Cloth wipes versus paper towels

moanymoany

I read a post where someone - I think Penny Penguin - said she used cloths rather than paper towels.

What I wondered is - how are they kept hygenic. I thought about a hot wash but that costs. Would nappy steriliser or bleach work?
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I'd love to know what anyone else does

Penelope_Penguin

moanymoany wrote: »

I read a post where someone - I think Penny Penguin - said she used cloths rather than paper towels.

What I wondered is - how are they kept hygenic. I thought about a hot wash but that costs. Would nappy steriliser or bleach work?
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I'd love to know what anyone else does

I did mention that I keep a lidded icecream tub on the windowsill, with a bleach solution in it. I stick the cloths in that. Once it's full, I rinse them off and wash them in a regular wash.

I can't abide paper towels - they use so much energy to produce. Our parents didn;t use them, and we lived to tell the tale

I use a combination of cut up old tea towels, microfibres and knitted cotton dishcloths.

Penny. x

Magentasue

I have a loads of cheap dishcloths and use them for most things others use kitchen roll for. I go through at least three a day, sometimes more.

When they're used, I rinse and wring and hang them over the cleaning bucket. Next day they're dry and go in the washing bin. Once a week, I do a boil wash for whites including tea towels and dishcloths. Nobody's keeled over yet!

I do it this way because I was told it's good for your washing machine to do a hot wash once a week so this way, with school shirts etc., I get a full load.

lauren_1

I have a stack of old terries that now moonlight as tea towels and a multi pack of flannels as cloths/washing up cloths.

They get wetpailed in a water/bicarb and tea tree solution then washed with everything else on 30/40

thriftlady_2

I just wash mine with the rest of my laundry, been doing it for years. It's never occured to me that it might not be hygenic enough -is it not? We're all still fit and healthy;)

I do keep a roll of kitchen paper but it is used only for absorbing fat on fried food which we don't have very often. What else is good for this?

Magentasue

I use kitchen roll for anything greasy, straining coffee grounds and tea leaves for composting and ... can't think of anything else offhand.

moanymoany

Thanks everyone. I have some old towels that I'm going to cut up and use.

miss_corerupted

thriftlady wrote: »

I just wash mine with the rest of my laundry, been doing it for years. It's never occured to me that it might not be hygenic enough -is it not? We're all still fit and healthy;)

I do keep a roll of kitchen paper but it is used only for absorbing fat on fried food which we don't have very often. What else is good for this?

i do this as well. i thought it was all right. feel a little dirty now

AussieLass

Penelope_Penguin wrote: »

I use a combination of cut up old tea towels, microfibres and knitted cotton dishcloths instead of toilet paper.

Penny. x

How very MSE. :money:

floyd

I am one of the naughty kitchen roll users, my Nanna always had knitted cotton dishcloths as did my Mum until very recently but I have never found a way to get them sparkling. Even with bleach they still look grubby and as an honorary member of the OCD club I can't bear the thought of wiping my work surfaces with a stained cloth

Does anyone know where I can get really good cotton string cloths and how to keep them pristine?

juliettet

miss_corerupted wrote: »

i do this as well. i thought it was all right. feel a little dirty now

Me too, only exception is loo cloth which I soak in a little bleach water before washing.