A budget supermarket has found itself and one of its products at the heart of a social media debate.
This summer Home Bargains have released a product that claims to ease the effects of hayfever but it got some shoppers outraged.
The wipes that cost 89p 'Hayfever Relief Wipes" are branded as a treatment item to ease the itchy eyes and noses brought on by a pollen allergy.
However, it's the environmentally conscious consumers fumed about the product because it promotes single-use plastic and isn't clear on whether the product is able to be re-cycled, with many fearing it will add to the rubbish on landfills.
Last week the wipes went viral on social media garnering 5,000 comments and while not all of them were bad, many of them added to the heavy criticism.
In a Facebook post, Home Bargains wrote: "As the weather begins to get warmer and we start to sit outside again, make sure you're protected from hay-fever, with Nuage's Hay-fever Relief Wipes. Helps to relieve itchy eyes and nose's for just 89p."
"No, no, no ! What is wrong with these companies? No consideration for the environment at all! Use a clean , wet flannel!" slammed one critic.
Another wrote: "Great idea, but it's just a shame they are plastic wipes inside a plastic bag we need to be reducing plastic."
"Hay-fever wipes??!! They'll invent wipes for everything these days. More plastic waste to fill our land and oceans," wrote a third critic.
A fourth said: "Anything that’s a ‘wipe' should be banned. So bad for the environment."
Yet another critic blasted: "More waste going to landfill. Or the sewers if people are flushing them away."
One more critic wrote: "They have wipes for everything now. So unnecessary. I really don't think people realise that they contain so much plastic. Makes me mad!"
The wipes do not state whether they are suitable for recycling.
Manchester Evening News has contacted Home Bargains for comment.
Other customers who bought the wipes shared some positive reviews with one saying this: "Surprised me how well these actually worked defo worth having if you suffer from hay fever".
Another person said: "These are the best things I've brought I suffer with really bad hayfever highly recommended x".
One Mum said: "I buy these for my 11yr old who gets bad hayfever, he says they really help".
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