I'm very surprised that many posters who use the Northshore brand brief find it high quality. I used their newish house brand Flex Supreme pull ons for a couple of months a while back, and I can't imagine it is of significantly lesser quality than their own house brand brief.
They claim the pull on is more absorbent than Abena, Tranquility and basically everything else. Maybe if you sit down, don't move for several hours and just leak slowly. But most people don't do that all day and all night. I am not even fully incon, I do use the toilet, but have some degree of minor leaking several times daily as well as unpredictable floods. I was in the correct size, flooding out the left leg hole even for a moderate leak, whether sitting, standing or lying down. (female, so nothing to adjust direction.) As Porkchop said, it tears easily from normal pulling on, pulling off, holes after several hours from just wearing it, even if still dry, rough, uncomfortable texture, SAP particles on my body. The other high end premiums don't do that at all, although they all have their strengths and weaknesses. I wanted very much to like Northshore as I had bought other brands and products from them in the past, I wanted something less expensive, less bulky and U.S. made, as a backup brand to the excellent, unparalleled Abena that is nevertheless imported, expensive and bulky. But it was very disappointing and shoddy, performing little better than much less expensive low and midrange brands that do not have to be ordered online by the case from a medical supplier. If I could get away with that kind of product, I would, but I am a professional who works in front of hundreds of members of the public every day and need something that if I leak, even catastrophically, no one will know.
As a supplier, I like Northshore as one of the options. I also like XP. I will buy other products from them again when their price is best. But I will not buy the Northshore Flex Supreme again unless it is redesigned and considerably better quality.
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