Izal toilet paper

I don't know when soft toilet rolls were invented. I remember Izal being in use at primary school, and it was medicated and had a distinctive smell. It was vaguely shiny too, though I'm not sure if it caused spreading issues.
I saw a doctor/expert on TV a few years ago, explaing how modern toilet rolls are so absorbant that waste matter ends up on hands far more than with Izal, and if hands are not washed properly, more unsanitary.
iirc it was on rolls and in individual sheet boxes too, and was used in every public toilet.

There might not be many public toilets around now, but at least the bog rolls are nicer to use, if less hygenic.

It was about as good as a doc leaf

i think it was the hygiene issue and of course cheapness - but if you wash your hands with normal paper it's fine - not a certainty in schools so thats probably the reason - but it was awful stuff.

My mother likes it in her lavatory only for the look mind.(Old fashion style)

I used to scrunch it all up so it would be able to get a better grippage on the number 2.

****ing Great !!!!
Used to slide over anal opening with no real definition of faeces removal

Thanks lads - I was just about to have my supper. 

Is it possible to trace the roots of this product

Have you tried to play a comb and paper with Andrex. It just isn't going to work.

You lot don't know you're born.

We had an outside toilet and used newspaper in the dark.

Kenny - you must have eaten a lot of carrots

old wive's tale. lol

or urban legend.

KENNY MAN WAS RIGHT WE ALL USED OLD NEWSPAPERS ,THE TOILET WAS OUT SIDE AND THERE WAS NO LIGHT ,,I USED TO SIT ON THE TABLE IN MY GRANS YARD AND CUT THE NEWS PAPERS INTO SQUARES AND PUT A HOLE THROUGH THEM AND HANG THEM ON A PIECE OF STRING ,IN HER TOILET ,

WE JUST HAD A NEWSPAPER IN OURS SHOVED BEHIND THE PIPES TILL WE NEEDED IT

YOU COULDNT FLUSH THE CHAIN IN THE COLD WEATHER AS ALL THE PIPES FROZE

AND YOU WAS LUCKY IF YOU HAD A TOILET  SEAT TO SIT ON

I DONT KNOW WHAT PEOPLE USED WHO DIDNT HAVE A NEWS PAPER

ALOT OF TOILETS OUTSIDE DIDNT EVEN HAVE A DOOR ON

AND THEM THAT DID DEFINATLY DIDNT HAVE A LOCK ON ,ANYBODY COULD WALK INTO THE TOILET WHILE YOU WAS ON

WHEN YOU HAD A BATH YOU USED A TIN BATH THAT YOU KEPT OUTSIDE YOU BROUGHT IT IN THE KITCHEN ,AND THEN EVERY BODY IN THE HOUSE HAD A BATH WITH THE SAME WATER AS THEIR WAS NO HOT WATER YOU HAD TO BOIL KETTLES

Fortunately Do Wah, although I was born in the same year as you, I never had to use an outside loo, or bathe in a tin tub. Wasn't far off though as the outside loo was still there, although the toilet had been removed. Used to keep my bike in there. The back bedroom had been reduced in size and made way for a bathroom only 5 years before I came along.

Yes,in our house too we used newspaper.
As for Izal, it had a rival whose name escapes me.

I was also born in the same year (1950) as both Kenny Man and Do Wah.....what's the chances of that ?

Kenny Mann is eternally 59, hasn't been born in 1950 since 2009.

Hello lobby, you're a year behind us mate.

I MOVED TO GORTON WHEN I GOT MARRIED AND STILL USED AN OUTSIDE TOILET AND TIN BATH UNTILL 1983 WHEN WE MOVED

THE HOUSE IN GORTON WAS THAT DAMP ,I PUT DRAWING PINS IN THE KITCEN TO HOLD THE WALL PAPER UP AND THATS TRUE

THE HOUSE IN GORTON WAS THAT DAMP ,I PUT DRAWING PINS IN THE KITCEN TO HOLD THE WALL PAPER UP AND THATS TRUE

THE HOUSE IN GORTON WAS THAT DAMP ,I PUT DRAWING PINS IN THE KITCEN TO HOLD THE WALL PAPER UP AND THATS TRUE

THE HOUSE IN GORTON WAS THAT DAMP ,I PUT DRAWING PINS IN THE KITCEN TO HOLD THE WALL PAPER UP AND THATS TRUE

THE HOUSE IN GORTON WAS THAT DAMP ,I PUT DRAWING PINS IN THE KITCEN TO HOLD THE WALL PAPER UP AND THATS TRUE

I USED TO CLIMB IN THE DIRTY OLD LOFT TO PUT PITCH ON THE INSIDE OF THE ROOF TO STOP THE RAIN COMEING IN ,AS THE CEILING IN MY CHILDS BEDROOM FELL IN

I CLIMBED IN THE LOFT WITH JUST MY UNDERPANTS ON AND IT WAS MURDER TRYING TO GET THROUGH THE SMALL HOLE IN THE LOFT ,I WAS LIKE A COAL MINER WHEN I CAME OUT

MY EX WIFE HAD HAD ENOUGH OF ME THE NUMBER OF TIMES I WENT UP THERE ,IN THE END SHE SAID STAY UP THERE FOR ALL THE USE YOU ARE

I TOLD HER I WAS A MECHANICAL ENGINEER NOT A BUILDER

NIGHT NIGHT KENNY MAN AND LOBBY LUDD NICE TO HEAR FROM YOU

you might've got away with saying you were a structural engineer.

PS I SERVED MY TIME IN ENGINEERING AS AN APPRENTICE ,THEY DIDNT TEACH YOU TO MEND LEAKING ROOFES OR HOW TO HANG WALL PAPER ON SOAKING DAMP WALLS

nite nite Do wah..dont let the bedbugs bite

SEE YOU SOFEE AND DEPUTY DILLON

mind how you go.

A classic thread, very funny and so true.I can remember as a kid having to share a toilet in a yard up the street .

When we had an outside khazi I used to wait for my sister to go so she warmed up the seat. 

And the tin bath hanging on the back of the scullery door !! A nice hot bath in front of a coal fire then off to bed with ice on the inside of the facking bedroom window.

Nobody we knew has central heating or double glazing.

The couple next door were proper posh, they had a phone.

We wuz poor, but we wuz 'appy.

It is good etiquette to leave a box of matches in the lavatory so you can spark a match up to mask the smell of the the number 2

Over the fields, where we used to play and explore as kids, was a row of very old cottages
and there was a small outbuilding in the yard. 

This had been the toilet and inside was a wooden seat with two holes in it.

How very cosy!

Lobby Ludd. Was it called 'Bronco'?
There was also the 'Jeyes' which was single sheets in a flat box-type holder.

These namby-pamby buggers today! Softy-Softy little bottoms, heated bedrooms, eiderdowns that don't have sleeves and pockets, no 'character-building' experiences whatsoever.

You're right naydam, my boys have it far too easy but we like to keep them on their toes and 'keep it real' by stubbing cigarettes out on them.

Izal was the best by a mile to take to a football match, you could chuck one right from the back of the stand on to the nets when you scored a goal, try doing that with an Andrex.

We used to call it 'sandpaper'

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Lobby Ludd. Was it called 'Bronco'?
There was also the 'Jeyes' which was single sheets in a flat box-type holder.

Flat sheets of paper, in a box, bloody luxury

There was a notice in our loo, in the likely event there is no paper, use your fingers as a scraper.

Oi Kenny! I never said that WE used owt like that. We wuz Izal or Bronco all the way.

All this moaning by us fellas about a bit of crinkly bog paper...What about sparing a thought for the women?!! Now that's what you call brave.

Izal toilet paper is a better read than the Guardian newspaper but not as good as the Guardian for the purpose for wot is was intended.

I hope this clarifies the matter.

Outside toilets and tin baths pah that's nothing I had to were hand me down clothes only problem was I have 3 older sisters

macarony sorry to here about your misfortune are you still cross dressing now?

now and again

Hope to have the wifes knickers on tonight.

Always came in handy if you ran out of tracing paper.

i once gave a guest lecture at a college in Chelmsford- some sort of Design and Art place- their claim to fame is that they invented Izal

i remember the toilet graffiti - tho this is 25 years ago- the one which sticks in my mind is 'this stuff only pushes things around a bit'

Comes in handy for lining the tin when you've run out of greaseproof paper and you're making fudge.

(There's all kind of scat humour going on in that posting if you've got a mind like a cess-pit)

I still have a pristine roll of Izal toilet paper - should it be sent to the British Museum?

hated the stuff as a kid, always use to crunch it up to try and soften it.

horrible stuff, but it was marginally better than sandpaper !

^Pinhooker - If you still have a roll why don't you try and sell it on ebay.

First wipe was more of a scoop

Its dimesions were totally unsuitable,ok for wiping a canarys @rse efficiently but usless for humans, if you looked in terror  to find there was only one sheet left...you were in big trouble,er...wishing you hadnt had that one sheet yourself