# Recommend a product(s) **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 28, 2005, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-product-s/318931 "2005-08-28T02:11:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Unregistered\_Bull](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3da27b/32.png) [@Unregistered\_Bull](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unregistered_Bull)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2005, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-product-s/318931/1 "2005-08-28T02:11:16Z")
Recommend a product(s). Food, clothes, hardware, anything… My recommendations: 1)Dr Scholl’s Extra Support Insoles for Big & Tall men. These are great replacement insoles especially if your a heavy guy standin on hard surfaces all day. I put them in both work boots and tennis shoes. [http://www.drscholls.com/](http://www.drscholls.com/) 2)Victorinox Swiss Army Knives. If you like a regular pocket knife that isn’t hit or miss quality control wise, this is it. The back springs have the perfect tension to them. They come with a good factory edge. They’re very corrosion resistant to human sweat. They have loads of different models and actually com with some pretty handy tools. They’re also pretty ‘non-scary’ to the general public. [http://www.victorinox.com/](http://www.victorinox.com/) 3)Harrington and Richardson single shot shotguns and rifles. US made economical firearms that come with really good triggers out of the box and are quite accurate. [http://www.hr1871.com/](http://www.hr1871.com/) 4)Bodyglide Anti-Friction Skin Formula. This stuff works! I used to have a problem with my inner thighs chafing during long walks. I’d wear compression shorts that covered my thighs, but they were always very uncomfortable. But with this stuff, there is no need. I can walk for hours now in comfort. [http://www.bodyglide.com/](http://www.bodyglide.com/) ---
**Author:** ![John\_Carter\_of\_Mars](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/2bfe46/32.png) [@John\_Carter\_of\_Mars](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Carter_of_Mars)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2005, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-product-s/318931/2 "2005-08-28T02:32:09Z")
> [@Unregistered Bull](#): > > Recommend a product(s). Food, clothes, hardware, anything… 1)Husqvarna chain saws. 2)Ford/New Holland tractors. 3)_Registered_ Angus bulls. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Harmonix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Harmonix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonix)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2005, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-product-s/318931/3 "2005-08-28T03:08:39Z")
1. Lactaid Fast act. This stuff works for me every time. 2. Performance clothing such as Underarmour. I own Nike pro dri fit and Under armor Turf gear. I gotta give the edge to under armour. You can _feel_ the evaporation by just walking around. 3. Fast orange hand cleaner: This stuff will get anything off your hands. 4. Nalgene: Absolutely indestructable water bottles. 5. Logitech keyboard and mice: They make good, comfortable input peripherals. 6. For you climbers out there : Stealth C4 rubber. I own a pair of mad rock flash and 5.10 Anasazi velcros. The rubber on the Anasazi Velcros is in a completely different league. It’ll sitck to anything, but unfortunately it wears pretty fast. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2005, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-product-s/318931/4 "2005-08-28T03:37:52Z")
> [@Harmonix](#): > > 1. Logitech keyboard and mice: They make good, comfortable input peripherals. And trackballs, which is what I use. My recommendation is Intuition razor for women…it has a soap strip on it, and it’s perfect to use in the shower. Love it. ---
**Author:** ![Zoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a4c791/32.png) [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2005, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-product-s/318931/5 "2005-08-28T04:23:58Z")
Zud cleanser is good for getting out stubborn rust stains in porcelain. (This thread is a great idea!) ---
**Author:** ![Stinkum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Stinkum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stinkum)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2005, 7:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-product-s/318931/6 "2005-08-28T07:02:04Z")
Simple Green cleanser. It will clean ANYTHING, no matter how icky. Cuts grease. Smells good, too. Trader Joe’s peanut butter filled pretzel nuggets. The chocolate covered ones are great, too. ---
**Author:** ![TLDRIDKJKLOLFTW](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/51bf81/32.png) [@TLDRIDKJKLOLFTW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TLDRIDKJKLOLFTW)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2005, 7:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-product-s/318931/7 "2005-08-28T07:15:16Z")
Trader Joe’s **Refreshing Aloe Vera Shaving Gel** - $1.99 for the single best shave I’ve ever had. I’m one of those guys with a face so sensitive that it feels and looks like I shaved with a piece of broken glass even after shaving with a brand-new Gilette Mach 3 _in the shower_. This stuff really glues to your face - it doesn’t foam at all - and gives you an amazingly slick and smooth shaving experience with a cooling aloe afterglow. The **Proactiv** acne system - it’s chemically just the same crap you can buy over the counter, but something about the way that all three components work together in harmony is the closest thing to a miracle cure for acne that I’ve encountered. ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2005, 8:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-product-s/318931/8 "2005-08-28T08:17:09Z")
Qiagen RNA extraction kits. ---
**Author:** ![Harmonix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Harmonix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonix)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2005, 8:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-product-s/318931/9 "2005-08-28T08:19:24Z")
Ah, venturing into the realm of science are we? Well then, at work we have the Light cycler. Which will perform qRT-PCR in under an hour. ---
**Author:** ![SnakesCatLady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4af34b/32.png) [@SnakesCatLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SnakesCatLady)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2005, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-product-s/318931/10 "2005-08-28T15:51:57Z")
Pine pellet cat litter. I actually use **Equine Pine** , but it’s the same stuff sold under various names as cat litter ( **Feline Pine** , and PetsMart has a house brand) - and much cheaper in 40lb bags. No sharp little clay shards on the floor! And great odor control!! With 8 cats and 4 litter boxes in the cat suite, cheap and odor control are both priorities and hard to find in the same product. This one does both. ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2005, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-product-s/318931/11 "2005-08-28T17:06:32Z")
> [@Harmonix](#): > > Light cycler. Which will perform qRT-PCR in under an hour. We have four of them. 😃 Plus one of the high resolution melters. And three MagNA Pure DNA extraction robots. ---
**Author:** ![Fiveyearlurker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/da6949/32.png) [@Fiveyearlurker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiveyearlurker)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2005, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-product-s/318931/12 "2005-08-28T17:12:48Z")
> [@Smeghead](#): > > Qiagen RNA extraction kits. Bollocks! Have you tried the Arcturus Picopure? Good stuff, man. ---
**Author:** ![TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tellmei_mnotcrazy/32/3419_2.png) [@TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TellMeI_mNotCrazy)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2005, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-product-s/318931/13 "2005-08-28T20:23:25Z")
Mr. Clean Magic Eraser… wish I could find them here. Those things work amazingly well. Scrub And Toss? The soap filled pads that you can throw away after using. They were perfect for work where there was never a bottle of detergent or sponge. And I would cut them into quarters - one quarter was perfect for washing lunch dishes. ---
**Author:** ![fishbicycle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aeb1de/32.png) [@fishbicycle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fishbicycle)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2005, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-product-s/318931/14 "2005-08-28T21:39:45Z")
**Diskeeper** defragmenting program for Windows 2000, bv Executive Software. The defrag utility that comes with Windows is garbage. Diskeeper will line your files up in contiguous order from the head of the disk(s) out, with NTFS, FAT32 or both. It will do a directory consolidation on boot-up and put all the directories at the start of the disk. You can set it to defrag whenever it needs to, or when your computer goes into screensaver mode, or overnight, or anytime you wish… it works like a charm and I would recommend it to anyone with Win2K or XP. ---
**Author:** ![vetbridge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5e925/32.png) [@vetbridge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vetbridge)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2005, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-product-s/318931/15 "2005-08-28T21:49:47Z")
The Skychair [http://www.skychairs.com/](http://www.skychairs.com/) I had used them on a couple of friends’ porches. When I bought a house recently I ordered one complete with arm and footrests, drink holder, etc. It is hanging in my livingroom. Although most people think it is weird at first, they eventually are sitting in it and are reluctant to leave it. Best hundred bucks I’ve spent in a long time. And if you are wondering . . . the answer is yes. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Alice\_The\_Goon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Alice\_The\_Goon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alice_The_Goon)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2005, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-product-s/318931/16 "2005-08-28T22:58:34Z")
**Abreva** , for cold sores. If I start applying it every few hours at the first tingle that signals an impending eruption, it will often prevent one from even popping out. If it does pop out anyway, it cuts healing time by days for me. **Bisquick** - it really does make the best pancakes! Actually, _anything_ from Trader Joe’s. I’ve never bought a product there that I didn’t love. **Microsoft Anti-Spyware** - I know, I know. But it cleaned up a lot of problems I was having a while back, and while I still have to run Spybot along with it, it seems to keep a lot of problems at bay. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2005, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-product-s/318931/17 "2005-08-28T23:02:08Z")
> [@vetbridge](#): > > And if you are wondering . . . the answer is yes. 😉 Thanks for reading my mind, at least. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2005, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-product-s/318931/18 "2005-08-28T23:47:50Z")
“The Works” toilet bowl cleaner, 79 cents at ‘Big Lots’. I’m a slovenly bachelor, and I’m not proud to say it but I let things get really damn bad before I clean them. When nothing else worked I tried this stuff, and it’s so cheap and works so good it must be killing me slowly by having it in my home. Maybe not so slowly. ---
**Author:** ![pinkfreud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pinkfreud/32/17603_2.png) [@pinkfreud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pinkfreud)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2005, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-product-s/318931/19 "2005-08-29T00:13:49Z")
I have always been very pleased with products from [Burt’s Bees](http://www1.burtsbees.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/StoreCatalogDisplay?langId=-1&catalogId=10001&storeId=10001). ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2005, 6:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-product-s/318931/20 "2005-08-29T06:36:04Z")
**Trader Joes’s Natural Peanut Butter**. I prefer salted, creamy. Just peanuts and salt, for $1.89 a jar. No trans fats. The best tasting peanut butter ever. About half the price (or more) of your Smucker’s or other grocery store natural PBs. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-product-s/318931.md?page=2)