Talk:Cotton pad

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I found this article while searching for what I think is commonly called "cotton ball" in English, because I hoped to find info on the origins/processes behind the common product cotton balls. Instead I found this, which is about cotton pads, an article which the past decades more or less have taken over for cotton balls, as it in many ways is more practical. I was very surprised when I read this part of the article though:

"Cotton pads were first invented around the early 1970s. The first patents for the invention date from 1973, claimed as a new invention for face and nail cleaning and a substitute for cotton tips. "

These large, around 2" in diameter, pads made from pressed cotton has not been used as a substitute for cotton tips (more commonly referred to by the brand name "Q-tips"). These are two very different products and mostly used for very different purposes.

Since English is not my mother tongue and I am not totally sure if the every day term used for the round balls made from cotton fibers really is "cotton balls", I do not feel confident enough to edit the article though (even less so since I see it has been transferred, which I am not sure what means). I chose to instead add this to the talk page, hoping that somebody else can do something about this.

Glad that the article was kept, as such articles about very common articles, sometimes are very useful, also as a more ellaborate dictionary alternative.

Thank you!

Peapeam (talk) 19:25, 31 August 2009 (UTC)

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Currently there's a weird part of this article, the phobia part. It's very poorly written, so I'm editing it to proper standards, but I don't know what to make of it besides. --Kd9280 (talk) 19:43, 18 December 2009 (UTC)

"Most cotton balls are not made of cotton"

The only sources for this claim are: a sensationalist ABC news article from 2013 about models eating cotton balls in place of food so as to not gain weight, and an article by a doctor in 1986 discussing the benefits of natural cotton over nylon; the rest of the sources are merely about labeling laws, and one of them, by some cotton institute is regarding the standard cotton label for placing on packages of cotton balls etc that truly are made of cotton (Which ALL the cotton ball packages I've seen do have on their packaging)

This entire paragraph is misleading, at best, and the claim that "most" cotton balls are not cotton is not reliably sourced, and it is not true, therefore shall I remove it.

Also, the one liner about cotton ball phobia is absurd, and I'm removing that too - also sourced from a sensationalist ABC news story Firejuggler86 (talk) 04:33, 6 April 2020 (UTC)