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Get lint out of your belly button

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By Master Blaster

Hesogomu Karametoru (Belly Button Sesame Mixer-Catchers) has been flying off the shelves of major department stores all over Japan, and it’s no surprise. This product fulfills a basic human need to clean one’s navel, otherwise known as “the forgotten orifice.”

Before the egghead biologists write in and complain: the belly button is not an orifice, but it certainly needs cleaning like one. In further medical news, Japanese people don’t have sesame seeds in their navels. It’s just the slang term for belly button lint.

Product maker Sosu may have hit the niche jackpot with this grossly underused idea. Up to now most of us have been left to improvisation, cleaning ourselves with whatever was lying around the house like broken glass, pipe cleaners, or the barrel of a handgun.

This kit replaces these effective but hazardous makeshift tools with a pack of 10 fluffy cotton swabs and a tube of organic, plant-based gel which absorbs dirt. If you haven’t figured it out yet, you put the gel on the swab and swish it around in your belly button for a time proportional to the number of sit-ups you need.

At the price of 1,890 yen, you might be wondering why buy this instead of some regular Q-Tips and a tube of KY. First, you’d be spared the embarrassment of having to buy KY. Second, Sosu boasts their cotton swabs’ tips are three times as strong as the leading brand of Q-Tips (whose name escapes me at the moment).

And for those who scoff at proper belly button maintenance, last year the Belly Button Biodiversity Project found over 600 new species of bacteria living in people’s belly-button. Who knows? One of those species of bacteria may eradicate humankind as we know it.

So do the world a favor and clean that thing out, eh?

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The first word in the sentence, Hesogomu, is misspelled -- as can be clearly seen from the Japanese packaging, it says "Hesogoma." (Goma is the word for sesame.)

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They should be figuring out a way to use all the lint from bellybuttons to make clothes for the homeless. I am intrigued by this article JT. Nice one.

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LOL! Nice article. I wonder if Japan will start to have Belly Button Cleaning salons that mirror the ear cleaning salons JT posted awhile back. hahahaha...

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And for those who scoff at proper belly button maintenance, last year the Belly Button Biodiversity Project found over 600 new species of bacteria living in people’s belly-button. Who knows? One of those species of bacteria may eradicate humankind as we know it.

Who knows perhaps one of those bacteria would have saved your life one day, if you hadn't killed it.

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Now if those belly button lint collectors would just take a proper bath everyday perhaps they wouldn't be bothered by a cotton patch in their navel. I soak in a tub full of hot water at my local public bathhouse every night ... and haven't been bothered by belly button garbage in ages ...

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Nice idea for some intimacy, lol

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Haha, I wonder who actually uses KY to clean their belly buttons.

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What is KY?

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Can't you just use a regular cotton swab like a Q-tip with some alcohol? That's what I do and my belly button is immaculate!

@electric2004 - KY is a personal lubricant. Medical professionals use it to lubricate areas on your body to perform procedures like ultrasounds. In the bedroom, people use it for... other purposes.

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Product maker Sosu may have hit the niche jackpot with this grossly underused idea.

Personally, I think it's more of a underused gross idea.

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Up to now most of us have been left to improvisation, cleaning ourselves with whatever was lying around the house like broken glass, pipe cleaners, or the barrel of a handgun.

For me it's either a finger, or in extreme cases a Q-Tip with some anti-bacterial liquid soap on it. I can get 50 Q-tips at the store for $4. The hand soap is bought in bulk and probably works out to a half-cent per application. This is an expensive product for a non-existant market.

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That was a weird review.

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