I believe it's frozen stuff resembling ice cream. The spoon that comes with it is used for 'dosing' things into it.
An Alternative from Boots at £1.40
An update on Quickes again, we went into Boots yesterday to look to see if there are any other alternative products. The "Quickies" sold in the particular Boots were at £1.99, but they sell their own brand "Conditioning Nail Polish Remover Pads" (15 Pads) at £1.40.
I bought some of the Boots pads (or should I say, I slipped them into my wife's basket
). Just tried them on my chart, and the pads are about half the area of the Quickies, and they seem 'over wet' so they do wipe away the permanent marks on the chart brilliantly, but then you need something else to mop up the inky solution.
Not Flammable
A correction to my original post the Quickies (and the Boots equivalant by the way) are both "Acetone Free" and contain
Butyrolactone. Butyrolactone is a common industrial solvent which is stable, low odour (low volatility) and is not classed flammable (by the US classification, "Flammability 1") unless heated. It is obviously wise to take as much precaution with these products as the ladies who use it (and some gents I'm sure) by making sure you have adequate ventilation for health reasons.
As I'm still a boy at heart, I lit one of these, and I was very unimpressed. Granted, the vapour was probably above the HEL (Higher Explosive Limit).