Scotch Magic Tape

I use this tape quite often at work and I also have a small dispenser of it at home too. It is a useful tape but I do think that for what you get, it is a bit expensive. The tape is basically a sellotape but with a matt finish (on the non-sticky side of course!) which is a sort of white colour - it is still semi transparent though. This means that when you use in on white paper you can't see the tape as obviously as you always can when you use standard tape which is shiny and reflective. Compared to other tapes too, this one you can write on which is always handy for annotations etc on work ... more

Scotch magic tape is a magical thing - as its name says. You would probably think that some famous Scotsman invented it or some Scottish factory started producing them. No. It is a product of a huge American manufacturing conglomerate 3M from Minnesota. The product has been invented in 1930s to be used with, then new material, cellophane as it was not possible to stick together sheets of cellophane together using existing sticky tapes on the market. Cellophane was a big hit with food distributors at that time as it was moisture proof. 3M engineer Richard Drew with his colleagues spent a year ... more

I have always bought my sticky tape from cheap pound shops but just before Christmas last year I was looking to buy a tape dispenser to make wrapping presents easier. I looked on Amazon and bought one which came with 3 rolls of Scotch Magic Tape and I was amazed at the difference. Obviously cheap sticky tape isn’t going to be the quality of expensive branded tape but I didn’t realise how much difference there would actually be. Scotch Magic Tape can be bought in many high street shops and I have picked mine up in Tesco when I’m doing my shopping. Here it costs £5.50 for a refill pack of 3 ... more

Possibly the best selotape I have ever used. No more spending hours searching for the end to be able to use it. This tape is easy to use, easy to tear off and sticks everything very well. It can stick to almost anything. I use it for wrapping presents, making things with my younger cousins, fixing things and many others. Anything you would want selotape for, this is bound to do the job. You can buy this from most good stationers but the prices do vary. It is more expensive than normal selotape but it is much better so I would say it is worth while. It costs about £1.50 a box where I buy it but ... more