Making towels soft

black-saturn

Making towels soft makes them less absorbant doesnt it?

squeaky

It does if you use fabric conditioner. If you use vinegar towels are soft and absorbent.

jcr16

i am certainly gonna try all this new advice. i have good quality towels that are very soft ( i have tumble drier) but my husband said he has noticed they don't seem to dry very well. i use loads of fabric conditioner , as i thought the more i used the softer my clothes.

thanks guy's, i will try this next time i do a towel wash.

Gonna_Do_It

Hello

Just wandered if using vinegar works on clothes as well as a replacement for softner or is it just towels?

Do you mix it in with the washing powder?

I will try this, but just want to check, it won't harm the washing machine putting in vinegar will it, it is my mums washing machine and I want to make sure!
Does vinegar work out cheaper than softner?

Also we don't have radiators so we just hang our clothes/towels out.

Thank you

squeaky

Yep, you just put vinegar in the place where you'd put fabric conditioner, and about the same quantity.

No it won't hurt the machine and yes it's cheaper than softener unless you can find good BOGOF deals.

Queenie

Gonna_Do_It wrote:

Hello

Just wandered if using vinegar works on clothes as well as a replacement for softner or is it just towels?

Do you mix it in with the washing powder?

I will try this, but just want to check, it won't harm the washing machine putting in vinegar will it, it is my mums washing machine and I want to make sure!
Does vinegar work out cheaper than softner?

Also we don't have radiators so we just hang our clothes/towels out.

Thank you

Distilled WHITE vinegar is the vinegar to use. Malt vinegar (the brown stuff) can, over time, stain the washer compartment.

Some people put a couple of Tblsps directly into the compartment: I use vinegar for several cleaning jobs so I dilute mine into appropriate bottles and solutions depending on what it's being used for.

(Laundry: I keep a bottle of 50:50 vinegar and water and just add a capful as/when required into the fabric conditioner compartment of the washer. All washing not just towels - but never "delicates" which are hand washed anyway.)

Vinegar does work out a lot cheaper than fabric conditioner; especially if you have an Asian supermarket where you can buy it in a large quantities.

Lightly steam-roning can help soften crusty-towels without the need for a tumble dryer.

Vinegar won't make the clothes smell like you've just walked out of the chippie.

HTH

Austin_Allegro

I find that rubbing damp towels together vigorously before hanging out to air dry results in a fluffier towel - I think this replicates in part the friction in a tumble dryer.

tanith

Hi ,

I found 6 all sizes white towels in my cupboard that when I bought were lovely and soft and fluffy well I don't know why but they went hard and scratchy after a few washes so I just left them at the bottom of the pile and don't use them.. Can they be restored? Has anyone got any method for softening them again as I am loathe to just use them for dusters they cost quite a bit from what I remember. I tried all sorts , lots of fabric conditioner , no fabric conditioner, I always line dry but I even tried drying them with a softening cloth in the tumble dryer to see if that would work , nothing did they stayed scratchy..... HELP !!

purpleimp

I might be wrong but I'm sure someone said that this was due to a conditioner build up in the pile of the fabric and could be resolved with vinegar in the wash, I can't remember the details exactly but I'm sure someone will be along to help soon, I'll be intereseted to find out myself, I have this problem with towels I radiator dry, I'm loath to tumble dry everything and it seems the only way to stop them being cardboard crispy!xxx

borntoshop

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