Silky soft toilet paper is gluttonous glamour girl's ace in the hole
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Tiny food fighter Gal Sone says she's able to shovel down enormous quantities of food without affecting her figure because of a secret weapon that makes sure she really enjoys a good dump, according to Sunday Mainichi (10/7).
Though the 21-year-old makes a living out of being able to guzzle down massive quantities of food, she retains her svelte figure with just 45 kilograms on her 162-centimeter frame.
And Gal Sone apparently attributes her ability to eat like a horse but stay looking like a model to regular clearance of her bowels.
"She enjoys her eating, and she's blessed with incredible regularity that means she's never constipated," a spokesman for Watanabe Entertainment, Gal Sone's talent agency, tells Sunday Mainichi. "She goes to the toilet six times a day."
Periodical check-ups have showed Sone is as fit as a fiddle, despite all the rigorous eating she does. Her handlers say her secret weapon is Hane Niju (Double Feather), the revolutionary new toilet paper she uses.
Made by Mochizuki Seishi, a paper company based in Kochi, Hane Niju is Japan's highest quality toilet paper. It sells for 195 yen for a single roll compared to the average supermarket price of 298 yen for a dozen rolls.
"Gal Sone started using the paper after she was given some as a present while appearing on TV in the summer," the Watanabe Entertainment spokesman says. "She's been hooked on it ever since."
Others who have used Hane Niju have raved about it.
"It's really moist and truly gentle on the anus," a reporter who tried out the toilet paper tells Sunday Mainichi. "Normal toilet paper is usually a bit rough and bristly and can sometimes hurt a bit, but there's absolutely none of that with this one."
If soft and moist are all that's needed, surely tissues would be enough, but Hane Niju seems to have provided something extra.
"It's the result of an intensive search to find the world's softest paper," Mochizuki Seishi President Yoshimi Morisawa tells Sunday Mainichi. "We tested over 100 different types of pulp and found those from softwoods were best, so we blended and processed those. We haven't used any sort of chemical to soften the paper, so it's really good for the skin."
Regular toilet paper uses cheap pulp to cut production costs and make it easier to produce. The paper also has to be made stronger so that it can be mass-produced in a shorter time. It this adds up to make the toilet paper rough, Sunday Mainichi explains, noting that chemicals often added to soften the scrub or give it a sweeter aroma sometimes also adversely affect some people's skin. (By Ryann Connell)
（Mainichi Japan） September 28, 2007
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