I bought these large oval double faced cotton wool pads from tesco priced at £1.60.
I thought they would come in useful as they are quite big in comparisson to your standard cotton wool pads so I thought I would use less - it's also double faced which is meant so the other side can be used too.

The pads come in a drawstring bag and it is pretty basic in design but in terms of buying cotton wool pads I thought any would do the job and that you wouldn't really come across any that are of bad quality.

But I have to say these are the worst i've ever come across and wouldn't recommend even bothering to purchasing these! They are ridiculous. On opening the bag as soon as I picked one up you could see the pads were falling apart, the layers of the cotton weren't even stuck together properly and you could actually see through the pads so I could not understand how they could state that these were double faced cotton wool pads and that you would be able to get two uses out of each pad.

Although I was dissapointed with the look of these pads, I still thought they would turn out ok to use.. but they get even worse on application. Any liquid applied to the cotton wool pad just goes right through it!
I bought them for using a cleanser and toner with it but the liquid did just go right through it and was pretty awful. Not only that, but the cotton wool pads themselves are so rough! Not what you would expect at all - they are scratchy and irritating to use and begin to fall apart.

I've still got the pack lying around, it comes in a pack of 50 but I can't see myself using them up they are that bad! and I tend not to waste anything but there is no point using these.

I thought I may have just picked up a bad bag but i've read other reviews have stated the same thing and given it 1 star so clearly its an issue.

I wouldn't even bother purchasing these, the idea was good and made it different to other cotton pads being so large and apparently double facing... but there's just no point if it can't be used well.

I also give the product 1 star and wouldn't purchase it again, I don't even think it should be on the shelves as it's such poor quality. Other ones are definitely better.

I've never wrote a review for a bad product before or given it such a low rating, but these are completly useless!

Thanks for reading :)
(this review may also be posted on ciao at some point)