Pros:
- Good price - these items often are on sale for $1 (reg. $1.50).
- Slick filler - when you need your order to reach a minimum amount (like when you want to use a certain coupon), these are one of the few very cheap items in the store.
- Keeps hands soft and not dried out, as other popular hand sanitizers do.
- Contains alcohol which can be used as an antiseptic on the go. This is especially handy when you're trying on earrings in the store.
- Handy size - it fits a silicone skin (must purchase separately) that can keep the Pocket-Bac on your keyring.
Cons:
- Scent is very strong. Hands smell from the Pocket-Bac even 2 hours after application!
- If not on sale, the price is $1.50 for the small bottle.
Bottom Line: The Bath & Body Works Pocket-Bac is essential for a purse, especially in the summertime when you are often out and away from a sink. The wide array of choices feature smells much more pleasant than comparable brands like Purell, but be sure to get a scent that you enjoy because you'll be smelling it on yourself for a while!
Is it a bad smell that the fact that the smell lingers is on the cons list?
ReplyDeleteYeah because it's a pervasive, deep smell. The type where you walk and you leave lingering scent. If you have a really good-scented one, you're ok. But otherwise, beware, bring on the nose-clips!
ReplyDeleteYea, my sister complains that they are strong smelling but i LOVE these hand sanitizers
ReplyDeleteI think I have about ten right now, and I think I am running low!!
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I buy them when the sale runs. I also have about 10 right now :) IMHO, the best B&BW scent is Black Amethyst but unfortunately, the one scent that the Pocket-Bacs don't come in is Black Amethyst.
ReplyDeletei loooove japanese cherry blossom... its my absolute favorite...
ReplyDeleteyou should tell them you want it!
I did, actually. But they don't seem to take my not-so-subtle hints that seriously. Japanese Cherry Blossom is my all-time nono! My silly putty got ruined that way. I mistakenly played with my putty after sanitizing my hands with that stuff and it was forever tainted with the reek! I wanted to see how long it'll stay embedded and believe it or not, it was in there for about a year! Then I threw it out.
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