Consumer Speak

Tissue World Magazine, Departments: Consumer Speak

 

Derin Oyekan is co-founder and CMO of REEL, US-based exclusively bamboo product tissue company.

As a Senior Millennial I’m constantly working on reducing my carbon footprint

Derin Oyekan is co-founder and CMO of REEL, the US-based exclusively bamboo product tissue company. He explains how his personal preferences inspired his business strategy. Obviously...

ConsumerSpeak: Tissue’s greatest collector?

Silvio Fioravanti is an archaeologist and lives near Lucca in Italy. He has a large collection of pocket hankie packs – at the last count, 11,972 different tissue pocket...

Antibacterial kitchen wipes so perfect at messy meal times

With a demanding toddler to look after, self-confessed lazy shopper Gemma O’reilly, a mum and journalist who lives in west London, has had to think again about her tissue...

From massage therapy to Muay Thai, quality tissue goes hand in glove

Nadia Hussain is a therapist living and working in London. In her spare time she practises Muay Thai, a form of mixed martial art that originates from Thailand.

My three-point guide to tissue etiquette

Cheapest: too rough even for the toughest of men. Middle rank: comfortable, quality, full-bodied. Luxury: generally pointless, but essential for a girlfriend’s nose. I use toilet...
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“Don’t go anywhere without Kleenex” as my mother used to say back in the...

Charlotte Minor is a long-time Colorado resident but grew up in Maryland and Michigan and also lived in Arizona for a time. Now retired, she worked for a decade...

“It’s a luxury I can’t do without”

By Chloe Setter Chloe Setter, 31, is head of policy at a UK children’s charity. She lives in South West London. I rather...

Building a tissue empire from the Adelaide Mill… England

Angela Dawson is a writer and poet who has featured on community radio and at various venues around Melbourne, Australia, since 2000. Originally from Manchester, England, this year saw the...

From spotlight to campsite quality tissue is essential

Donna Sawyer is a finance journalist living and working in Sydney, Australia. With much of her work on camera, she looks for high quality tissue products that are beneficial for the skin and environmentally...

A tes souhaits!*

Now living and working in London after 11 years in France, Rebecca was in New York when she discovered the one thing the much-loved multi-tasking kitchen roll is not great for. TWM/1....

When it comes to the perfect wedding speech… a Best Man should never be...

Unaccustomed as he is to public speaking, Adam, who is based in Bristol, England, finds inspiration conveniently comes to hand when he sits and thinks about his speech.

Wherever I am in the world I’m never without face wipes!

Only now after putting pen to paper – or keystroke to screen – has Australian Aimee Andersen, 33, living in London, realised she is a one-woman research project into tissue use...

Truly multi-functional – mopping up and smoothing out the spills and thrills of a...

Mum-of-two Louise Stemp is the Account Director of Contrast Creative, a full service creative and branding agency based in Manchester, UK. But the creativity doesn’t end there. Here, she charts...

Our top priority is quality – one high-quality product does the job of two...

Cenk Guner Cenk Guner lives in Istanbul and works as a country manager for Industrial Process Products sales and business development in Turkey and Europe....

Tissue ‘the unsung hero of our daily lives’

Dave Ripper is one of many to discover how prominent tissue is only when asked, as here, to recall their encounters with the vital aid to living. He lives in the south of England...

Generation gain

Mum Jenny’s eye for a bargain – and bringing home the bounty “by the truck load” – was a joke which became a family affair for the Lawrence household

The long and the short of it… A case of moral fibre

Alexandra Stuthridge lives in Vancouver, Canada, and is the technical business manager of the BioProducts Institute (BPI), a globally-leading research cluster at the University of British Columbia (UBC). BPI...

For this creative cook the kitchen roll smooths away any spillage disasters

Charlie is a Bristol, UK-based food blogger and content editor who also runs a pop up pudding (dessert) club. When she isn’t eating or writing she can be found...

HANDY FOR OIL SPILLS, WASPS, BEES, SPIDERS, THE DOG … OH, AND YES, FOR...

Callum John is a writer who lives in England. He has contributed to various publications during a long career. He is also a gardener, a cook, a walker, an...
Ibrahim Kareem

I’M A ONE-STOP BULK-BUY SHOPPER WHO GOES FOR QUALITY… IT’S CHEAPER IN THE END

Ibrahim Kareem is an SEO executive for an employment law consultant company in Manchester, UK. He also manages a blog (marketingknowhow.co.uk), where he offers beginner level marketing tips for individuals...

‘I hate to walk around looking like John Wayne’

Paul Seviour (far right) reveals why the wrong sort of loo roll doesn’t make his day “I have never been overly brand conscious and I certainly...

Consumer Speak

Greg Williams is a tour director and lives in Hobart, the capital of Tasmania. As a Tassie, he has a knack for local humour that makes him a central...

Toilet Twinning initiative brings new appreciation to luxuries like toilet roll

Lesley Quirk is a specialist relationship manager for a charity initiative called Toilet Twinning. She liaises with corporates who support its campaign to provide clean water, proper toilets...
The four sisters: With babe-in-arms Jo

From the war years’ ‘Make Do and Mend’ … to spend, spend, spend to...

Jo Horner grew up in north west England with her parents and five siblings. She enjoyed a varied career in education, working in Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire and Northamptonshire. She is...
Tissue World Magazine Jan Feb 2024

CONSUMERSPEAK: It’s in the bag – from the most colourful shop in the world

Alexandra Lewis lives in South London and works in marketing and communications at professional services firm Aon. A recent road trip across Portugal with her husband Dave led to Portuguese paper...

When a beautiful Danish model is in tears breaking up with her Boyfriend via...

Whether it’s wiping away the wrong make-up, padding out a little needed cleavage, or keeping the camera eyepiece dry, no fashion shoot ever has enough tissue. Douglas Voisin, a...
David Crosweller, co-founder charity 'Sanitation First', a charity based in north Wiltshire, England.

‘WE REALLY NEED TO TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR HOW WE LIVE AND THE IMPACT WE...

David Crosweller is the co-founder of the charity Sanitation First, a charity based in north Wiltshire, England, which currently works in Tamil Nadu, south-east India. We...

When you are dealing with those messy creatures – otherwise known as children –...

Originally from Australia, Mary-Lou Mcdonald is a serial traveller and has lived all over the world working primarily as a nanny, in which profession her keen interest in the martial art...

Vicki Goodburn lives in Auckland, New Zealand, with her partner Andrew, three-year old son...

The tissue products I use are kitchen rolls, box tissues, baby wipes and toilet paper. Kitchen Rolls We go through a lot...

‘When cooking and cleaning, and polishing the bike… nothing beats the kitchen towel’

Paul Ashcroft lives in the picturesque village of Rivington in the north west of England. He works in the water industry and in his spare time he is a...

Lights, camera, clean-up…

How the paper towel helps in wiping down cameras to patting down the shine on the foreheads of talent on set Johnny Domingo lives in Miami, Florida, and is the chief executive of Blue...

“Friends laugh at my mini obsession”

By Simon Bird Originally from Manchester, Simon Bird now lives in Bristol in the south-west of England. He works in business research for one of the...

I refused to stockpile … but then word swept through the office that a...

Simon Creasey, Freelance journalist UK freelance journalist Simon Creasey had to abandon his principles when he was down to the last roll at home, and...

Whether at home or abroad, when buying tissue products I look for a balance...

Charlotte Lynn is a teacher from Canada working in the UK I love travelling and have been to many parts of the world and also...

TWM helps Wesley open ‘a Pandora’s box’ of issues with his family tissue use

Born in the UK, Wesley Sawkins talks about his preference for bulk buying, his scepticism on presentation and corporates, and his experiences of living in Singapore

CONSUMERSPEAK: Just what the doctor ordered

“Dr. K” – as he is known professionally – is a Swedish doctor who lives in the UK. Here, he talks about his fondness for bulk-buying tissue and kitchen towel products...

Family tissue: for babies’ noses… and Construction Club

Creativity is at the heart of Brazilian Melissa Hoemke’s family. After living in London for 12 years she wants to do right by the children and the environment, and...

From personal preference – to a tissue start-up

Ryan Fritsch co-founded the US company Cloud Paper, the 100% bamboo and plastic-free paper brand, in the spring of 2019. Here, he discusses the long-term, personal tissue choices which...

The best loos* yet!

Sharmaine Collins works in project management at London’s Tate, an institution that houses the UK’s national collection of British and international art. She talks to TWM about a...

And baby makes three … plus lots more tissue product

With a first child on the way, soon-to-be-dad Anders Wendel, originally from Denmark but now living and working in London, suspects he’ll soon be learning a lot more that he used...