There is nothing like the feeling of jumping out of a nice shower and drying yourself off with a soft and snuggly towel. Unfortunately, as so often is the case, we can find ourselves hopping out of the shower into a coarse, scratchy and stiff towel. Certain chemicals in laundry detergents, air drying the towels when they are still wet or washing them in hard water can cause the towels to lose their softness.
While cleaning your towels by simply throwing them in the washing machine may be the easiest and fastest way, it won’t help with keeping your towels fluffy and soft. To fix crusty towels, laundry experts at Smol have shared their top tips to make them “soft and fluffy once again”. Many people often think more detergent means a deeper clean but it’s never usually the case.
Using loose powder or bottles of liquid means you’re often overdosing laundry with too much detergent and too much detergent can mean a lot of soapy residue gets left behind in towels. It will make the fabric feel stiff and tough and stop it from absorbing water. On top of this, if you’re using a laundry powder, it doesn’t all dissolve.
It’s going to deposit into the fibres of the towel causing “even more stiffness”. The beauty of capsules is that the dose is pre-measured so you can’t pour in too much. Modern detergents don’t necessarily need the hot wash temperatures.
If you’re using a bio detergent it’s best to wash below 40 degrees so you don’t destroy the enzymes. Too hi.