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Andrex Moist Toilet Tissues
by Abski2001
Andrex Moist Toilet Tissues
I had seen these advertised a few times on the tv and never really fancied them particularly, however when daydreaming around Asda I saw that these were on offer for £1 a packet and I decided to give them a try for something different.
The Andrex moist toilet tissues, or washlets as ... they are more recently called, come in a plastic solid container that is a pearly white colour and slightly frosted. The container is opened by pressing the front of the box with a push mechanism. The box is quite small and compact and sits nicely on my bathroom shelf, with approximate dimensions of 15 cm x 10 cm x 4 cm. The plastic pack has the andrex branding which is blue and white wrapped around it.
The pack contains 42 individual moist toilet tissues, they are all neatly stacked much like a packet of face wipes. The washlets are intended to be used in addition to or in place of standard, dry toilet paper. Andrex claims that these washlets are more hygienic and leave you feeling cleaner than just ordinary toilet paper.
The wipes are moist to touch, but not saturated, just damp enough to clean yourself thoroughly. They are fragranced wipes and described as cotton fresh, they certainly smell fresh and clean and not unpleasant at all. The wipesrare pH neutral or balanced with means they shouldn't irritate you like some perfumed products do. I have not experienced and unpleasantness or problems using them.
I find these do make me feel a lot cleaner and fresher than using standard loo roll. They are kind and gentle as you would expect from an Andrex product and are fast drying which I was slightly worried about before using them, but the moisture content is just right. I haven't swapped from toilet roll to washlets, but they are definitely useful and pleasant to use every now and then.
A pack of 42 washlets has an rrp of £1.89 and of course they are often on special offer in supermarkets and shops. One wipe I find is enough and so they work out to be pretty good value. Overall I was very impressed with these once I got over the moist toilet tissue issue!
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Bodyform Normal
by trayrope
***This review is about periods, those of you who don't like this sort of stuff look away now and click 'very helpful' in 30 seconds (joke)***
There comes a time when young ladies need to go roller skating, kite surfing, rock climbing, giant wrestling and all other manner of highly strenuous activities. That time I am ... obviously talking about is when the lady in question is on her period. At that time a lady does not need to curl up on the settee and laugh at the chavs on Jeremy Kyle, eat lots of sweet things and have the men in her life be extra polite and agree with everything she says. Hang on I might have got those the wrong way around, unless sanitary products are imbibed with magical powers there is no way you would catch me up a mountain in roller skates.
When it comes to shopping for sanitary products I am firmly of the towels persuasion, my towels of choice are Always and Bodyform. When I was younger and my mother brought my toiletries for me she would buy me the cheapest products available, this was over 20 years ago so they were not at all comfortable or absorbent. Imagine a small, rough, mattress. This led me to dreading my period and I always swore to myself that when I was an adult I would take a week off work each month and stay in bed.
Not being able to hide away from the rest of the world I started to search for something more comfortable. The sanitary towels I currently have in a small decorative hat box in the bathroom window are Bodyform Normal; I paid £1.59 for a pack of 16 individually wrapped towels. Sanitary towels have changed a lot in the last 20 years, Bodyform has kept up with all the latest developments and the towels now boast improved absorption, that they are shaped to fit front and back and that they dry fast.
The sanitary towels are very easy to use, unwrap one, peel off the paper covering the sticky strip and press firmly into your underwear. The normal Bodyform towels do not have wings so there is no need to mess about wrapping them neatly around your underwear.
It is best to wrap your used sanitary towels in the plastic wrapper from the clean one you have just opened, I do not flush the towels down the toilet, and place it in the bin to be disposed off with the regular non-recyclable household rubbish.
I find the Bodyform sanitary towels very comfortable, they feel very soft on my skin and keep me feeling dry, clean and fresh during the time I am on my period. I like that the towels are very thin, this makes them very comfortable and feel as though they are not there at all. I have never had any problems with the towel moving once it is fixed in my underwear and I have never suffered any leakage.
Bodyform towels come in a variety of absorption levels, I find that Super ones are best for the first day of my period and at night and that Normal are fine for the rest of my period. There is no recommended amount of time to leave a towel between changing and I would say it is down to your own preferences, hygiene levels and period flow rate how often you change them.
In conclusion Bodyform are one of my preferred sanitary towel makes, I might not feel like rock climbing and kite surfing when I am on my period but if I wanted to I could without worrying about feeling uncomfortable.
Thank you for reading.
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Durex Play Tingle Lubricant
by chrisandmark
I had my first (and probably last!) weekend away without my partner a few weeks ago, despite having a wonderful time I really missed him - and from the naughty phone call he gave me on the Saturday night I'm positive the feeling was mutual. I actually couldn't wait to get home, and after mum offered to keep the kids for the night to ... allow me to unpack (a hell of a euphemism all things considered...) I decided to pop into Boots and see if I could pick up something a little 'interesting' for when I got home. Unfortunately Boots' range of sexy stuff was as poor as I had imagined it to be, so I grabbed a few Durex branded items and heading off to the checkout - and then home.
Tingle from the Durex Play range is a lubricant with a supposed added 'wow' factor, claiming to chill your bits to the point where they'll become uber-sensitive with the delicious tingle usually found only when purchasing gels from Ann Summers and the like at a vastly inflated cost. Durex have cleverly given the bottle an extreme phallic appearance with a curved close fitting lid; the design has changed somewhat since Dooyoo added their piccie and it's now much more fun looking, with brighter colours and generally a more aesthetically pleasing design. It still has the pump top (which doesn't work) but the rest of the bottle looks completely different.
You can use it two ways; to combat vaginal or anal dryness before and during sex, or as a sensation enhancer by applying to your sensitive bits. I don't suffer with vaginal dryness, and the anus is an exit not an entrance in my opinion, so Tingle was bought specifically with high expectations of getting the most from my partners touch on my body - and obviously for him to also experience the 'tingle'. After realising the pump wasn't going to dispense as much as a single drop into my hand I twisted the bottle apart completely to get to the gel - and was instantly stopped dead in my tracks by the distinct lack of any smell coming from the bottle. Anything that promises to make me tingle should smell of menthol or some other tingle-inducing cold aroma, this just smells like bog standard lube - admittedly Durex do say on the back of the bottle that this doesn't contain menthol, but I still expected some sort of cooling minty fragrance if only for the placebo effect.
As a lube it's great. The gel is smooth and wet, totally non-sticky with a gorgeously slippery feeling when applied to the skin. I'd already rubbed it onto my partner's penis when we had penetrative sex for the first time that day and could feel the extra smoothness from the moment he entered me, it felt nice enough but personally I prefer the initial feeling of tightness when we first start to have sex and Tingle is so wet that this sensation was lost. It reduces the feeling of friction which is a huge downside for me, although Mark enjoyed the very wet feeling and this unfortunately sped the process up slightly for him - leaving me orgasm-less and vowing not to use the product in this way again.
Afterwards, when we were ready to go again (not that we ever really stopped!), I grabbed the bottle of Tingle again and experimented with trying it out on different parts of my body. Yes, my body. Mark had had the best of the gel so far and I was determined to catch up as it were. The obvious points of application are the nipples and the clitoris, both (well all three if you count both nipples) of which convinced me that Tingle is an absolute waste of money as it did exactly nothing - oh, my nipples went hard but it was a February afternoon and very cold, if I'd rubbed shampoo into my nipples in that chill they'd have gone hard! The lube aspect adds to the experience of clitoral masturbation as the slippery and very wet feeling is absolutely luscious, unfortunately to bring me to climax meant the same level of finger action quite simply because there's no added tingle produced by the gel to enhance the feeling. Likewise Mark said he couldn't feel anything different when I gave him a hand job compared to if I'd used our usual oil.
Durex Tingle is water based so can be used safely with condoms, it's not a spermicide however so if you're a condom user you need to take the same amount of care as ever. As I've already mentioned it's free from menthol, frankly it needs some, and is suitable for vaginal, anal and oral sex - it tastes icky though so I certainly wouldn't recommend applying prior to a blow job! It washes off easily with plain water and doesn't stain fabric at all, it doesn't really dry on the skin so if you're planning to use it I'd suggest keeping a packet of baby wipes or similar next to the bed so you can dry yourself off a little before sleeping. You can't overdose on Tingle so feel free to use as much as you need/want, although slightly worryingly Durex proclaim that this product can slow down sperm so advise you to see your doctor before use if you are trying to conceive. If irritation occurs yo're advised to discontinue use, which is perfectly obvious to me as who wants an irritated fanny?!
I'm torn as to whether I recommend this, but in fairness I probably should despite my disappointing experience with it. It's sold as a lubricant and in this respect it works brilliantly, the silky smooth wetness produced would ease the discomfort of being dry 'down there' during sex and it's long enough lasting that I doubt anyone would need to pull out and reapply during the actual act. I suspect it would make anal sex a damned sight more comfortable for occasional partakers (ie. those who don't see the need for owning a butt plug) as this sex is obviously going to be a dryer experience - as well as reducing the friction to a level where you don't risk damaging your condom, which I believe is a common worry if you enjoy anal.
A 50ml bottle of Durex Tingle costs £1.99, which is on a par with most lubes - the relatively low price makes me think that even Durex don't believe their own hype about the tingle aspect as they're a horribly greedy company and I suspect that if they actually thought it worked as a sensation enhancer they'd have added a couple of quid to the price! Mind you, in their defense they've created a bottle which can be used as an impromptu dildo so all is not lost...
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