BC Original and Bad Taste: What Users Say

• Dis...
• Taken for 1 to 6 months
• January 8, 2019

For Headache "I am also like other users for years of BC Powder. I'm not sure who decided to change the packaging, but it is horrible! Not only that, but there is a weird taste to it. Take it from someone who has been able to take BC Powders with water only for years, now I can barely stomach the taste. Also, the medicine gets stuck, so now it takes almost three times to get all the powder out! Change it back! This is horrible. I'm currently looking for the old packaging."

• Yay...
• Taken for 10 years or more
• December 13, 2018

For Headache "I've used BC powder for 20 years, but now I'm looking for a new product due to the horrible taste that's now in the new packaging. I even contacted BC powder to ask them where I could buy the old packaging and if they were going to have the old one so we could have our choice of which one we wanted, and I got no response. The new packaging is really terrible, and I really hate to change, but can't stomach this new stuff."

• Cri...
• September 15, 2019

For Headache "I don't know why the packaging changed. I, along with my family, use and have used BC's for generations. Now, due to packaging, we are switching. You cannot get the medicine out, about half comes out, so you buy twice as many as before. If you're lucky enough to get the medicine out, it takes 2 tries, so you get the bad taste twice, not once, and it's so aggravating. We're looking for alternative meds. Why fix something that's not broke?"

• cus...
• Taken for 10 years or more
• May 6, 2019

"New packaging is horrid. Obviously, this stupid idea did not spend any time in R&D. It does not come out of the packages to get 75% of it out. If you're lucky, you have to shake it into your mouth like a salt shaker, getting the bitter taste all over the inside of the mouth instead of one spot on the tip of your tongue. I have moved on to Excedrin (aspirin caffeine tablets). Fix your defective packaging, please, B.C."

• Bec...
• November 24, 2021

For Pain "Ok, first of all, aside from the packaging, the taste has changed, yes, it's always been bitter, but now it tastes like a cheap brand of aspirin, less effective, and instead of getting rid of my headaches, it now gives me one. I suggest going back to its original formula, this new one doesn't work. And I'd prefer you to bring back the smaller boxes, I don't like having to buy 50 packs at once."