As you may well have seen in the ads, Lynx (website “temporarily unavailable”) has a new style lockable can. You can see it in the picture above.
The idea is that you can twist the cap and rises slightly locking the spray mechanism. It’s to stop the cans going off in your bag – something that can easily happen if the lid falls off, adding a pleasing smell to all your bag’s other contents.
But can I just say that this new design is absolutely terrible. Maybe I’ve just got a duff can, but there are two major defects in the cans as far as I can see. First, the lockable section has an annoying habit of rising back up as you’re using it sending the spray into the cap and not onto your body. Second, my can at least has now developed a fault and the spray’s mostly going into the cap even with it fully open, and then trickles down the side of the can and onto my hands. Again, not onto my body.
As I say, my can might just be faulty – I bought it in multibuy offer at Boots, so we’ll see how the next can works – but it strikes me as poorly thought through. Let’s face it, new designs sell deodorant.
