Towel can be said to be a necessary thing for every family, usually after a while, you will find that the original soft and fluffy towel has become hard, and even sticky with a strange smell! How to deal with the towel at home when it becomes like this? Take a look at the tips for sharing!
How do I clean the towel?
1. High temperature disinfection is the most effective
When cleaning the towel, boil the towel with boiling water for 10 minutes, then clean it with general detergent, and then take it to the ventilated place to dry after washing.
2. Cleaning with salt or alkaline detergent
You can add alkaline detergent to the water, then rub it with salt, and then rinse it with water after washing, which can improve the yellowing and odor of the towel.
3. Remove odor with vinegar and baking soda
If you want to remove the odor of the towel, you can add two tablespoons of white vinegar and a proper amount of hot water into the washing machine. At this time, do not add detergent, softener and other detergents, and directly start the washing machine for cleaning. When the cleaning process is over, add a little washing powder or soda powder to wash again, which can remove most of the odor and sticky.
Special attention should be paid to check whether the washing machine itself has peculiar smell before removing the odor from the towel. If the washing machine has a smell, you can add hot water and 2 cups of bleach to clean the washing machine, otherwise it will be a waste of time!
After the washing machine is closed, the environment inside is wet and sealed to make mold grow. So once the washing machine stops running, it is necessary to take out the towel immediately. In this way, the microorganism attached to the towel fiber will not continue to grow. Before drying the towel, it is better to shake the towel for about 20 times before drying it!
The methods of maintaining towel are as follows:
Steaming disinfection method: Boil the towel with boiling water for about 10 minutes, then wash it with soapy water and dry it.
Microwave disinfection method, the towel is cleaned, folded and placed in the microwave oven, running for 5 minutes can achieve the purpose of disinfection.
Steam disinfection method, the towel into the pressure cooker, heating for about 30 minutes, you can kill most microorganisms.
Disinfectant disinfection method, disinfectant can choose 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 to remove the residual disinfectant. After drying, it can be safely used again.
How to make the towel soft, towel in use for a period of time, due to the free calcium and magnesium ions in the water combined with soap, forming calcium magnesium soap adhered 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 boil for 10 minutes in about 3 jin of water.
How to remove the greasy towel, some people who love to give oil, the towel is often greasy, slippery, washed for many times, the effect is not very good, it is very troublesome. It is suggested to soak the towel in strong brine and then rinse it with clear water to make the towel fresh.
Bad usage
1. Many people in one towel. A family share a towel, because no one's health status and habits are different, it is very easy to cross infection.
2. One towel can be used for many purposes. Some families although everyone has a special towel, but wash face, shampoo, bath, feet, wipe sweat, wipe hands are it.
3. Do not break, do not change, reuse. After the use of the towel will be hard and dirty, become a new source of pollution.
4. Do not pay attention to the hygiene of towel. Many consumers don't wash, cook and dry towels frequently. And hang the wet towel in the airless toilet for a long time, but bacteria and viruses live in the wet towel for a long time, and grow rapidly into geometric numbers.
5. Ignore the harm of fake and inferior products. Many low-cost towels are made from waste, old, fake raw materials and inferior dyestuffs and chemicals. The label of these fake and shoddy towel products is 100% cotton, actually mixed with a considerable proportion of chemical fiber. The price of this kind of low-quality ordinary chemical fiber is lower than that of cotton yarn, but it is airtight, has poor water absorption and moisture discharge, and is easy to fluff. If you use it to wash your face, it will stimulate your skin; if you use it to wipe household items, it will not be cleaned, and there will be water stains on the surface of the objects. What's more, some manufacturers also use some banned dyes and chemicals, which contain phenylamine carcinogens.
Precautions for using towel:
1. After making the towel, dry the towel to avoid mildew, especially the bath towel!
2. If there are windows in the bathroom, it's better to open and open the curtains in the morning to let the sunlight in and ventilate, so as to avoid the situation that the towel is still moldy when it is dry. In addition, the towel should not be dried in the shade as far as possible, and the towel should be exposed to the sun to have sterilization effect and taste.
How often do you change a towel?
There are many people will use the towel broken, yellow to change, in fact, this is not right! Towel is a kind of fiber fabric. If it is used for a long time, the bacteria in the fiber gap will be difficult to remove! General cleaning, sun exposure, high temperature cooking and other methods can only control the number of bacteria in a short period of time, and can not remove bacteria permanently. So if you use the old towel for a long time, it will let the bacteria have the opportunity to invade.
It is recommended that two to three towels should be prepared at the same time. It is better to change a new towel in about three months. Moreover, it is better to scald the towel with hot water once a week to sterilize and ensure the towel is clean.
Shopping skills
There are many kinds of towels, and there is a big gap in quality. Several aspects should be paid attention to when choosing towel correctly.
1. Go to the regular store to buy clearly marked towels. Shopping malls, supermarkets or the source of the exclusive stores are generally regular manufacturers. Qualified towel products should have standard marks, clearly indicating the manufacturer, place of origin, telephone number, trademark, executive standard, washing method, etc.
2. Consumers can also check whether there is a "star towel product logo" on the product and whether there is Oeko 100 eco textile certification mark. The products certified by eco textiles are completely free of toxic and pathogenic substances, and are completely green and environmentally friendly. Star grade towel product quality is completely excellent.
3. See: towel sewing is fine, neat, Terry height is flat, color is pure and bright, no uneven phenomenon is good.
4. Touch: a good cotton towel feels fluffy, soft and without greasy feeling. It is soft and elastic to hold in the fist, and there is no lint falling off when slapping.
5. Smell: a good towel has no smell.
6. Test: a measure of hygroscopicity; the method is to hang the towel vertically and throw it on the towel after touching with water by hand, and the water drops do not roll off, indicating that the water absorption is good; if there are water drops rolling off, it indicates that the softener in the towel is excessive or not refined enough. Second, test color fastness; the method is to first pour the hot water about 80 ℃ into the basin, and then put the towel up and down to wash, the basin water does not change color is better. If there is obvious fading, it shows that the printing and dyeing quality is poor, which is harmful to human health.
7. Burning: take out a piece of loop yarn on the edge of towel and wrap it into a loop, then ignite it with fire. It burns quickly, and the ash is black gray. It is light and no residue. It is pure cotton or cellulose regenerated fiber. If the combustion is not clean and the ash is hard, the yarn is blended with chemical synthetic fiber.
