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Boon Flo | 
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| Brand: Boon
Category: Baby Product
List Price: $15.99
Buy New: $11.99
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Rating:  76 reviews
Sales Rank: 94
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.7 x 5.1 x 3.4
MPN: 601
Model: 601
UPC: 854622001026
EAN: 0854622001026
ASIN: B000G7WU50
Release Date: June 2, 2006
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| Features:
| • | Diverts the flow of water, creating a gentle waterfall, while providing a protective faucet cover | | • | Also functions as a bubble bath dispenser | | • | Attaches easily to the bathtub faucet with a spring-activated grip |
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Product Description
Flo provides a simple solution to bath-time challenges. This unique product diverts the flow of water, creating a gentle waterfall, while providing a protective faucet cover to guard against injury. Flo also functions as a bubble bath dispenser.Simply attach this handy device to the bath tub faucet with the included spring-activated grip -- requires no assembly or special installation. When the water is turned on, it's diverted into a stream that extends up to 12" in front of the faucet, creating a gentle waterfall that makes rinsing your hair easy. The soft material on the front edge of Flo helps protect against injuries caused by bumping or scraping against the faucet. Parents can fill the bubble bath reservoir and let children dispense bubbles into the water by pressing the button on the front. Measures 7 1/4" x 4" x 3".
Amazon.com Hands-On Review
For most kids, taking a bath is all fun and games…until it's time for shampooing. Granted, leaning back into the unknown, getting suds in the eyes, allowing Mom or Dad to pour cups full of water over your head, or banging your noggin on the faucet—none of this would be on a grownup's list of favorite things to do, either. So kids and parents will both be tremendously relieved to discover Flo, a water deflector and faucet cover that turns a regular bathtub faucet into a gentle, safe waterfall. Children won't mind leaning back into the soft spray of water, especially since the rubbery material of the deflector will make any inadvertent bumps pain-free. However, the chance of bumps is much less because Flo redirects the downward stream of water out and away from the faucet. The entire shampooing process will take place many inches away from the source of most injuries. No need for bathers to contort their bodies anymore to get directly under the flow. Best of all (for image-conscious parents), Flo is handsomely designed, sleek and stylish—no yellow duckies here! When it's time for a grownup shower, the shower diverter remains accessible through the upper portion of the faucet cover, so you won't need to remove it after every bath. Let It Flo
Installation of the Flo couldn't be easier. Just squeeze the top and bottom sections together and fit over bathtub faucet. Make sure the front of the faucet extends over the inside flap, and that the shower diverter is accessible through the top opening. Bubbles, With Little Toil or Trouble
A one-touch bubble bath dispenser releases liquid bubble soap into the flow of water, ensuring a tub full of fluffy, foamy fun. Pour liquid bubble bath into the reservoir at the top end of the Flo, then press the green button on the lower end where the water comes out. Pros
Kids of all ages will love playing in the soothing spray from the deflector, and will be far less likely to resist a shampoo rinse when it's under a "waterfall." Flo's simple design is attractive to grownups and children alike. Cons
Although the cover is designed to fit easily over any standard bathtub faucets, there are definitely some faucets that it will fit better—or worse—than others. The Flo is easy to attach…but it can be fairly easy to remove, too, which is not always ideal when it's a curious one-year-old doing the detaching. The bubble dispenser does not always work optimally, but presumably that's not what most parents will be looking for in a protective cover/water deflector, anyway. And with some engineering (a.k.a. wiggling the cover around), the bubble dispenser issues can often be resolved. --Emilie Coulter
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| Customer Reviews: Read 71 more reviews...
 Works for some people . . . But not me. November 28, 2008
J. R. Thorup (Salt Lake City, UT USA)
This product is a great idea, but they need to be more clear in the selling info that it only fits on certain faucets. The hole at the top that fits over the shower knob thing only fits over knobs that are at the front of the faucet. Unlike mine, which is further back. I can get the boon flo cover over the faucet, but it really doesn't clamp down and it falls off if you bump it. Hopefully I'll be able to move into a house, someday, that has the right kind of faucet.
 Does not work November 2, 2008
Jennifer Fera (Upstate NY)
This product is pretty disappointing. It does not clamp tightly to the faucet spout and slips off to the end causing water to flow out the back. My spout is a typical design so the cover should be able fit properly. Many people mentioned the need for a shower pop-up knob, which we do have. When someone takes a shower, the cover slips forward holding the knob up. The knob would normally pop back down when the shower is turned off. Instead I get an icy cold shower when I turn my daughter's bath water on! The other problem is that the resevoir to hold bubble bath leaks badly and when I filled it in the evening at bath time it had completely drained by morning. This happened the very first time we used it, not after soap gunk had built up in the dispenser. The only feature I did like was that it was effective at diffusing the water flow which made it quieter and less scary to my baby.
Design flaw, explained October 27, 2008
Jonathan S (West Windsor, NJ USA)
Like others, I like Boon products and this one looked great. However, it does not work on my bath's faucet/spout -- it falls off easily and often, from my baby touching it, from the water flow, sometimes all by itself when noone's near it. The problem seems to be two-fold:
1) Our bath spout does not have the pull-knob on it to switch between bath/shower mode. Ours is built into the wall. This knob may hold the Boon Flo on better (it is pictured in the product photos).
2) The hinge-spring doesn't seem tight enough -- it seems to loosen after a couple of weeks.
I wish Boon had specified that it doesn't work for certain types of bath faucets. Leaves me wary of the company's other products (even though I've bought some other ones which work fine). I may try silicon tape, as someone here suggested, but I shouldn't have to . . .
 fits, but beware! September 28, 2008
A. Langston (New York, NY)
Ok, so it fits over our weird lift up shower valve and it protects the kids from the sharp edge of the faucet, but it grows mold an is pretty gross. I soaked it in bleach ad it smells better but it didn't really get the stains off. Also, the soap drips out if you leave it in. Wastes the bubble bath and makes for a slippery surprise in the morning when you step into the bath tub. I haven't seen any other product that fits over our faucet, so I'm keeping it for now, but i don't love it.
Doesn't fit all faucets September 2, 2008
C. Dionisio (Orlando, FL)
It is a great concept, but didn't fit my system. I just sent it back. But I would recommend it to anyone with an older, smaller tub faucet.
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