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Toilet roll paper: what's actually in it?

Format note: toilet paper has no ingredient list like food does. This page therefore adapts the format: instead of a verbatim ingredient list, each panel quotes the material/composition as printed (virgin pulp, recycled, bamboo, or a blend), plus the ply and sheet/roll claims as printed. Nothing here is a lab test — softness, strength and dissolvability claims are the brands' claims, quoted as such, not verified by this page.

This page does not give a health score, a softness ranking or a "best" pick, and it does not show prices (they change weekly).

The headline, in 30 seconds

• Almost every mainstream roll panelled here claims 100% virgin pulp. FairPrice house brands, Pursoft, Kleenex, Vinda, Tempo, Softess and Premier all use that wording. Virgin pulp is the default, not the exception, on Singapore shelves.
• Ply is not the whole story. Rolls range from 2-ply to 4-ply, but ply alone does not tell you sheet size, sheet count or thickness — a 2-ply roll with 500 sheets is a different product from a 4-ply roll with 200 sheets. Compare sheet count as printed, not ply alone.
• Bamboo is the main alternative material. Naturesoft blends bamboo pulp with pure pulp (4-ply); pure-bamboo rolls are now panelled too — Cloversoft Unbleached Bamboo (3-ply and 2-ply, FSC, chlorine-free) and Bambooloo Premium White (3-ply, 100% virgin bamboo pulp), both added in the 5 November 2026 re-audit from Singapore online channels (Shopee SG / RedMart / eco-stores). Paseo also joins the virgin-pulp set (Butterfly 3-ply and 4-ply).
• "OBA-free" and "FSC-certified" are the two extra claims to watch. OBA-free means no optical brightening agents; FSC means the fibre is claimed from responsibly managed forests. Neither changes the pulp type — they are additional claims on top of it.
• Recycled-content rolls are surprisingly hard to verify on SG shelves. Secondary guides claim some Pursoft rolls are recycled, while Pursoft's own retail listings claim 100% virgin pulp — that conflict is flagged, not resolved, on this page. Do not assume a roll is recycled unless the pack says so.

At a glance — composition and ply as printed

Panelled with material/ply/pack claims as printed: 17 products (12 before this re-audit, 5 added 5 November 2026: Cloversoft Unbleached Bamboo 3-ply and 2-ply, Paseo Butterfly 3-ply, Paseo 4-ply, Bambooloo Premium White). Seen-but-not-verified: 7 entries below.

House brands

Branded rolls — virgin pulp

Bamboo and Paseo — re-audit additions (checked 5 Nov 2026)

FairPrice's paper & tissue category lists Cloversoft and Paseo, but no composition section was retrieved for them in the first pass. Both are now panelled from Singapore online channels (Shopee SG official store, RedMart/Lazada brand page, Watsons SG), plus Bambooloo, a Singapore bamboo brand sold via eco-stores.

Little Farms — checked 6 Nov 2026: no additional products found

Little Farms (littlefarms.com) was checked for toilet roll paper in this pass. No toilet roll / bathroom tissue product was found on Little Farms in the searches run (the searches returned café/venue pages and unrelated bamboo-toilet-paper brands sold elsewhere, not a Little Farms grocery listing). That is a checked-and-none-found result, not an unchecked gap: if Little Farms later stocks a bathroom tissue range, it should be added as its own rows with pack composition. Do not infer a Little Farms house-brand roll from other grocers' ranges.

Seen but not verified — do not panel until checked

• Scott, Walch, Zappy, Botare, Kao, Elleair and other FairPrice paper & tissue brands — FairPrice's paper & tissue category lists these brands, but no composition/ply/pack section was retrieved for their toilet rolls in this pass. (Cloversoft and Paseo were panelled in the 5 Nov 2026 re-audit — see panels.) Zappy: FairPrice lists the brand, but no Zappy toilet roll composition was found — Zappy kitchen towels are 100% virgin pulp, which is a different product. Scott: only guide mentions (virgin pulp / Scott Extra) were found, no pack composition retrieved.
• Bamboolove — Singapore brand, 100% FSC-certified virgin bamboo, ships only within Singapore; ply and sheet count were not retrieved in this pass, so it is not panelled.
• Pure-bamboo rolls other than Cloversoft and Bambooloo — widely sold via Lazada/Shopee/Amazon SG, but no mainstream SG supermarket pack section was verified in this pass; do not merge online bamboo claims into the Naturesoft blended panel.
• Recycled-content rolls — no SG pack verified as recycled in this pass; the Pursoft recycled claim in a secondary guide conflicts with Pursoft's own virgin-pulp listing (see panel).
• Scented / printed / coloured variants of the panelled brands — scent and print variants may carry different claims; each variant needs its own pack check.
• Giant / Sheng Siong / Cold Storage / Donki / Mustafa / Meidi-Ya / Le Petit Depot / RedMart toilet-roll ranges beyond the panels above — category pages were checked for brand names, but pack composition sections were not retrieved for most variants.
• Wet toilet paper / flushable wipes — different product (wet wipes, with liquid ingredients); deliberately excluded from this dry-roll page.

Nutrition — what the numbers say

Nutrition information does not apply to toilet roll paper, and it is not printed for it. Toilet paper is not food or drink: it has no energy, protein, fat, carbohydrate, sugars or sodium content to compare, and no Nutri-Grade. This page therefore does not invent, estimate or borrow any nutrition numbers, and it keeps comparing what the packs do print — material/ply/sheet count — exactly as before. The nutrition pass adds nothing numerical to this page, by design, and the material panels above are unchanged.

If a future version of this page adds a related paper product that does carry a printed composition claim (for example a wet wipe with liquid ingredients), that product would need its own section and its own pack source — it would not be merged into these dry-roll rows.

How to read a toilet roll pack — the jargon, in plain English

Virgin pulp / virgin fibre

Fibre from trees that have not been used as paper before, as opposed to recycled fibre from used paper. "Pure pulp" and "pure virgin pulp" are the same idea in different brand wording.

Recycled

Made from recovered paper fibre. A roll is only recycled if the pack says so — guides and shop descriptions are not a substitute for the pack claim (see the Pursoft conflict).

Bamboo pulp

Fibre from bamboo grass, not trees. A "bamboo + pure pulp" roll is a blend; a "100% bamboo" roll is not a blend. Read which one the pack states.

Ply

The number of layers in each sheet: 2-ply is two layers, 3-ply three, 4-ply four. More ply usually feels thicker, but ply does not state sheet size or sheet count.

Sheets per roll / rolls per pack

The actual quantity: e.g. 200 sheets × 10 rolls. Two packs with the same ply can contain very different total sheet counts — compare total sheets, not just ply or roll count.

OBA-free

Free of optical brightening agents — chemicals that make paper look whiter/brighter under light. OBA-free is a manufacturing claim, not a pulp-type claim.

FSC-certified

Forest Stewardship Council certification: the fibre is claimed to come from responsibly managed forests. It certifies sourcing, not softness or strength.

Embossed

Pattern pressed into the paper (e.g. weave or floral pattern). It affects texture and sometimes ply bonding, not the pulp type.

What this page is not

• Not a lab test. Softness, strength, absorbency and dissolvability were not measured; brand claims are quoted as brand claims.
• Not a softness ranking, and not a "best" pick. Ply and material as printed are not a ranking.
• Not a price comparison. Prices change weekly; pack counts and compositions change less often, but still change.
• Not complete. The brands in seen-but-not-verified are not yet panelled, for the verification reasons given, not hidden.

Sources and method

Checked 5–6 November 2026 from: FairPrice product pages (Naturesoft, Tempo, Pure Soft, paper & tissue category brand list); Cold Storage listings (Pursoft 4-ply, Kleenex/Vinda related listings); secondary Singapore guides (Home & Decor, Best in Singapore) for Onwards, Softess, Kleenex Ultra Soft and Premier wording — all flagged as secondary where used; Vinda global brand statement for virgin wood pulp; Little Farms searches (no toilet-roll product found). Re-audit 5 November 2026: Cloversoft Official Store on Shopee SG and RedMart/Lazada brand page (100% unbleached bamboo, FSC, chlorine-free, 3-ply 10×200 and 2-ply 10×220); Shopee SG Paseo Butterfly 3-ply listing (100% pure pulp, Dermatest); Watsons SG Paseo 4-ply listing (100% pure virgin pulp, OBA-free); The Hive Eco Store SG and Singapore guides for Bambooloo Premium White (100% virgin bamboo pulp, 3-ply, 220 sheets × 36 rolls); Bamboolove SG site (100% FSC virgin bamboo — ply/sheet count not retrieved). Full per-fact source list is in the accompanying research notes. Nutrition section added 5–6 November 2026: figures are standardised to per 100 g or per 100 ml where the source gives per-100 figures; per-serving-only figures are labelled as such and are not converted; sugars are total sugars as printed, not added sugars, unless the source states added sugars; salt = sodium × 2.5. Where a pack section could not be retrieved, the panel says so instead of presenting a guide summary as a pack fact.