Towel is a daily necessity, after a period of time will become hard, some will become greasy and sticky and emit a strange smell. Today, life tips net editorial to share some tips to solve the towel of these “small trouble”!
1, the towel yellow, odor causes
(1) when we use the towel to wipe the sweat and oil skin and not regularly cleaned, the towel is easy to hoard fat and dirt, time is easy to feel sticky, dry will be yellow or odor.
(2) If your bathroom environment is not ventilated, and every time you use a towel and not completely wrung out, this time the moisture will be hoarded at the bottom of the towel, the lower edge will produce moldy phenomenon, the towel will naturally produce a bad smell or even yellow phenomenon.
2, why the towel will become hard
(1) towel use time is too long, the hair will fall off, when the towel hair fall off only the bone pole left, the towel will become hard.
(2)The towel is not completely clean, the fiber still has the dirt left in the skin for a long time .
(3)The towel is tangled in the terry after washing and is directly exposed to the sun without shaking it.
(4) free calcium and magnesium ions in the water and soap combined, adhering to the towel, is also a major cause of the towel hardening.
3, wash face towel special
It is recommended to wash the face with a towel is best to come out independently, do not use to wipe sweat or wipe the body, only after washing the face to wipe the face to use. Because the use of towels to wipe the body, the body of secretions, bacteria, dirt, grease easily attached to the towel.
Whether it is a towel to wipe the face or body, it is best to wash it once a week, so that the bacteria on the towel will not harm the skin.
How to clean the towel?
1, high temperature sterilization is most effective
When cleaning towels, towels can be boiled in boiling water for 10 minutes, and then cleaned with detergent, after washing, then get ventilated to dry. If you feel a little trouble with boiling water, you can also clean the towel, get the microwave oven microwave for 5 minutes, also can achieve the effect of high temperature sterilization.
2, add salt or alkaline detergent cleaning
Alkaline detergent can be added to the water or scrubbing with salt, after washing and then rinse with water, you can improve the towel yellow or odor of the situation.
3, with vinegar and baking soda to remove odor
If you want to get rid of the odor of towels, you can add two spoons of white vinegar and the right amount of hot water in the washing machine, do not add detergent, softener and other detergents, and directly start the washing machine cleaning. At the end of the wash cycle, add a little laundry soap or baking soda and wash again to remove most of the odor and stickiness.
But pay special attention to check the washing machine itself before removing the odor, 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 the damp seal is excellent conditions for the growth of mold, so once the washing machine stops running, we must immediately take out the towel, so that the microorganisms attached to the towel fibers will not continue to grow, in the sun before the towel, it is best to vigorously fling the towel 20 and then exposed to the sun!
Precautions for using towels
1, after using the towel, you have to dry the towel, so as to avoid towel mold, especially bath towels.
2, if there is a window in the bathroom, it is best to open and open the curtains during the day to ventilate, let the sunshine in, so as to avoid the towel drying still moldy situation. Moreover, towels should not be dried in the shade, but let the sunshine in order to have the effect of sterilization, and will not have the smell.
How often should I change a towel?
Many people will generally use the towel to the broken yellow towel replacement; in fact, it is not right.
Towel is a fiber fabric, use a long time, deep into the fiber crevices of the bacteria is difficult to remove, cleaning, drying, high temperature steaming and other ways can only control the number of bacteria in a short period of time, and can not permanently remove bacteria. If you use old towels for a long time, it will give bacteria a chance to invade.
So it is recommended to prepare two to three towels at the same time to replace the use of towels, the best three months or so to change a new towel, and the best weekly hot water hot towel once, to ensure that the towel is clean and no mold class.
