I love Your Nice Big ..... Mr Sainsbury. (Sainsbury's Cotton Wool Balls)

Member Name: Emmald

Product:	Sainsbury's Cotton Wool Balls
Date:	10/08/09 (95 review reads)
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Advantages: Soft cotton fibres.

Disadvantages: None.

Cotton wool used to be a luxury that you could do without but nowadays it can be bought quite cheaply and it has so many different uses that we are never without it.
I always keep a pack of pleated cotton wool which incidentally came in very handy recently when I looked after a friends hamster, the hamster apparently loves a few pieces of the soft cotton wool in his cage to use as bedding.

Then I buy a packet of Sainsbury's cotton wool balls to put in my make-up draw.
I have rather taken to the Sainsbury's cotton wool balls because they are good sized balls and they are super soft.
The pack of fifty Sainsbury's cotton wool balls come in a drawstring bag and they cost 87p for the pack. As long as you remember to re-draw the string at the top of the bag each time that you open it then the cotton wool remains clean, fresh and uncontaminated.
The Sainsbury's cotton wool balls may seem slightly more expensive than some brands but I have to say that some cotton wool balls can be too small, making them harder to handle and less able to absorb.

The Sainsbury's cotton wool balls are soft as down, as white as snow and they are very absorbent. If I am using them to remove my eye make up then one ball will absorb enough make up remover to ensure that I can do the job properly.
The fibres are soft and there are no hard gritty particles, some of the cheap and cheerful brands can be full of tough fibres which can feel scratchy on the skin.

But cotton wool is very versatile, not only do we use it for removing make up.
Cotton wool is an essential part of any nursery equipment, used for top and tailing, cleaning those newborns bottoms and wiping sleep away from tiny eyes.

I have often used cotton wool to stuff home-made pin cushions which have been given as gifts. It makes a superb stuffing and it is far softer than Kapok.
It is also ideal for stuffing those tiny knitted toys that feature in Jean Greenhowes knitting patterns, I have knitted quite a few mini teddy bears that have all been stuffed with the soft cotton wool. But these knitted toys are really for decorative purposes only, I would never be tempted to give them to a child to play with, if the cotton wool stuffing leaked out then it be dangerous if it was swallowed.

If you take a cotton wool ball and soak it in perfume ( maybe some that you have been given as a present and are not too keen on!) then put it into your vacuum cleaner bag, it is brilliant for keeping the vacuum cleaner smelling sweet.

Of course we must never forget that cotton wool is an essential part of any First Aid box. If we need to bathe any body part then a cotton wool ball is the ideal solution.
One great aspect of the Sainsbury's cotton wool balls is that you are able to hygienically remove a single ball without touching the remainder, this helps to keep the cleansing process as germ free as is possible.

In the handy tips and hints section of a woman's magazine I read that a cotton wool ball soaked in vanilla essence can be put on a shelf in the middle of the fridge and it will act as an odour eliminator. I have yet to try this out, I am not convinced that the vanilla essence itself would taint the fridge.

But all in all these are superior cotton wool balls at a marginally superior price.

Summary: A good sized cotton wool ball from Sainsbury's.