Have you ever wondered why tissues are white? I sort of took it for granted that tissues were white.
I was quite surprised to find that Daishowa is selling them black!!
- Do tissues have to be white?
Any thoughts on black tissues? Would you buy them if you had a cold?
Do you feel that black tissues are more stylish?
I don’t suppose the black tissue is more environmental?
However, one thing that does raise the eyebrow with black tissues, is perhaps the price – 20 boxes for $149 – that is quite an expensive box of tissues.
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That’s an interesting thought. Never wondererd why tissues were always made white. And to think my dad worked for Proctor & Gamble for 25 years and I never asked him why.
Black Tissues are the best
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Black tissues are wonderful looking.
I have black tissues from the train station giver outers. Haven’t tried them yet though!
I find them to be more stylish than white tissues, but they’re probably pretty disgusting after use…
The reason tissues are normally white is due to the customer. White is a symbol of purity, cleanliness, and health. When we think of the color white, we think of hospitals and clean bathrooms disinfected. When we think of the color black, we more often than not think of death, pestilence, disease, and unclean.
Therefore as a marketing ploy, (and also to save on costs for dying the tissues), more often than not they are white, because consumers have a natural aversion to other colors of tissue.
Could it be they are white from lack of dye? Most papers don’t hold dye so well when smothered in wet, soggy tears and boogers. Especially tissue papers!
Thank you for voting for the black tissues! It certainly made me think – but considering the price, I think I am going to have to keep the white tissues on the shopping list !
Good comment – 25 years at P and G – I wonder what he would have made of black tissues!
How interesting that you got black tissues from the train station tissue distributors! Lucky you
Yes, I agree they have a style to them – particularly if you are designing with a contemporary feel to apartment living perhaps ….