Clean Your Bath Towels!

Bath towels are most important of all the towels you use at homes. This is why, it is very important to make sure that your bath towels are clean and hygienic. Many of you may be unaware of the fact that bath towels can be very dirty.

Whenever you use your bath towel for the very first time, it becomes a breeding ground for fungi, bacteria, and salivary, dead skin cells, anal and urinary secretions. There are many germs that linger on your bathroom that may hop into your bath towel, which even are the droplets from your toilet!

It is a possibly that all of these microbes are not very harmful because they come from your own body but yet they are bacteria after all and they are continuously multiplying in number. Hence, as soon as you are over with using your towel for the first time, you need to wash it.

According to health experts and scientists, it is very important for you to ensure cleanliness of your towel. You should be careful if there is an odor coming from your bath towel. Even if the bath towel gives odor on any side, it means that microbes are growing on that side.

Bath towels are the ideal breeding grounds for germs because towel is an ideal place to make a perfect habitat for them. Like a perfect habitat, it has water, oxygen, warm temperatures, food and neutral pH. All these essential qualities of ideal living conditions are supplied by human beings when they use towels because their entire body is covered by it.

When people wick moisture from their bodies into their bath towels, the microbes and other secretions, such as, regular cellular debris that live on the surface of your body get deposited onto the bath towel. These deposits and cellular debris serve the best food for microbes and the moisture neutralizes the pH for them. You can never be sure that whether these microbes are harmful or not so the best solution for this problem is to try your best to get rid of most of them.

Make sure that you do not share bath towels with other people, be it any of your family members or spouse. If your bath towel get microbes from other person’s body than you are surely at risk of getting harmful diseases so wash your towels regularly.

Courtesy: TOWEL EXPORTERS