What happened to pastel toilet paper?

[Jeff Wisnia]

I've observed that there isn't much (if any) pastel colored toilet paper
on the store shelves these days. It used to be plentiful. Is this due to
a shift in buyer preference, or was thaere some real or imagined health
or environmental reason behind its current lack of popularity?

Thanks,

Jeff Wisnia W1BSV

email replies appreciated..

[BobKinDC]

Jeff Wisnia <wk...@tiac.net> wrote:

>I've observed that there isn't much (if any) pastel colored toilet paper
>on the store shelves these days. It used to be plentiful. Is this due to
>a shift in buyer preference, or was thaere some real or imagined health
>or environmental reason behind its current lack of popularity?
>
>

Colored toilet paper fell out of favor a couple of years ago. It's
pastel-colored because it was dyed that way and when you use it in the
manufacturer-intended way, you're introducing dye (from whatever source) into a
very absorptive surface.

White tissue paper is no great improvement, IMO, as chlorine and dioxins are
used to bleach it white, but the buying public never embraced the idea of
grayish-brownish-off-white tissues.

I'm sure the "hazard" was negligible to start with, as your system gets a
greater blast of some comparable dye every time you eat a single jellybean or
M&M, but it's hard to develop any kind of brand loyalty to apricot or mauve
toilet paper to start with, and any rumor (no matter how specious) of health
hazards can trigger even the most fashionable shopper to a blander brand.

--Bob Kennedy
Washington, DC

[SJF 1959]

Jeff Wisnia <wk...@tiac.net> writes:

>
>I've observed that there isn't much (if any) pastel
colored toilet paper on the store shelves these days.
It used to be plentiful. <

This is evidence of what theologians call a
gradually realized eschatology. As the demand
for (the intrinsically tacky) dyed toilet papers
subsides, we come closer to Kingdom of God.

;-)

Regards from Deborah

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BobKinDC wrote:

>
> Jeff Wisnia <wk...@tiac.net> wrote:
>
> >I've observed that there isn't much (if any) pastel colored toilet paper

> >on the store shelves these days. It used to be plentiful. Is this due to
> >a shift in buyer preference, or was thaere some real or imagined health
> >or environmental reason behind its current lack of popularity?
> >
> >
> Colored toilet paper fell out of favor a couple of years ago. It's
> pastel-colored because it was dyed that way and when you use it in the
> manufacturer-intended way, you're introducing dye (from whatever source) into a
> very absorptive surface.
>
> White tissue paper is no great improvement, IMO, as chlorine and dioxins are
> used to bleach it white, but the buying public never embraced the idea of
> grayish-brownish-off-white tissues.

The same considerations apply to both the personal and environmental
areas here...people started to figure that flushing that dye into the
river couldn't be doing it any good, so they switched to white without
much sorrow.

FWIW, an acquaintance who once worked for Scott Paper (R.I.P.) told me
that they developed TP in deeper colors, but the focus groups or
whatever didn't go for it.

[ja...@kensico.com]

In article <357D9A...@tiac.net>,

wk...@tiac.net wrote:
>
> I've observed that there isn't much (if any) pastel colored toilet paper
> on the store shelves these days. It used to be plentiful. Is this due to
> a shift in buyer preference, or was thaere some real or imagined health
> or environmental reason behind its current lack of popularity?
>

I've heard that the dyes in the tissues caused an upsurge in bladder and
vaginal infections in women.

j.b.

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[KGename]

Jeff wrote:
>I've observed that there isn't much (if any) pastel colored toilet paper
> >on the store shelves these days. It used to be plentiful. Is this due to
> >a shift in buyer preference, or was thaere some real or imagined health
> >or environmental reason behind its current lack of popularity?

I think there are two simple reasons for the demise.

1- Pastel paper, as well as pastel ANYTHING, pretty much fell out of favor with
the slowly-increasing fashion sense of the American public.
2- People, dumb as they are, seem to regard white products of this nature as
cleaner, somehow. Even if they have to be clorinated to get 'em this way, so be
it.

Regards, Keith N9LRS (yeah, me too)
KGe...@AOL.com

--I am the master of my fate
I am the captain of my soul--

[Curtis Cameron]

KGename wrote:

>1- Pastel paper, as well as pastel ANYTHING, pretty much fell out of favor with
>the slowly-increasing fashion sense of the American public.

^^^^^^^^^^

Increasing? Was this a typo? Wait, no, that seems to be what the
sentence is saying. Hmmm. I guess I haven't witnessed any
fashion-senses increasing. Have you seen the ladies' shoes lately?

-Curtis Cameron
WGS-84 33.033N, 96.724W

[Mary Shafer]

Pastel toilet paper vanished when some people, particularly women,
discovered that the dye caused contact dermatitis in a particularly
sensitive area of the body of those allergic to it. Scented toilet
paper vanished at about the same time when the scent affected allergic
people in the same way.

--
Mary Shafer DoD #0362 KotFR sha...@ursa-major.spdcc.com
URL http://www.dfrc.nasa.gov/People/Shafer/mary.html
"Some days it don't come easy/And some days it don't come hard
Some days it don't come at all/And these are the days that never end...."

[KGename]

Curtis wrote:
ncreasing? Was this a typo? Wait, no, that seems to be what the
sentence is saying. Hmmm. I guess I haven't witnessed any
fashion-senses increasing. Have you seen the ladies' shoes lately?

I never look at the shoes.

Keith

[Ray]

Jeff Wisnia wrote in message <357D9A...@tiac.net>...

>I've observed that there isn't much (if any) pastel colored toilet paper
>on the store shelves these days. It used to be plentiful. Is this due to
>a shift in buyer preference, or was thaere some real or imagined health
>or environmental reason behind its current lack of popularity?
>

>Thanks,
>
>Jeff Wisnia W1BSV

We should also note that the generic tissue made by Coronet (I think) that
contained a brownish-black design in the center of each sheet has also
disappeared (thankfully) from the shelves. It was the only toilet paper
that I have ever seen that had a design resembling a fecal stain on every
sheet.