A1 Poppers

Wow.. I can't believe it's been 12 months since I updated and added a new post to this blog. To be honest I forgot all about it, this lead me to forget my password and it just snowballed like that to now.

Anyway, I plan to post weekly to this blog informing you all about new products and information including tips reviews etc on what's around in the world at the moment. I'm starting today with A1 Poppers.

A1 Poppers

A1 poppers is a new website launched by a new company in early 2011. The online based retail company specialises in a wide range of lifestyle products like room aromas / odorisers, often referred to as poppers. Poppers have been around for many years, in the early days they contains Amyl, this ingredient was the best possible and everyone loved the buzz you got from a huge sniff of Amyl nitrite. It wasn't long though before the do gooders of the country and the MHRA had the law changed so Amyl could not be used. The active ingredient was changed and it became Isobutyl nitrite. Not as strong as amyl nitrite but the effects were still good and it still gave a good head rush. The MHRA campaigned for many years to get Isobutyl banned in the UK claiming it to be an active medical ingredient. There efforts through the courts were denied and the UK seen the continued sale of poppers with Isobutyl Nitrite.

Law changes
But all this changed the year the UK joined the EU. Overnight the MHRA pushed through a European Law that banned the sale of Isobutyl Nitrite in poppers.

European law changed the sale of Isobutyl and it was 2-0 to the MHRA. It had taken many years of pushing for this but eventually they managed to get Isobutyl and Amyl Nitrite banned. This wasn't the only thing introduced by the sprouts in Brussels. The law changes meant we were forced to change not only the active ingredients but the actually bottles were changed to include child proof caps (this I actually agree with), the next thing the EU did to cost all manufactures lots of money was to change the labelling of these products. They had to have 2 warning notices, one warning of flammable content and the other warning of toxic and dangerous contents. We also seen the introduction of the raised braile sign "danger" added to the bottles.

So where from here?
The active ingredient in poppers now is a Isopropyl Nitrite. This ingredient although gives a head rush is just not as strong as the original Amyle or isobutyl. The Isopropyl version can be a little harsh if used regulary. The aromas from Isoropyl is not as tolerant as other ingredients. Sales for poppers have been steadily declining now for the last 3 years since the European law changes came into effect but for poppers lover they are still a good way of getting that 2-=3- second head rush.