An assembly comprising a hand holdable dispensing container formed from resilient sheet material and contained therein a flexible tearable elongate strip of water soluble thin sheet material, the dispensing container comprising a two-sided biconvex closed body and a communicating opening at one end of the body, the opening being formed by re-entrant folds of the projections of the sides of the body, the sides each having a convex radius of curvature greater than half the width of the body, the container body having a width of from 2 to 3 times the width of the strip and the container body having a length of from 0. 05 to 0. 5 times the length of the strip and the strip being arranged such that a portion of it may be pulled by hand through the communicating opening and then torn off for use, any remainder of the strip simultaneously being retained within the container by means of the re-entrant folds