Is it pointless? (Cotton Wool)

Member Name: Claribella

Product:	Cotton Wool
Date:	27/01/09 (69 review reads)
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Advantages: Easy on a little baby's bum.

Disadvantages: Lot's.

Before I start I'd just like to say 'Who in God's name put in a request for this?'. What a boring thing to review and here I am reviewing the stuff. Strange!

When I think of cotton wool I am reminded of a little porcelain ornamet on my mum's dresser which was full of cotton wool balls in an array of pinks, purples and whites. I would sit on the end of her bed and watch her put a little Johnsons baby lotion on one and remove her eye makeup with it. As I got older I remember sneaking into her room and stealing a few because I didn't want to spend my hard earned cash on such a thing. I have since carried on the legacy of removing make up with a bit of cotton wool and baby lotion.

What is it with cotton wool though? First of all it's something that feels pretty darn weird. It's like Marmite, you either love it of hate it. I know people that have huge phobia's and won't go anywhere near the stuff. How weird! It does make me wonder what happened in their childhood to pick up such a phobia.
Secondly it has to be one of the most annoying things ever. If you've ever had a child then you will understand exactly what I'm about to say and if you haven't had a child then you will probbly understand too. So you've got this huge poopy nappy infront, you know the one that a newborn baby spits out when it's first born? It's black and sticky and you are suppose to clean it off. The hospitals prefer you to use cotton wool on a newborns bum so you comply as it's your first child and you don't know that you can do what you want because it's your child............back to the scene though.............you have nappy off and legs in the air (not you ofcourse but your baby) and you ask your partner to hand you the cotton wool and water. He hands you the water then he puts a tiny bit of cotton wool in the palm of your hand. Not a cotton wool pleat or a big piece off a roll but a cotton wool ball! You look at him as if he's delutional but don't want to cause a row and continue on in your mission for a clean botty. You place the cotton wool in the water and it shrinks you squeeze off the access water and it shrinks some more. You are left with a piece of cotton wool the size of a nail and are trying to wipe away the stickiest most clingiest poo in the world. You end up using tonnes of cotton wool and your fingers are covered in poo. What a success!!
What I'm trying to say is 'It shrinks!'. Even if you take a huge amount, it's just never enough because it ends up folding together and sticking and not really doing a good job.

Anyway after that little moan I will just say that cotton wool comes in three different forms as far as I'm aware:
Balls.
As you can probably tell these are my worse out of he three categories. They are too small to do anything with apart fom wiping your babies eyes but as soon as your baby has grown a little they become pointless.

Pleats.
These are slightly better and bigger. They comei a bag and you get a bit of cotton wool which has a perferation on it so it's easy to tear although I don't think it's that easy especially with one hand.

Rolls.
These are the best as you can take as much as you need although in my house this didn't last long.

You can get different qualities of cotton wool. I hae experienced the really thin ones which are absolute and utter rubbish. You end up using so much and your roll is gone within days. The thicker cotton wool is better but of course you can't tell what quality you are going to get until you've bought it and by then it could be too late.

It's relatively cheap and will cost around 99p for a bag of my personal favourites, the balls of course! (I'm being sarcastic!).

Anyway there you have it; my little moan about cotton wool!

Summary: A real pain in the backside.