It's enough to drive a young girl mad

[venta]

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.

Comments

we can send probes to Mars

[ewx.livejournal.com]

...sometimes they even survive the trip...

[thefon.livejournal.com]

I'm with you there, it's a joy when simple things work as they should.
"as it says on the tin"
Even better when more complex things "just work" intuitively.

[ringbark.livejournal.com]

Venta is not only someone who uses the word fizzog, but who is prepared to commit it to print...well, electrons.

Well done!

[bateleur.livejournal.com]

Things working is great, but it's a source of endless puzzlement to me that we manage to un-invent formerly working things. My list so far:

* Clothes pegs.
* Cookers.

Yes, you can still buy old-style (working!) versions of both of these... but only if you know where to find them!

[bopeepsheep.livejournal.com]

Usefully, those pump action things work splendidly when refilled, too. We had one of Kandoo handwash (belonging to the six year old) which now contains Tesco cheapo refill soap and still foams exactly the same way. Hoorah. (I wouldn't have been at all surprised to find it was somehow rigged so that it could not be refilled or broke when you tried or just spat out glop rather than nice white foam.)

[pm215]

Top tip -- describing things as 'inexplicable' works better when you don't follow up with a detailed and comprehensible explanation :-)

[thegreenman.livejournal.com]

We use a bar of soap here.

No plastic bottle, pump or otherwise, is required to use a bar of soap.

facewash

[exspelunca.livejournal.com]

Plastic tubes are the pits. I slit the side and end of a tube of Boots foundation and filled a 15ml pot with what wouldn't squeeze out. It's like Colmans getting rich on the mustard we leave on the side of the plate.