Charmin Ultra Soft – Best Toilet Paper Ever
Some people are pretty particular about their toilet paper. I am especially picky about toilet paper and loath using public restrooms because of the lack of sufficient toilet paper.
To me, there is nothing worse than toilet paper than is completely and utterly useless or effective. I mean, I know this isn’t a hot topic to talk about, but poor quality toilet paper seriously annoys the heck out of me. Go into any public restroom facility and chances are you’ll find toilet tissue that is indeed much like tissue. Tissue paper, to be exact. It’s either soon thin that you have to use a gigantic amount to get the job done or it’s so rough that you don’t even want it touching you. (cheese grater toilet paper)
So last month, Charmin sent me a pack of their new Ultra Soft toilet paper to try and asked me to blog about it if I liked the product. Being a big fan of Charmin, I couldn’t resist.
I’ve been using Charmin loyally for about 5 years now. Growing up, we always had Angel Soft or another cheap brand of toilet paper in my house and I hated it. Then I grew up, moved out, got married and start buying my own toilet paper. That’s when I discovered the wonder and the glory that is Charmin toilet paper.
I was always crazy about the price, so I took the time to buy cheap toilet paper and see how many days it lasted. Then buy Charmin and count how many days that lasted. Surprisingly, it took twice as long to go through the Charmin because I could so much less of it. I seriously took the time to calculate all this out and found out that it is definitely more cost effective to buy Charmin. Especially if you can spring for the large size packs of 24 Regular Rolls (Six 4-Roll Packs)
Charmin Ultra Soft is so soft and absorbent, but it’s not dusty like Cottenelle (which I hate!). Plus you can use 4x less than the leading value brand. That’s because it has absorbent cushions, so you can get more out of less. I only use 3 or 4 sheets at 1 time, but Charmin recommends using an average of 7 sheets. Personally I think that’s way too much for the average person! According to a recent survey conducted by GfK Roper Public Affairs and Media for Charmin, approximately half of households (around 45%) are using 10 rolls of toilet paper every month!!!! If you are used to buying something like Scotts toilet paper, than this probably sounds about right. Personally, I think that is absolutely absurd!!!!
With Charmin Ultra Soft (or even Charmin Ultra Strong) you can use approximately 7 sheets of Charmin versus about 28 sheets of the other leading value brand. That’s 4 times more! Your average “value” roll of tissue paper costs around $.75 per roll, even if you buy it in bulk. Charmin costs around $1.50 per roll, even if you get something as small as a 4 pack. So when you are shopping and you see a 4 pack of store brand tissue for like $3.50 and you see a 4 pack of the Charmin sitting there for like $5.50, you probably are thinking, “Ooooh I’m going to save money and buy the store brand tissue!” Um, wrong cupcake!
4 pack of store brand toilet paper = $3.50 x 4 = $14 per week
4 pack of Charmin toilet paper = $5.50 = $5.50 per week
Hello?!! That’s not rocket science…
So if you’re trying to cut back and save more, please try Charmin Ultra Soft and be amazed at the difference. Not only do you get more for less, but your butt is going feel a lot better too!
Availability: Pretty much anywhere you can buy “bathroom tissue”, toilet paper or whatever you want to call it! Get Charmin online at Drugstore.com. You can save even more by purchasing 9 Jumbo Rolls of Charmin Ultra Soft
Ah, a fellow TP fanatic! Charmin Ultra Soft is the only thing I will buy. I always knew intuitively that it wasn’t any chaper to buy the other brands, but thanks to you I now have the proof! We buy the big bundles at the warehouse stores and it’s worth every penny!
Thank you so much for this article. There has been a sudden increase in the use of toliet paper in my house. I’m chalking this up to my daughters’ (a 4 year old and a 2 1/2 year old) regularly using the toliet (look ma, no more diapers!). A 4 pk of used to last my husband 3-4 weeks, now it lasts a week depending on the brand. I’m now buying Charmin’s Ultra 12 roll pack. It lasts a long time (a little over a month), and I only have to buy TP once a month instead of 2 or 3 times a month. The larger packs really are more cost efficient.
I am in total agreement with you. Charmin Ultra Soft is the only TP that I will use/buy in my house. We usually buy it at Sams Club or Costco. Not really sure on the cost savings going that route, but I always have plenty on hand that way.
Has something changed recently? When I first tried this product, the paper completely shredded during use. I always assumed the little bear with pieces of paper on her butt in the Charmin Ultra Strong commercials was using Ultra Soft. I use Basic because it’s stronger than Ultra Soft but softer than Ultra Strong.
This covers all the bases = saves you money, helps the environment, helps your health, makes you feel better, it’s so easy to do and it costs less than $50.00; Save money and the Earth and be clean at the same time! Add Bathroom Bidet Sprayers to all your bathrooms. I think Dr. Oz on Oprah said it best: “if you had pee or poop on your hand, you wouldn’t wipe it off with paper, would you? You’d wash it off” Available at http://www.bathroomsprayers.com with these you won’t even need toilet paper any more, just a towel to dry off! Don’t worry, you can still leave some out for guests and can even make it the soft stuff without feeling guilty. It’s cheap and can be installed without a plumber; and runs off the same water line to your toilet. You’ll probably pay for it in a few months of toilet paper savings. As for water use a drought is always a concern and must be dealt with prudently but remember the water use of industrial users far exceeds the water use of household users and in the case of toilet paper manufacture it is huge. The pollution and significant power use from that manufacturing process also contributes to global warming so switching to a hand bidet sprayer and lowering your toilet paper use is very green in multiple ways.
Brands do not have to work well as Charmin I only buy big sets.
Charmin’s good in some place, it’s terrible in others. I use it in NJ and it’s great. Whichever factory is supplying it in Florida is makeing a terrible product- totally NON-absorbent! Toss it in the toilet- it floats! When you flush, it doesn’t even go down. Try to blot up water with it, and it stays dry- won’t pick up the water.
After 4 years of this, I finally tested northern paper vs southern, and wrote P&G asking for an explanation. Result? They send you a coupon for some free toilet paper (in packaging that no store I can find uses), then ignores the question. Wrote back and they got a bit surly- said they were looking into it so why was I bothering them again? Six months later, I’ve still not heard from them.
My adult daughter and I have been using Charmin for about 4 months. I just paid a roto-router guy to snake out the blockage. He thought I was flushing paper towels in my toilet, then he guessed I was using Charmin. NOT CHEAP.
Will never buy again- blocked the commode three times this week. Never had that problem with my usual brand.
Okay people, c’mon!!!!
Seriously, the whole point of using Charmin is because you can use LESS!
Of course it’s going to block up your toilet if you use your regular 25 sheets. Personally I use THREE. Yes, you read that right. I use three sheets of Charmin and it gets the job done. I’ve also never clogged my toilet.
Common sense people.
Wow, you’re really something. Do you assume all people who don’t agree with you are idiots?