Japanese bogs – geared up with music gamers, computerized flushes, and heated seats – are clearly not afraid of constructing a splash with their revolutionary designs.
However these innovative seats have an unlikely nemesis: bathroom paper.
Toto, a high Japanese bathroom bowl maker, stated final week that customers ought to chorus from wiping their seats with bathroom paper, because it dangers creating micro scratches on the floor.
The corporate’s recommendation got here after a collection of posts on social media complaining about scratches and discolouration.
A Toto consultant informed Japanese newspaper Mainichi Shimbun that its bidet bathroom seats are made from plastic resin because of the materials’s “resistance to detergents and its means to be molded into advanced shapes”.
Nonetheless, wiping the seat with bathroom paper or dry material could cause small, invisible scratches the place dust might accumulate, resulting in discolouration.
However Toto shouldn’t be the one producer that has suggested customers towards utilizing bathroom paper to wipe its bathroom seats.
Related suggestions have beforehand been issued by cleansing specialists and in addition revealed on life-style websites.
As a substitute of dry bathroom paper, folks advocate utilizing delicate material soaked in faucet water or detergent. Additionally they advise towards utilizing thinners, nylon or metallic scrubbers, or abrasives – all of which might injury the floor of the bathroom seat.
The corporate stated that whereas it was wanting into extra scratch-resistant supplies, “there aren’t any plans to vary the fabric right now.”
The Washlet, Toto’s flagship bidet bathroom, consists of options like an computerized lid, an air dryer and stress controls for the bidet’s water stream.
Japanese bogs, with their considerate designs seen as an extension of the nation’s hospitality tradition, have develop into an unlikely vacationer attraction for foreigners and a supply of pleasure at residence.
