White Towels?

SuzySu

I thought the modern liquids/powder/tabs meant that we should all be washing at lower temperatures and they would still be just as effective? Is this not true then?

sallyrsm

do NOT get black towels.. until they've been bedded in they leave you looking like Sasquatch after a shower... covered in black fluff....
I've got mocha towels and a couple of red hand towels to match my scheme with brown/beige glass mosaics and a red blind etc...
Cream towels are very forgiving...
Mind you I used white terry nappies, only washed them together at a hot wash and they are pristine now (DS is 3) I use them as flannels etc...
I think you need to use a hot temp with whites...

Paulie'sGirl

I have white 100% cotton towels.

I wash them at 50oC normally, and at 90oC occassionally. I use bio. They gleam.

I'd unreservedly recommend them, cos they /look/ so crisp and clean

PGxx

whatatwit

I have lots of white towels and I often throw a bit of bleach into the wash.
But, for hand towels, I use small navy blue ones. OH works in the construction industry and if he uses a white towel to dry his hands, it looks filthy.
Also, I use a thick flannel to dry myself off after a shower and so the huge whitefluffy bath sheets are mainly used to wrap around myself as I go to get dressed.

MRSTITTLEMOUSE

I love white towels and bedding,as Paulie'sgirl says they look so clean and crisp.I would'nt have anything else.Bio powders are so good nowadays so they're easy to keep clean.

Claero

I do like white towels because they look smart - I've been tempted to buy a load of white towels as gifts for people and either cross stitch or embroider lovely patterns onto them to make them personalised or different.

That said, white will go with anything if you do ever change your bathroom colour scheme, your towels will always match!

MATH

I like white towels but they do take a little 'maintenance' to keep them looking good.

Firstly, the MATHLETTS are not even allowed to look at them let alone touch (they have their own towels LOL).

Secondly, they are washed on the hottest wash, with detergent and bleach. I have an agitator type machine that beats them to death and I often turn the machine off to leave them to soak for a couple of hours and then crank the wash back up.

Following this routine I have towels that are as white after 15 years as the new set I have just bought. However, no matter how vigorously you launder them they will always collect 'sundry marks' that will not be moved and they will really, really bug you:D

wendywitch

I brought white towels when I was pregnant just for my baby . . . .


She's now 12 and they are still going strong

sandieb

I have white towels too - at least they don't fade! Had them for years.

Just got one dark brown one in the downstairs loo for the gardener!

Curv

Thanks for all the comments and suggestions... the colour scheme is white in my bathroom and a horrid peach in the kids bathroom - but we are going to change that to white at some point, so no problem with co-ordinating there.

I'm a bit of a white laundry fiend so I think part of wanting white towels is to feed my habit, so to speak... sounds like it will do that alright!

Just need to find some lovely 100% cotton ones now. I was planning to buy us all (5 in the house) a set each in the Debenhams 50% sale, but when I added it up for a bath sheet, bath towel and hand towel each it came to £150.00, so I'll be having a look around a while longer, I think.

Thanks again