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This morning, I was made inexplicably happy by my bottle of Boots' facewash. It ran out.

Boots Tea-tree and Witch-hazel foaming face-wash comes in a pump-action plastic bottle. The liquid is green, but comes out as white foam - this in itself delights me, like getting yellow custard from pink custard powder. The pump works very effectively, even if the label does have the most spuriously accurate instructions ever, ordering you to dispense "two amounts" onto your hand.

Anyway, it has for some time neatly dispensed white foam for me, and this morning it ran out and stopped. Last night it worked perfectly. There has been no intermediate stage where the pump sputtered and spluttered, or ceased working with some left in the bottom of the bottle. I didn't have to attack the bottle with scissors to get the last out... it Just Worked. And, because the bottle is clear plastic, I could see that the end was nigh and get new stocks in.

Truly, our technological advancement is at a strange level when we can send probes to Mars and yet I'm surprised that a pump-action bottle works properly. But it did, and that made me happy. Oh, and it's even quite good for washing your fizzog with.

For the record, Superdrug do one in an identical-looking bottle, except they've also included mint at concentration levels which make your eyeballs peel.