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@pachamama: FYI - our gray towels have not held up well. They got discolored quickly. Kind of like bleach stains, but I don't usually use bleach or strong face stuff, so I don't know why. Total bummer because I love gray!
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We have a problem with towels looking like they've been bleached. I don't use bleach so I don't know what is happening. This went on in our old house (top loader) and this house (front loader).
So, we have towels from when we first moved into the old house (11 years now) and a few new ones for the guest bath, but those were mostly to match the color scheme in the new house.
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@SweetCaroline: Just like you, Target registry, they're 6 years old now
My mother bought some at JCP that are literally the softest ever. They're on my list of things to replace.
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@mediagirl: Does anyone in the house use acne cleanser or treatment stuff? I had a roommate that ruined my towels with hers...
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@codeitall: interesting. We both use oxy spot treatment on our faces but don't rub it off on the towels.
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@bhbee: @pachamama: I found instructions for stripping the towels online that call for two cycles, one with white vinegar and the second with baking soda. I did that the first time, but since then I've been lazy and just adding the vinegar to a single cycle with detergent. (I've tried both in the fabric softener dispenser and straight in the wash, and both have worked fine for me.) This is for an old-school top loader, though.
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I just did a HUGE towel purge when our local homeless shelter said they needed towels. I went outside with all of my old white towels and compared them to one brand new white towel. In natural light, it was readily apparent which ones had lived their best lives at our house.. I think I donated 80% of them. I mean, they were perfectly fine to use, but once I had them out I realize how tired they were. Our second bath is in our kitchen so you can see it all the time.
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I think our current towels are 3 years old? They're white and I don't think they're too grungy looking. We use bleach occasionally.
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We keep ours for a long time. We have the Costco ones in charcoal. I dry outside when I can.
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I used OxyClean on the white and added vinegar to the detergent compartment of my HE loader (I didn't really know what to do???). Whites are way whiter than they were with bleach which was pretty crazy! I'm gonna donate our ugly, stiff beige ones. But I bought 4 gray towels in the meantime. Now you all can sleep at night!!
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@mediagirl: I had the bleach/ splotchy problem with a lot of purple towels and sheets. I pretty much don’t buy ones in that color now (also I have a husband who doesn’t love purple as much as I do anyway...). I assume it was from something i used on my face (it was bad on the pillow cases) but I kind of need to be able to touch my face with my sheets and towels.
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@codeitall: I know it's been like 2 weeks but after doing laundry I thought about this. All of my towels and my husband's towels are fine. It's just guest towels with spots. And then I realized, my mom uses a daily acne cleanser! All white guest towels from here on out!
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@mediagirl: ha- I purposely do NOT give my MIL white towels because she gets makeup on them, so I give her the tan ones.
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