I have white towels that I wash after each use and bleach - use them at times that total bacteria avoidance is needed (in another week, they'll be in full-time use). Also have fluffy towels that I spread out to dry but still wash every couple of days. It's the old rubbing off dead skin thing ... can't let that go on too long. Yecch.

Every use. That's four per day, one per family member. We have cheap, smallish bath towels and when they're gone we bust into the beach towels. I do laundry on Mondays and it isn't generally a problem.

28 bath towels on a wash. Plus clothes, I presume. Crikey!


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Bath towels, for me, get washed after two or three uses. Big, fluffeh ones. Hang it over the shower door rail, never smells. Fresh (rough) wash cloth every time.

As for the dead skin...aren't you washing/scrubbing that off in the shower?

Yabbut ... unless you really go to town with a pretty good brush or loofah every time, you're not scrubbing it all off ... probably wanders into OCD territory if you DO go nuts every time. You'd end up with irritation, infection, all that don't-need-it stuff. We're supposed to have a little transitional epidermis; trouble is, it flakes off as it finishes transitioning.

So, the soft, fluffy towel is gonna get packed with what you missed after "going to town with a pretty good brush or loofah"?

:eyebrow:

:p:

Something like that. There are always parts you miss ... ;)

Years ago I had a housemate who put it like this, "I don't want anyone using my towels. I figure, you dry your face with your towel, and I'll dry my ass with mine."

There's some stark relief for ya.

We use ordinary old bath towels and mine goes in the wash once a week. I can't speak for anyone else in the house. They're responsible for putting their own in the wash basket. If it's not in there, it doesn't get washed. I try to keep washing to a minimum because we live on tank water, but water is precious anyway, and I'll be buggered if I'm going to do two or three extra loads of washing per week just to have nice fluffy towels every day.