handiwipes

What are they?

Is there a better choice?

I like pastry brushes and sponge type wipe ups

So far,

They are SO handy! Once I had lipstick on my monitor ( don't ask) and the handiwipe took it straight off!

I cut them in half. Take one half then one paper towel, folded in half, place in center of handiwipe. Use for Clorox mop - when finished cleaning floor - throw away paper towel and rinse out Handiwipe. Reuse. The dirt goes into paper towel and very little is on Handiwipe.

Dorothy

Clorox owns the brand, Handi Wipes. Chicopee Mills invented them in the

I think they are rayon. They're good for washing and drying my "Barbecue Bob and the Spare Ribs" LPs. Some use them instead of cheesecloth to strain food. They withstand alkalines but not acids or concentrated bleach. In the food service industry, they last 1 to 3 days.

I don't know. As dishrags, they are good for getting into corners. They can be squeezed and used damp as towels. The cost about 40 cents apiece and may last weeks in the kitchen.

Why?

Are these the same things that we call 'J' Cloths? I thought a handiwipe would be like a wetwipe, small, impregnated with something to assist it in doing the intended job.

i don't like mixing my job cloths. The pastry brush is used for greasing pans and oiling and milk on pastry then nothing else. The sponge for worktops and sink. It soaks up the wet more than the wipe. I use wipes for dirty jobs. I wouldn't want the wipe to get mixed up and then use it for my sink if it had been used for a toilet.

It's *so* confusing! Since Chicopee Mills developed Handi Wipes in the

I don't know what Chicopee Mills developed the Handi Wipe. About the time of WWI, the Chicopee Manufacturing Company started up in existing cotton-mill buildings in Manchester NH. It was known as Chicopee Mills and closed in 1975.

In 1927, Johnson & Johnson built a mill village near Gainesville GA to make gauze and bandages. They called it Chicopee Mills. Their J Cloth was produced there. That Chicopee Mills closed in 1993, but Johnson & Johnson still has a Chicopee Division.

Another Chicopee Mills, in Milltown NJ, makes the Miracloth. It's a rayon polyester that laboraties use to filter microbes. Their address is also listed as NY and La Jolla CA.

The original Chicopee textile mills started in Chicopee MA, originally part of Springfield, in 1825. They were booming in 1898. I don't know when they closed.

In the interest of ecology, this university no longer supplies paper tissues in toilet stalls. Instead, students and faculty carry reusable nonwoven towels wherever (and whenever) they go.

plenty of people don't use paper or cloth, they prefer to wash their bottoms after they've been.

Toilets here in Japan spray you down and dry you off.

yeah and for the poorer people in some countries a bottle, full of water

They are great. First Kitchen was making them in the 70's as I grew up. Clorox has improved on that venerable product. Not easy but they did. Handi-Wipes are not the only kid in town however. Mr. Clean (regular and premium) and 3M (Scotch-Brite) all produce reusable, machine washable, cleaning wipes. I have all 4 and use all 4. If regional distribution means one or more are unavailable in your area, try one of the others. They work well with a variety of cleaners (I remember the 70's version could be undone by bleach, so I'd be careful there) and if you don't try to push into a job for steel wool, they should all prove to be a useful addition to your cleaning arsenal.