The weather is getting hotter and hotter, and people have more and more opportunities to wash their faces with towels and wipe sweat. They often emit a strange smell shortly after using them. They feel wet and sticky to the touch, and they feel quite uncomfortable!
Is there any trick to make the towel dry, fresh and not sticky?
Especially for people who are prone to oil on their faces, sometimes they just use the towels to wipe their faces and have not used them to wipe other parts, but they still get wet and sticky and smelly not long after they are used.
How to use towels correctly? Is there any trick to make the towel dry, fresh and not sticky? Now let’s take a look at the precautions and cleaning tips when using towels!
1. Use the towel for washing your face separately. It is recommended that the towel for washing your face should not be used to wipe sweat, wipe your body, etc., and only use it after washing your face. Because when using a towel to wipe the body, the secretions, bacteria, dirt, and oil on the body are easily attached to the towel. If it is not disinfected and cleaned regularly, it will become sticky or dry and hard. Therefore, it is best to clean the towel once a week so that the bacteria on the towel will not harm the skin.
2. High temperature disinfection is most effective when cleaning towels, you can boil the towel in boiling water for 10 minutes, then wash it with detergent, and then take it to a ventilated place to dry. If you feel it’s a bit troublesome to boil in boiling water, you can also take the microwave oven to microwave for 5 minutes after washing the towel, which can also achieve the effect of high-temperature disinfection.
3. Use vinegar and soda powder to remove the flavor
In addition, vinegar or soda powder can also be used to remove the flavor. Clean according to the general laundry procedure. Add two spoons of white vinegar to the washing machine, or add appropriate amount of hot water. At this time, do not add laundry essence, softener or anything else, and start the washing machine directly.
After the cleaning process is over, add a little more laundry soap or soda powder and wash it again to remove most of the odor and stickiness. Before removing the smell, check the washing machine before removing the smell. It is best to check whether the washing machine itself has an odor. If available, add hot water and 2 cups of bleach and run the washing machine (do not put any clothes).
After the washing machine is turned on, the environment inside is damp and sealed, which is an excellent condition for mold growth. Therefore, once the washing machine stops running, you must take out the towel immediately so that the microorganisms attached to the towel fibers will not continue to grow.
Dry immediately after use. In terms of use, dry the towel after using it to prevent the towel from getting moldy, especially the bath towel, or wash it immediately after using it.
If there are windows in the bathroom, it is best to open and open the curtains during the day to ventilate and let the sun shine in, so as to avoid the situation where the towel is dry and moldy. Furthermore, 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.
4. It depends on the situation when hardening and sticking
If the towel has become sticky or hardening, you can add alkaline detergent to the water or rub it with salt, and then wash it with clean water after washing, which can be improved.
And salt also has the effect of removing odor. If it still cannot remove odor, it means that the service life of the towel is almost done. It is recommended to change a new towel! Towels are really easy to smell strange, and it turns out that these are the reasons.
In addition to using these methods to deodorize, it is cleaner to use a towel that specializes in washing your face!
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