Buy it.
After buying quite a few packs/bags of cotton from multiple sources, at varying prices, it dawned on me that I was being ripped off. I mean, it's cotton. Sure, it needs to be unbleached, organic cotton, but it's still cotton. Here I was paying 5 bucks or more, for 10 tiny pads of cotton, or paying for the luxury of having a shoestring aglet on the cotton, or having to peel, and roll, and work the cotton. Then I found this stuff. You get a ton of it, it's basically a long, fluffy rope, so no layers to peel, and you just cut what you need and voila. I actually halve what I cut to length, so I get two wicks out of each cut. It performs as well as any other cotton I've ever tried, and it's dirt cheap, so if I feel like running a new wick every day, it would still be much more cost effective than every other organic cotton I've tried.
Rating: 5 stars