Uncomfortable Underparts! (Izal Medicated Strong Toilet Paper)

Member Name: LauraElliott

Product:	Izal Medicated Strong Toilet Paper
Date:	26/03/02 (1105 review reads)
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Advantages: Quite cheap (but compared with quality, so it should be), There are better alternatives, so at least you have a choice!, Cannot buy it in very many places

Disadvantages: Smells Awful, Very painful to use, Feels terrible

Izal toilet paper is one of the worst of its kind! The medicated loo roll is less than attractive in its dull green plain packaging. On the front of the packaging is a green cross, showing that it has been medically treated. They say that it is medicated on the wrapper, but to me it smells a bit bland and old fashioned. This is probably because even my grandparents remember using it when they were at school and the packaging or its contents haven't changed one bit. In fact my grandad was quite surprised that they were still selling it. He remembers back in the days where there was a little Izal toilet paper holder which you kept on top of the toilet, in a nice prim fashion. It was like the main focus point and attraction of the bathroom.


I'm sure that it isn't as hygienic as it may seem...to me the paper feels like something you would put on a baking tray...like greaseproof paper. I am sure that it would be good for tracing with as it is so thin and see through. I can't imagine using it for it's proper use, it just wouldn't work at all - it is not absorbent in the slightest. It is not like the soft toilet tissues of today, thank goodness. It is very much like what it says - paper. Stiff, like cardboard, it hardly moves, it is really scratchy and I dread to think how irritable it would make your skin after using it. There are two sides to the paper, one side is very slippery, shiny, oily and greasy and the other is quite dry and smooth. Yuck!


Some of the stockists include Superdrugs where it costs a bargain price of only 27p a roll! You would never be able to persuade me to use this disgusting paper on my lower region because I don't think that I could stand the pain, and with better alternatives, who needs such a historical concept when you can have fluffy, soft tissues.


Some of the Ingredients contained within Izal toilet paper are: Aqua, Propylene Glycol, Phenoxyethanol, Aloe Barbad
ensis, Polysorbate 20, Myrtrimonium Bromide, Methylparaben, Sorbic Acid, Disodium Cocoamphodiacetate, Disodium Phosphate, Parfum, Laurtrimonium Bromide, Citric Acid, Potassium Sorbate, Sodium Benzoate, Sodium Chloride.

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