouldn?t have to worry about my non-tumblerable work clothes drying for Monday morning when I?d only washed them at 11 pm on Sunday night.

You use Comfort Fast Dry like any other fabric conditioner, i.e. by pouring the required amount into the fabric conditioner dispenser on your machine.

So I used my Comfort Fast Dry as instructed and then dried my wash partly on radiators, partly on an airer and partly in the tumble dryer, as usual.

Did it make a difference? No.

My wash needed the same amount of time as ever in the tumbler, the clothes on the airer dried at the same rate as normal, and the turn-ups on my work trousers were still damp next morning as usual.

On the plus side my clothes felt nice and soft smelt lovely, and didn?t cause any skin irritation. However, my normal favourite Comfort (Mandarin and Ylang Ylang) does all this for
52 pence per bottle less.

It might be my washing machine isn?t too good at extracting water, of course, but I don?t think so.

What I do think is that Comfort Fast Dry is a waste of money.

Time is an abstract concept and I think that Lever Faberge took this philosophical approach when using the word ?fast?.

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