Aerosol cans?

[The Medway Handyman]

Following the recent thread here about aerosol cans.....

[harry]

I wonder if they'll be any cheaper? More to do with profits I expect.

[Brian Gaff]

Hmm, however would it not be better to let the user pump up the spray and then it only uses air.

Brian

[polygonum]

Fairly recently Kleenex damned near halved the size of one of their tissue boxes. With the proud claim that the contents were unchanged.

I guess they must mean they are unchanged since the last pre-box-shrinking reduction in contents!

And if it is such a wonderful thing for them to have reduced the packaging, why on earth didn't they do it many years ago?

[docholliday93]

Looking at their figures, if 80% of the UK and Ireland prefer aerosol deodorant and there are 19 million cans of deodorant for women sold - that's less than one per year for each woman. Seems surprisingly low...

[Andy Burns]

I was searching around for info on PET preforms before Christmas, and came across this site, so it seems there is at least some sort of "push" to reduce the amount of flammable propellant in aerosols

[Dave Liquorice]

" ... last the same length of time as previous cans while using only 50 per cent of the propellant, ..."

How does it do that then? Higher pressure?

How are they measuring "last the same length of time"? Is that total duration of squibs or application of a given quantity of active product in a shorter squib? If the latter that ain't going to work in the real world, they'll just squib on like they always have.

[Apellation Controlee]

>>Fairly recently Kleenex damned near halved the size of one of their

Probably because the tissues come out of the box torn on the folds.

[harry]

Most propellants are in liquid form in the can and they have to be compatible with the can contents. Some are flammable and some are not. The concern is with CFCs and the "hole" in the ozone layer.

[Andy Burns]

Not as far as gullible consumers are concerned ...

[Terry Fields]

Oh, has the time come round again for the ozone hole to be used as a stick with which to beat us?

[Bob Eager]

Same with 'E numbers'. They forget that many of them are everyday stuff. Like E948.

[The Medway Handyman]

Bought some shower gel today, first on the ingredients list was Aqua...

[PeterC]

McDonalds was the first to use E-numbers:

'Old McDonald had a farm E1, E1, E10'

[PeterC]

A dozen years ago my then GF was using various noxins (I hate 'pink' smells) from plastic bottles with simple, finger-operated, pump top. She gave me a few for dispensing _useful_ stuff, such as oil and WD40 mixed.

[Dave Liquorice]

An awful lot of products have that stuff as the first ingredient. If they called it dihydrogen monoxide the gullible consumers would panic.

[harry]

You can buy 5litre cans of WD40 CW with a hand sprayer, much cheaper.