Delon Premium Cotton Rounds - 100% Hypoallergenic, Lint-Free, 2-Sided Makeup & Nail Polish Remover Pads, 100 Count - Choose Your Pack

In these days of cheap manufacture and strict adherence to bottom lines, often times (USUALLY) quality falls by the wayside. What that means to the "Cotton Rounds Game" is easily noticeable. I am frustrated time and again by rounds that leave me with the clear impression that someone during manufacture put the question to themselves: "How little cotton can we put into each round such that it maintains its ability to be packaged and sold and MISTAKEN FOR an actual round of usable cotton?"But these rounds are different. As far as I can tell, they are one of the very last ones of their kind. Normally you go through the routine of taking out a cotton round, applying astringent (or whatever), and seeing as the cotton round absorbs an incredibly small amount of cosmetic product and wilts into something far too close to a wet piece of toilet paper for anyone's face's liking. Hanging soggily over your fingertips in some incredibly impotent way, you know it's all over now but for the swishing of your face afterwards to shoo off the cotton it's left behind as it fell so weakly apart. And if you're a DUDE, forget it! Your next 5 minutes are booked picking cotton out of your stubble.These Delon ones maintain their consistency from beginning to end. They come out of the pack in a stiff way without sacrificing gentleness during application. One side is exfoliating, one side is smooth, neither side falls apart. These are by far the best thing I've found lately...and when I say lately, I mean since Target (whose quality was never consistent on these since one time they'd have one kind, then on the next visit their aisles showed no trace that the previous month's kind ever even existed) a couple years ago changed to their store branded "Up&Up" brand and went the way of the WORTHLESS toilet paper cotton round. That was at least a couple years ago, and searching around in the interim has been fruitless...until now. Hopefully Delon will not begin to follow suit. Because as of right now...they're the best by far.

Like some of the other reviewers, I was pretty fed up with inconsistent quality of cotton rounds available at the local drugstore so I thought id give these a try. Being as anal retentive as I am, i calculated the cost per single cotton round if i bought a one package from drugstore, then price per round if i bought the bulk package here (800 count). Definitely cheaper to buy the larger quantity.. which surprisingly enough (at least to me) is not always the case when you break it down to the unit cost of a bulk purchase. Anal retentiveness aside, I would buy them even if they were more expensive .. in my opinion the difference in quality is well worth it. Since I'm all about the generic store brands to save money, this is high praise indeedHow ive used them:1. washed my face with cleanser in the shower, and they don't shred, even when wet.2. remove makeup3. remove nail polish4. cleaning my dogs ears...5. putting in my contact lenses - they don't leave any of those lint thingies (technical term) that sometimes stay behind with some other brands.. i know that if i dry my fingers with one of these after washing my hands,nothing is going into my eye except the contact lens. So many times, even after very carefully washing and drying my hands with towels, paper towels or other "lint free"tissues.. I still end up with something irritating in my eye that i dont "see" until its on my eyeball.. and then i have to start the whole process again. very annoying when in a hurry..6. The lack of shedding (for lack of a better word), also works great if i'm trying to clean the edges of my nails after painting them.JANUARY 2014 - UPDATEI still think they're great,but I want to point out that since the last time i purchased (within the last 2-3 months), the price has jumped from $17 to $30. I'll probably still use them but will definitely be redoing my unit cost calculation... and oh yes now i have to pay tax on it too. Sorry Amazon, more and more of your items are just not the deal they once were.

I ordered this because I was too lazy to go to the CVS across the street to get more. It was raining really hard, and I knew that if I didn't get them right then, I'd forget and then I'd be stuck wearing my waterproof mascara until the day I died. So I ordered these things (which actually were less expensive than the amount that CVS charges. Yay DC prices!). Amazon Prime shipping later, I got to try them out. Holy crap these things are wonderful. I completely understand what other reviewers are saying about feeling bad about throwing them out after one use. The more scrubby side is good for using toner and that sort of thing. The soft side - and oh, how soft it is - is good for taking off eye makeup. They never fall apart. The ones I'd bought at CVS would kind of break in the middle when I was taking off my eye makeup. Not these guys. I think you'd need scissors to get them in half. They also don't have that little ridge along the outside that the CVS ones have, the one sealing them together. That ridge would often rub into my skin, wouldn't cut or anything, but it would hurt a bit and sometimes leave a little red mark that would take a few minutes to go away. I just figured that was how cotton rounds were. I was so wrong!The price isn't bad at all when you consider how many you're getting, and when you consider that you'll only need one to take off your eye makeup, not one for the first pass and one for the second, the price looks even better!

These are best ones & have many uses

Good quality