Do you use recycled toilet paper?

No. Dh always buys it - the mega 24 packs of Asda’s own. We’re pretty much always well stocked - thank goodness we didn’t have to worry during the first lockdown.

Further up the thread I said that about half the loopaper on the shelves in German supermarkets was recycled. I had a look yesterday when shopping and noticed that much less than half was clearly labelled "recycling." So, sorry about the wrong information
I never look at the other kind so I had remembered it wrong.

Saves on toilet paper, recycled or not. However the additional use of water and use of disinfectant to render them sanitary is possibly just as unsound, ecologically. The main complaint? They don’t dry quickly enough!
It’s more pleasant than some places we’ve visited where you drop your used toilet tissue in a bin, along with everyone else’s.

Washerwoman

I'm really surprised to see a negative comment about Who Gives a Crap loo roll.We get a box of the standard rolls. Each roll lasts ages as has lots of sheets and we find it really good quality. And I also buy their kitchen roll and tissues.Very prompt delivery too.

So do I. No problem with it excellent stuff and I know it comes in from China.

Bobbysgirl19

Mollygo

We use a sponge on a stick, one per member of the family rinse as you flush and wash after each use. We have toilet paper for guests.

Never heard of sponge on a stick and just googled it. It talks about how the Romans used this method. Definitely not for me, but each to their own. What is the advantage of this method?

A clean, sweet smelling botty !!

Mollygo

We use a sponge on a stick, one per member of the family rinse as you flush and wash after each use. We have toilet paper for guests.

Never heard of sponge on a stick and just googled it. It talks about how the Romans used this method. Definitely not for me, but each to their own. What is the advantage of this method?

Yes we do, and as you say there are very limited options. I remember telling my DM that I refuse to pay a lot of money for the 3 sheet, super soft varieties like she buys - she seemed horrified at the time and I didn't know why. Now I think DM thought I meant I was buying a modern Izal instead of the perfectly soft recycled one we do buy.

I'm really surprised to see a negative comment about Who Gives a Crap loo roll.We get a box of the standard rolls. Each roll lasts ages as has lots of sheets and we find it really good quality. And I also buy their kitchen roll and tissues.Very prompt delivery too.

My loo paper is only 30 percent recyclable, apparently.
I'm not prepared or able to spend more on something more eco.
Until companies start taking it seriously, I will stick with what I use.

I can remember years ago, my nan had Izal toilet paper. No absorbency at all. She only had an outside toilet.
I used to hang on if I could until I got back home.
I've tried recycled but found it a bit rough.

Gosh, I'm shocked that anyone would use Izal nowadays! We had a family friend who used it when we were children, we'd always 'hold on' til we got home! I'm afraid it always seems to me a perfect example of a product totally unfit for purpose.

We wrapped Isal around a comb and then blew through the comb , it made a great musical instrument, like something played by the bonzo dog dodah band

During the freezeup of 1947/8, I was sent to stay with an Uncle and aunt who ran a dry cleaning and clothes repair shop, and lived upstairs. There I saw my very first electric fire with mock coal at the bottom.
They never had any children, and I was terrified of my Aunt (my dad's twin sister). The only time there I had to go out of doors was to their toilet, which was situated with entrance only from the small garden at back. Very elaborate affair this was. However, my Aunt told me that she had 'counted the sheets on the (izal) toilet roll' and I should not use too much when I went in there and she would know exactly how much I was using.. I became scared of using that loo because of this. I know there was a serious paper shortage at the time, but still feel annoyed at that Aunt using such a mean thing to frighten a 6-year old.

Always buy recycled.

When I arrived in the UK in 1970- I could not believe Izal!!!

Izal was awful. I buy the cheapest soft tp.

When I started work at a local school, the headteacher had his own toilet next to my office (yes, delightful!). He used to complain that he could hardly turn round in there, and one day he showed me why. There were hundreds of packs of Izal crammed in, reaching nearly to the ceiling. Goodness knows how long they'd been there. The next head decided it'd be a good idea if we got rid of it by putting it in the staff toilets. It wasn't.

Izal and Bronco were excellent to use as tracing paper!

The harder brands of TP seem to be less absorbent than softer ones, without going into too much detail. ?

I looked at Who Gives a Crap paper but it’s made in China and has to be transported round the world to the UK so that’s a no from me. If you want to help provide lavatory facilities in developing countries there are charities such as toilet twinning.

Mollygo

We use a sponge on a stick, one per member of the family rinse as you flush and wash after each use. We have toilet paper for guests.

I thought our family were the only ones ?

Not me, i mentioned Izal in my earlier post. Horrible stuff.

It is available in Waitrose as an own-brand. I have been buying it for years.

I do not understand this hardness/softness issue. At most, unless you have other problems you are using it a couple of times a daya and how hard you rub it is within your control.

Anyone for a return to Bronco or Izal?

Morrisons own, which is about the best I could find. Funnily enough DP and I were talking about toilet paper last night - we don’t normally spent cosy winter nights discussing bodily functions, but it came up in conversation about days gone by !! Does anyone remember ‘Izal’ toilet paper. It was so hard I can only describe it as ‘crackly’ and there was a whiff of disinfectant about it. My mum deliberately left toilet paper off her shopping list whenever my dad was doing the weekly shopping, because he would always buy this stuff and everyone hated it. Wonder if they still make it.

Where do you keep these toilet sponges when they’re not in use? How are they washed? What if you have an attack of the trots and have to go every ten minutes? ?

I now only use toilet paper "when necessary". For dab and dry I use towelling squares which then go in the wash. Good for the planet and wonderful for the wallet.

Sounds revolting! How does it work?

This has reminded me that after the cut up newspaper on a string we had that hard shiny totally impractical (izal?) paper which was really horrible before eventually the soft tp arrived on the shelves. It was called soft toilet paper for years to differentiate what had gone before,