It cleans and exfoliates

I advise anyone visiting China to bring with them several packs of their favorite toilet paper. Chinese toilet paper feels like a mixture of recycled news paper and those plastic rings that hold a six pack together. This stuff is so rough I could refinish furniture with it. To make things worse, a new roll of toilet paper is less than half an inch thick. If used sparingly you might get two uses out of it. This is a pic of a new roll of toilet paper. It is difficult to gage in the picture but this roll is about 1/4 the thickness of its American counterpart.