Izal Toilet Paper

Do you remember being at school and that horrible thin, scratchy non-absorbent paper that smeared everything around rather than soaking it up, and scratched your delicate bits to pieces? Well, now you know it’s name Izal medicated toilet tissue. If you don’t remember these days, you are indeed fortunate! On paper, (pun very much intended) this offers a useful thing up to the discerning wiper of rear end’s and front bottoms. It's medicated to kill bacteria, therefore making your bottom a much more hygienic place ,although I wouldn’t try eating your dinner off it! Thats not a place you want your ... more

At the beginning of the 1890`s a germicidal disinfectant had been made using the by products from coke furnaces, gases, tars and oils. In 1893 this was patented as Izal. The product became available in liquid, powder, soap, cream and ointment form. This famous disinfectant was said to help combat cholera, chicken pox, whooping cough and typhoid fever. It also claimed to cure malaria, worms, perspiring feet and baldness! Izal was eventually added to toilet paper and was a best selling product for years. Izal is priced at £1.49 a roll, or a flat packet of tissue type paper retails at £1.49. Izal ... more

Izal toilet paper. When I was little I can only remember izal toilet paper I do not think even if soft toilet paper had been invented then that is was common. I remember having to go to our outside loo that did not flush, the “ bucket men” used to come ands collect every week. I used to have to wipe my poor delicate bum on this paper ouch scratchy. Also at school I had to run across the school playground to visit the loos, I think they were flush the only paper to be found there if you found any was Izal. I would think my first experience of soft toilet paper was when I was about 7 ... more

I don’t care for this toilet paper from Izal though I know it is still sold in some shops. I cannot think who might choose to buy it and use it for personal reasons as it is so harsh and uncomfortable to use. It’s unpleasant. It is made by Jeyes and has been about for many years and years ago we used to use it but not any more. You get it in those small green cardboard packs and you get a lot of sheets for well under 70p but I wouldn’t want to have this left out in my bathroom, especially if I had a gust who was using my toilet facilities. It is very old fashioned toilet paper and I think they ... more

Does anyone apart from my mother in law actually use this stuff anymore? It comes on either a roll, which I have found in Tesco for 68 for 336 sheets or you can still buy it in the little green and white box with individual pieces which you just pull out one by one. It is made by Jeyes and is as old as the hills. I can remember it in our toilets when I was in Junior School and for that reason alon I ussed to wait until I got back home before I opened my bowels, because the though of wiping myself with this scratchy harsh paper used to make my eyes water. It is strong and medicated and has a ... more