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Just saw these at Costco today and thought they were a pretty good deal for individually wrapped make-up wipes. Thought I’d share in case anyone else wants to try them. https://www.costco.com/neutrogena-makeup-remover-cleansing-towelettes-singles%2C-60-count.product.100469085.html
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Please don’t. Too much waste. Put make up wipes in a nice glass jar with a lid. No one will mind.
Those are the ones I use, I get them from Amazon although you have to watch pricing, it fluctuates a lot.
I do feel guilty about all the packaging. Do you find lots of people share the bulk ones with no problem? Do they stay fresh and wet?
Forum peeps who actually use these things, would you prefer individual ones or bulk shared with past guests?
We bought these from Costco that come in 2 different size packs (not individual).
Unfortunately, guests rarely use them, but seem to prefer the white hand towels and white washcloths.
I bought the packages but they do dry out. I won’t be buying more. It’s better for the environment and budget to buy packs of washcloths when I find a good deal.
Buy cheapo washcloths for your guests. The wipes are a bad idea for the environment and even worse for your plumbing if they’re flushed down the loo. And some daft, or tipsy, or unconcerned guest will flush them down the loo.
Get budget washcloths and some you’ll have no problem washing them(cold water is best) - I have some that have been going for almost four years. You’ll have to throw them away sometimes but they probably work out even cheaper than wipes in the long run.
Definately have the same experience with the hand towels. Drives me crazy!
If a washcloth is permanently soiled, I clean them and use them for cleaning rags. Same as old towels: rip them up and use them in place of paper towels, j cloths, and even as makeup removers.
Me too!! I cut the corner off so the “rag” doesn’t accidentally end up back with the washcloths.
I don’t mind the bulk shared with past guests. Lol. When a package in the apartment gets too low, I put a new one in and take the old ones upstairs and use them.
But this sounds weird to me. I wouldn’t use those. It sounds like people are going to be putting their whole hand in the jar and touching more than just the wipe they are going to use. With the packaged wipes, you pull on and only touch the one you are going to personally use. The others remain basically unscathed. However, I do throw out the top one in the package before bringing the package upstairs to use for myself, but I also throw out the top kleenex from the box before adopting it too. I guess it feels a little cleaner but I don’t really think it matters. I actually teach “Infection Control” and would say these packages are super-low risk.
We provide the wipes and also dark wash cloths. The wipes might not be the very best thing for the environment but washing a bunch of wash cloths isn’t either, I’d say it’s a toss-up and low on the scale of STR environmental issues.
I have found that some of the wipes dry out, specifically the cheaper ones. We have good luck with the Burt’s Bees - I just get them when they’re on sale at Whole Foods with my amazon prime bonus and it makes them cost-effective.
Luckily for me, not many of my guests use them. Even the women staying tend to be in a situation like driving cross country where they aren’t even wearing their usual make up. I need to put the last pack of Costco wipes I bought in there and close the book on that amenity. It’s funny we had a lot of posts about makeup on towels a few years ago and that’s when I bought mine. I was pretty new and it seemed the consensus was that was the best approach. Now I know I don’t need them. Benzoil peroxide bleaching is a bigger issue for me than staining.
We’ve skipped the makeup wipes entirely. Don’t want them flushed down the toilet, and the whole business is an ecological nightmare.
We tried the wipes because we are unfortunately getting more and more cases where makeup just doesn’t come out. Female guests that come for weddings or music festivals are pretty much guaranteed to ruin a few washcloths and a towel or two. We buy the washcloths on sale at Costco an they’re around $0.50 each, so I don’t care, but the hand towels and occasional bath towels are expensive.
I’d love to know a guaranteed way to remove any and all makeup from towels. I think it’s mostly the super waterproof mascara.
My wife started down the path of buying black washcloths for makeup, then she said she didn’t want to because it basically means the washcloths will always be dirty with somebody else’s makeup, you just can’t see it.
That’s staining, not dirty.
Stains and dirt aren’t the same. But if it grosses out your wife it might gross out a guest.
I can’t say that it’s guaranteed but it’s very rare that I have lost anything because of staining. I wash stuff in cold water always, and I think that makes a difference. If stains remain, I then soak the towels in cold water with Oxyclean until the next time I wash when they go in again. Sometimes they go washer/soak/washer several times but it works with no scrubbing at all. 
I do not lose a towel to stains unless I just feel like blowing it off (sometimes I do because of time or the towel is on its way out anyways (they go to the animal shelter). I am a stainmaster 
I agree with @jaquo about the oxyclean. I like the oxyclean spray particularly for spots. However, for tough stains, the oxyclean spray is what I use after I remove the stain otherwise. Oxy is perfect for ridding the shadows that stains leave.
For makeup, Dawn dishliquid is your best defense. Even the waterproof crap. Even the health food store crap (which is oddly, harder to remove, how natural can that be?). Soak, scrub, dab.
If for some reason, it is not budging, the Biokleen Bac Out is always a good bet to lift it to the surface. And for some, I’ve had to use an ink remover. Or rubbing alcohol. But Dawn will get the majority of it.
Always the very best idea to handle stained or torn linens and towels. Animals don’t mind the stains at all.
Local animal hospitals gladly take them too.
I put out giant packets of Ahava Dead Sea wipes, get them on sale, they take a long time to dry out. It’s like using one tissue out of a box, guests don’t mind. I have black washcloths also, but I think it’s psychologically interesting that stains that are there but not visible don’t bother people.