To many people, it feels like heaven when they come come out of a bath and get a clean and soft towel. The clean and soft towel makes your day and you feel fresh and energetic.
But most of us are not satisfied with the towels because sometime they are smelly and sometimes so hard. These may be due to washing them in hard water.
Also if you do not change the method of keeping your towels, no matter how expensive a towel you buy, you will not have the satisfaction of always maintaining the freshness and softness.
So lets see what hacks or tricks can be used to get the soft and fresh towel you always wanted.
1. For odour and dirt free Towels
Don’t spend your money on expensive chemical based product, these will just ruin your towels. Instead use things which are easily available in your kitchen. Use a cup of diluted white vinegar which loading the towel into the washing machine. And when the first wash is finished repeat the cycle, this time with baking soda.
So why white vinegar ? Vinegar is acetic acid, which helps eliminate bacteria and moisture. And baking soda, helps remove the dirt and neutralize odours.
Keep in mind that this process should not be used on regular basis, fortnightly will just do fine. And you can try this with bed sheets as well.
2. For Fresh Smelling Towels
If you want you towels to be not just dry but smelling fresh too. Remember that just after the bath when your towel is wet, make sure you immediately hang them in open airy and dry area, so that all the moisture is removed. Why do you need to do this? Because wet towel is a perfect breeding ground for bacteria and hence they give bad smell.
3. For Softer and fluffy Towels
Although there is no guarantee that fabric softener will soften your towels but if you use the fabric softener with white vinegar, then this combination works better for softening the towels.
In order to have fluffy towels, use two or three tennis balls in the tumble dryer while you are drying the towel. it may sound crazy but its true and it helps the cotton fabric to fluff up. Try it.
4. Use some essential oils to get rid of mildew smell from the towels.
Even after a wash, there are some occasions when you feel that there is this strange smell that keep coming from your towel for days. To get rid of this, use one or two drops of essential oil in your detergent area of washing machine and voila, the smell is gone. Try this too!
Happy Cleaning!!