Charlie’s here. And he’s in your ass.

Or at least around it, if not exactly in it.  Now, if you want to know just who Charlie is, and why Charlie’s visiting your peri-anal area, read on.  If you want to know whether Charlie’s a boy or a girl, well, we can’t help you there.  It’s up to you, and as usual, there’s no judgment here at MP.

One Wipe Charlies are flushable moist wipes, a product brought to you by the Dollar Shave Club, whose sales model I panned in a recent post.  (See http://www.manpossible.com/toilette/shaving-the-layers-off-the-dollar-shave-club.)  That critique aside, I like this product a lot.  Before reviewing One Wipe Charlies, though, let me take a walk down memory lane – back to the first MP post I read before becoming a gurumer and MP blogger myself.

My first reaction to MP’s Dry Wet Dry post (at http://www.manpossible.com/toilette/dry-wet-dry) was to wonder if the apocalypse was truly upon us; or, if maybe we men were running out of things to worry about.  Not that I have a philosophical problem with a man prancing around proud of his fresh-scented ass, mind you.  I just suspected wet wipes for men’s butts represented the proverbial "solution in search of a problem."

To wit, brethren, I came to that post with clean hands, literally and figuratively, never having besmirched my digits with unwanted tidbits from below.  Now, I confess to being a bit of a neat freak -- dare I say anal-retentive -- about hygiene south of the border.  In fact, I hadn’t realized it until reading the MP post, but I'd had a longstanding dream of keeping my hands free of my fecal matter.  Not a grand dream, perhaps, but my dream, ranking somewhere between a lifelong desire to drive a monster truck and a fantasy of winning a church bingo game.

Toward that cleanly end, if I needed to wrap my wiping hand up like the Mummy, fine.  No Hershey’s Kisses since I first started wiping my own butt.  So, I wondered how the good folks at Cottonelle – or Dollar Shave Club – could possibly improve upon a decades-long streak of being streak-free.

Oh, how wrong I was.  After reading MP’s Dry Wet Dry piece, I not only tried the Cottonelles wipes, but liked the experience pretty well, especially for those evacuations not followed by a shower.  And I wound up as a MP gurumer to boot.  Now it’s come full circle, as I get the chance to review another butt wipe.

One Wipe Charlies are effective.  They’re modestly moistened, which I prefer to the wetter Cottonelle wipes.  And they smell more natural and less like chemicals, thanks to a formulation that includes Aloe Vera, peppermint aromatics and chamomile.  And it really does leave you feeling clean with that soft stinging sensation, in a good way.  It’s like a tea party in your ass, and everyone’s invited.  Well, Charlie’s definitely invited, anyway.

A word of caution.  Despite the product name, one wipe is probably not enough to leave you confident of a “Mission Accomplished” level victory over Uranus.  So I recommend using the same dry-wet-dry technique recommended by MP so many moons ago.

So listen to Charlie, and wipe your troubles away!  

by ManPossible