Do you use recycled toilet paper?

No thanks I'll keep to my usual Andrex or Asda toilet paper after many childhood horrors with Izal or newspaper.

The reason I haven’t tried Who Gives a Crap is that it’s shipped over from China. Also because the rolls are individually wrapped, which seems wasteful, though I am shallow enough to be tempted by how pretty they would look in the bathroom! Most of our toilet paper, recycled or not, is made over here, in the UK or at least in Europe. If I wanted to take out a toilet paper subscription (how daft does that sound?!) I’d go for Naked Sprout, which to my mind has better credentials than WGAC.

As a child I recall there was very little if anything to chose from other than Izal in packs you put in a holder hanging on the wall. or newspaper.

rubysong

I did buy Who Gives a Crap at the start of lockdown. I just got the 'bog standard' kind, 48 rolls. Never again. It was awful and the slightest drop of moisture made it disintegrate.

My daughter has it too and I find it rough. (It's also expensive).

I’m sure the sponge on a long stick comment was a joke!
Surely it was?
I remember being told how that was what the Romans used when we visited Pompeii a few years ago.

I buy the good quality quilted loo rolls. I’m sure they must work out better value than the cheap rolls as you use fewer sheets each time,

* We just rinse ours out after use and hang on the line to dry.*

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sometimes buy cheeky panda products as my milkman delivers them

Ah Izal, the smell of my childhood but better than getting newsprint on your bum.
The variety of loo paper in supermarkets is staggering. Luxury, quilted (doesn’t it block the loo?) super quilted, aloe vera, bamboo, unbleached, recycled, original, colours…and many more. Consumerism gone mad.
We just rinse ours out after use and hang on the line to dry.

We also use WGAC recycled paper loo rolls (and their kitchen rolls) and find them to be absolutely fine.

I have been using the re-cycled paper for years and the one I buy is also a compact one and lasts ages.
When I do have to buy a ' normal' type it seems to be gone in double quick time which seems more expensive to me. Ditto for kitchen paper

They only have them in their bathrooms, downstairs it’s paper.
The bum guns clean thoroughly!

Sago, love this idea , but how often would you wash your snowy towels? Not often enough to make the use of the washing machine negate the savings in paper? But would I trust the apparatus to do a good job? Probably I’d buy camouflage towels, or at least brown ones.
Presumably you have separate ones for each family member and others available for visitors and a mop for those accidents where the aim was wrong, and a stack of dry clothes in case of the same accidents.
I think I’d put put hooks on the door and suggest removing clothes from the waist down for novice users.
I used to use the shower hose (next to the toilet) to rinse off nappies so it’s one step on.

MaggieMaybe Here’s a link; www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwjwqKXuyZ_2AhXBUMAKHTouDxIQFnoECDkQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fsoutheastasiabackpacker.com%2Fbum-gun-beginners-guide%2F&usg=AOvVaw2hRzgVwkXFZp7meTWxhj8q

Once finished just dry off with a towel.

I’m intrigued, Sago. But don’t you still need paper to dry off after using them? Or are you clean enough afterwards to use a towel?

Our daughter had “bum guns” fitted on their lavatories.
Basically your loo becomes a bidet.
I was a bit outraged at first as they are not cheap, I now realise they are the way forward.
They have moved house but intend to have them installed as the bathrooms are renovated.

I was very ill with campylobacter a few years ago, I would have loved a bum gun ??????

Sounds ? nasty. I don’t actually look, just grab whatever is on special and usually ALDIs.

I’d love to but I’ve looked at the cost and it’s more expensive, unfortunately.

I agree that most items should be repairable but that’s not how this system works.

25Avalon

Wasn’t it Izal that wasn’t only hard and shiny but stank of disinfectant?

Oh God yes. My mum wouldn’t put toilet paper on the list if my dad was doing the weekly shop because Izal was all he’d buy. It was hard, to the point of crispy, shiny and not absorbent at all, and I don’t know how to say this politely so I’ll just say it - if it got even slightly moist your fingers went though it !! And as you say it absolutely reeked of cheap disinfectant. Awful stuff.

Wasn’t it Izal that wasn’t only hard and shiny but stank of disinfectant?

I feel the same GrandmaKT I try to buy the recycled TP and I think it's the same situation with kitchen paper. I don't think we really need 'quilted, extra soft, most absorbent, softest ever', or whatever.

Grandma used Izal which was like thin tracing paper and that really was revolting.

i was taught that 'getting hold of the wrong end of the stick' originated in roman times when there was a row of loos for the legionnaires and the stick was passed along the row.

I couldn’t understand the point of izal toilet paper. Which side were you supposed to use. Why was one side shiny anyway and it didn’t do what it was supposed to do. On the original subject, I’ve bought recycled loo roll in the past but find it’s not only harsh but not very absorbent. We have a touring caravan with a cassette loo and they sell special loo rolls for them and it’s useless too, just falls apart!

Don't buy wgac as made in China. Normally buy sainsbury recycled but off back of this thread I have just found naked sprout which I am going to order. Bamboo unbleached and made in Europe..interesting read

JackyB

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.

That's still a lot better than here JackyB where there is usually only a choice of 1!

No but I use reusable kitchen rolls I got off Qvc and they are brilliant