Beyond Dryer: The Truth About Bounce

When visiting my favorite computer support website, I didn't want to find information on common household products such as Bounce brand dryer sheets. However, like many successful Internet communities, this feature sometimes exceeds its original expectations. An article published on September 12 caught my attention: "The doctor's lounge" (usually reserved for birthday announcements or other off-topic remarks). I was surprised to find that this article was written like the ad text of Bounce brand dryer sheets:

U.S. Postal Service sent messages to all letter operators requesting to put a stretch cloth in their uniform pocket to keep Yellow jacket [sic] far.

Always use them when playing baseball and football. Really. The yellow jacket just turns to you.

1. All this time, you just put a bounce on the dryer! When you place a bed sheet near them, it chases the ants. It also rejects rats.

2. In the base area, lay sheets around the trailer or seated car and prevent rats from entering the car.

3. It eliminates odors without opening books and photo albums too often.

4. It repels mosquitoes. During outdoor activities in the mosquito season, please attach a bouncer to your belt.

This post continues to claim a total of 21 "replacement" products. I'm surprised. Money can't buy such advertisements! My first thought was "What's in these dry sheets?" Of course, if they reject insects, they must be toxic. Therefore, I turned to major resources to counteract the hazards of any household consumer goods, the Material Safety Data Sheet. Want to find carcinogenic substances (or at least not friendly to the environment); write in the most serious health warning: "Infant or family pets ingested used or unused sheets may cause obstruction of the gastrointestinal tract, I feel Very disappointed." The doctor or veterinarian should be contacted. "Thus, they may cause constipation, but apparently the manufacturer doesn't worry about what will happen if you really digest it.

"Biodegradable fabric softener", whatever it is, is the activity on the sheets Chemicals. If you feed mice with enough food (more than 1% of their body weight), it will kill them. It sounds like evidence to me until I realize that if I eat 1% of my weight, I I may also be ill

So far, I think 21 statements are a bit suspicious. I must make a formal statement on the product website BounceEverywhere.com. The owner of the Procter and Gamble Bounce brand did not propose Additional insecticide requirements, some posters on the Bounce message board: "When in the outdoor area where the wasps are having problems, simply apply fresh bounces to the hair, put on clothes and exposed skin. Salyersville, Kentucky. Obviously, Bounce does not try to deny that it can fight off insects, even if they do not directly promote insects for this reason. As I further explored the post, I found a trend. They allegedly repelled mosquitoes, wasps, yellow croakers, moths, locusts, cockroaches, ants, mice, mice, chipmunks, and even birds! Dissolve the flakes in water, then use it to remove the toughening grease from the pan, even wallpaper on the walls! Yes, that's right. Someone posted on BounceEverywhere.com claiming that they had used bounce to remove Wallpaper . Bounce's official position on the post is "We will not revise your comments and therefore are not responsible for the content or its accuracy." After reading these strange claims, my research has undergone a cynical transformation. Of course, there must be an unbiased resource to analyze these claims. So I checked my favorite authority to confirm and expose the modern myth, snopes.com.

Snopes'an article entitled "Bounce" put forward 16 statements about Bounce in the highly-spread e-mail that was first recorded in 2003. The article stated that two of the 16 statements had a clear victory for Bounce (both related to its odor resistance properties), and the other four claims were definitely not, and the balance was not a particularly valid, invalid or measurable category.

At this point I got lost. How can I reject all claims I have found so far? I put my research back in the original post and started my dilemma. I saw my comment sparked more responses. "Is it an expulsion elephant, see any elephant?" released SpywareDr. When another poster claims:

* Filling your car's fuel tank with a neck and increasing fuel consumption by 430%, my research can only manage to ask more questions.

* Paste ten sheets of paper on your two car bumpers to prevent accidents - it will exclude other vehicles.

* Place a piece of paper in the dishwasher and your plate will be wrinkle-free.

* One or two on the bottom of your computer case will prevent BSOD [windows errors] and damaged files.

I have not yet seen the difference in gas mileage, but I have not experienced any accident since 1985. My food has no wrinkles and my computer is perfect.

The Internet is the most common tool in the information age, but it seems to thrive on misinformation and false information. Realizing that after all this Internet research I haven't put these mysterious sheets in my hands, I went to the grocery store to buy a box for my own experiment. Staring at the aisle, the way I work, my way, in the original scent bouncing dry sheets should be on the shelf. "Outdoor fresh scent", "fresh linen" and "spring awakening", these boxes were announced. I resigned, smelled like a "summer orchard," and put one in my jacket pocket. Two days later, I visited a friend with a small pet lovebird. When the bird jumped over the sofa and entered my thighs, I remember the dryer bedsheets still in my jacket, only a few inches away from this lovely bird.

Although my research shows that Bounce may not be bird repellent, I did not see any mosquitoes, wasps, yellow jackets, moths, locusts, crickets, ants, mice, mice or chipmunks. Or elephants, for that matter. But the box containing the rest of my Bounce desiccant will remain in its place: in my laundry room, on the shelf above my dryer.

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