Precautions for using towels Recommended maintenance methods for daily maintenance of towels

Towels can be said to be a must-have thing for every family. Usually after using them for a while, you will find that the originally soft and fluffy towel becomes hard, and even sticky and has a strange smell! What should I do when the towel at home becomes like this? Let’s take a look at the tips shared by the editor! How to clean

towels?

1. High temperature disinfection is most effective when cleaning towels, you can boil the towel in boiling water for 10 minutes, then wash it with a general detergent, and then take it to a ventilated place to dry.

2. Add salt or alkaline detergent to clean

You can add alkaline detergent to water and rub it with salt. After washing, rinse it with clean water, which can improve the problem of yellowing and odor of towels.

3. Use vinegar and soda powder to remove the odor

If you want to remove the odor of the towel, you can add two tablespoons of white vinegar and an appropriate amount of hot water to the washing machine. At this time, do not add detergents such as laundry essence, softener, etc., and start washing the washing machine directly. After the cleaning process is over, add a little washing powder or soda powder and wash it again to remove most of the odor and stickiness.

It is important to note that before helping the towel remove the odor, remember to check whether the washing machine itself has any odor. If the washing machine has a smell, add hot water and 2 cups of bleach to clean the washing machine, otherwise it will be in vain!

After the washing machine is turned off, the humidity and sealing inside are the best conditions for mold to grow. Therefore, once the washing machine stops running, you must immediately take out the towel so that the microorganisms attached to the towel fibers will not continue to grow. Before drying the towel, it is best to throw the towel around 20 seconds before taking it to dry!

The methods for maintaining towels are:

steaming and disinfection method. First boil the towel with boiling water for about 10 minutes, then wash it with soapy water, and then dry it and you can use it.

Microwave disinfection method: Clean the towel, fold it, put it in the microwave, and run it for 5 minutes to achieve the purpose of disinfection.

steam disinfection method: put a towel in a pressure cooker and keep it heat for about 30 minutes to kill most microorganisms.

Disinfectant disinfection method, the disinfectant can be selected for 200 times diluted cleaning disinfectant or 0.1% chlorhexidine. Soak the towel in the above solution for more than 15 minutes, then take out the towel and rinse it with clean water, remove the remaining disinfectant, and then you can use it with confidence again after drying.

How to make a towel soft? After the towel is used for a period of time, the free calcium and magnesium ions in the water combine with the soap, resulting in calcium and magnesium soap adheres to the surface of the towel, making the towel hard. At this time, you can add 30 grams of soda ash or appropriate softener to about 3 jin of water and cook for 10 minutes.

How to remove greasy from towels. Some people who like to make oil often have greasy and slippery towels. After washing them many times, the effect is not very good, which is very troublesome. It is recommended to soak it in concentrated salt water and wash it with clean water to make the towel refresh.

Unfortable usage methods

1. Multiple people in one scarf. A family uses a towel together. Because everyone has different health conditions and living habits, it is very easy to have cross infection.

2. One towel is used for multiple purposes. Although everyone in some families has a special towel, it is all about washing your face, washing your hair, bathing, washing your feet, wiping your sweat, and wiping your hands.

3. Do not break or replace, reuse. Towels that have passed their service life will become hard and dirty, becoming a new source of pollution.

4. Do not pay attention to the hygiene of towels. Many consumers do not wash, cook, or dry towels frequently. Wet towels are hung in unventilated bathrooms for a long time, but we do not know that bacteria and viruses live in wet towels for a long time and reproduce quickly in geometric numbers.

5. Ignore the harm of counterfeit and shoddy products. Many low-priced towels are produced from waste, old, fake raw materials and inferior dyeing materials. The labels of these counterfeit towel products are marked with 100% cotton, which is actually doped with a considerable proportion of chemical fibers. This type of low-quality ordinary chemical fiber is lower than that of cotton yarn, but it is not breathable, has poor water absorption and moisture discharging, and is prone to irritation of hair. Using it to wash your face will irritate your skin; it will also not be wiped clean, and there will be water stains on the surface of the object. What's more serious is that some manufacturers also use some banned dyeing materials, which contain aphrolid carcinogens.

Precautions for using towels:

1. After using the towel, dry the towel to prevent the towel from getting moldy, especially the bath towel!

2. If the bathroom has windows, it is best to open and open the curtains in the morning so that the sun can be in and ventilated, so as to avoid the towel being dried but still moldy. Next, try not to dry the towels in the shade and let the sun be exposed to the sun to have a sterilization effect and will not have any smell.

How long does it take to change a towel?

Many people will use towels until they are broken or yellow before changing them. In fact, this is wrong! Towels are fiber fabrics. After using them for a long time, bacteria that penetrate deep into the gaps in the fibers will be difficult to remove! General cleaning, sunbathing, high-temperature steaming and other methods can only control the number of bacteria in a short period of time and cannot permanently remove bacteria. So if you use old towels for a long time, it will give bacteria a chance to invade.

It is recommended that 2 to 3 towels can be used alternately. It is best to change a new towel in about three months. It is best to scald the towel once every week with hot water to sterilize and ensure that the towel is clean.

Purchasing Tips

There are many varieties of towels, and the quality gap is also very large. Several aspects should be paid attention to when purchasing towels correctly.

1. Go to a regular store to buy towels with clear logos. The supply of shopping malls, supermarkets or specialty stores is generally a regular manufacturer. Qualified towel products should have standardized markings that clearly indicate the manufacturer, place of origin, telephone number, trademark, execution standards, washing methods, etc.

2. When purchasing towels, consumers can also check whether there are "star towel product logo" on the product and whether there are OEKO100 ecological textile certification logos. Products that have passed the ecological textile certification are completely free of toxic and pathogenic substances and are completely green and environmentally friendly. The quality of star-rated towel products is completely excellent.

3. Look: It is better to see if the towel is sewn fine and neat, the height of the ring is flat, the color is pure and bright, and there is no uneven depth.

4. Touch: A good pure cotton towel feels fluffy, soft but not smooth. It is soft and elastic when clenched in the fist, and it is not peeled off when patting.

5. Smell: The good towel has no odor.

6. Test: Test the moisture absorption; the method is to hang the towel, dip it with your hands and then throw it on the towel. The water droplets do not roll off, indicating good water absorption; if water droplets roll off, it indicates that the softener in the towel is too much or insufficient refining. Second, measure the color fastness; the method is to pour hot water at about 80℃ into the basin first, then put it in a towel and lift it up and down to wash it. The water in the basin has not changed color. If there is obvious loss of color, it indicates that the printing and dyeing quality is poor, which is hindering human health.

7. Burning: Pull out a ring on the edge of the towel and wrap it in a circle, ignite it with fire, burn quickly, the ash is black ash, light and slag-free, pure cotton or cellulose recycled fibers. If there are hard blocks in burning impurities, it means that the yarn is mixed with chemical fibers.