Is it possible to wash bed linen with towels, what will happen?

The answer to the question whether bed linen can be washed with towels is ambiguous: it depends on the type of material, the quality of the products and the nature of the contamination.

When it's a bad idea

You should always follow the recommendations on the laundry label, be it silk sheets or waffle towels. Proper care will allow the textile to serve for a long time without crumbling, becoming pilled or losing color.

Very often the recommendations for bedding and towels are different:

1. Cotton and linen bedding is quite tolerant of washing powders; terry towels are recommended for gels, which are easier to rinse.
2. Terry towels require additional rinsing, but for bed textiles this is an extra burden.
3. Towels can be easily spun at 1000 rpm, but soft bedding (satin, poplin, especially silk or wool) need a minimum of rpm.
4. Modern towels are often of such poor quality that regular washing quickly renders them unusable - a delicate program with soaking is better for them. You can wash 2-4 towels this way, but the duvet cover or sheet is too bulky; you can only soak them in the bathtub, not in the drum. If we are talking about silk or wool, then prolonged soaking will damage their structure.
5. In order for pillowcases and sheets to be soft and smell nice, conditioner is added when washing, which is contraindicated for towels because it reduces their hygroscopicity; the additive is especially harmful for terry lint.
6. In any case, towels get more dirty: they wipe the skin with them several times a day, they hang in a damp bathroom or kitchen. That's why they need either soaking or intensive washing, and this is at least 2 hours per cycle. Bedding is usually cleaner, if only because they use it once a day. Accordingly, 40 degrees and 40-60 minutes of washing are enough for him.

But even when the recommendations are the same, there are a number of cases when you should not wash linen and towels together:

1. Kitchen towels. As a rule, these are waffle hand wipes. Less commonly, terry ones with the same functionality. But terry napkins for tables have not yet been destroyed by progress. All these textiles get dirty very quickly with grease (from your hands, the bottom of frying pans, which urgently need to be wiped off and returned to the stove, from the steam from cooking) and are colonized by all kinds of bacteria. They need to be changed daily and washed at 60 degrees for at least an hour and a half. It is not recommended to start with anything else, if only because not every item will withstand such aggressive care regimes.
2. Pile. Modern terry towels are in most cases a pathetic parody of what this product should be. Modern textiles quickly lose color and fluff. Washing duvet covers and pillowcases with them means raking out heaps of rubbish from the corners, and while ironing, patiently remove lint with a clothes roller, otherwise you will have to sleep like on sand.
3. Mass + volume. Bed linen itself takes up a lot of space in the washing machine, and towels, especially terry ones, become 5 times heavier when wet. This, firstly, will interfere with high-quality washing, and secondly, it will increase the load on the drum and increase wear on the equipment.
4. Color. Cheap towels often fade and will not fail to change the shade of bed textiles.

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To restore the softness of a terry towel, soak it in a saline solution for several hours. Take 10 tbsp. l. spices per 10 liters of water. After this, the towel should be rinsed thoroughly and dried.

Are prohibitions a reason to bypass them?

Yes, there are cases when towels do not harm the bedding at all and vice versa. When?

Firstly, if we are talking about thick bedding and high-quality towels (such as Soviet or “Ivanovo textiles”). With a clear conscience, run them at 60 degrees with a double rinse and don’t worry. The only thing is don’t fill the drum to capacity, leave at least 1/4 free.

When you wash the bedding and towels of a baby, a sick person (especially a bedridden person) or a very elderly person. Here disinfection will not be superfluous. Wash his clothes separately, using long cycles and the hottest water the sewing on the textile will allow.

If you change thin hand towels daily (for the kitchen this is a must) or every other day, so that they do not have time to get significantly dirty, then by the middle of the week, when it is time to change the pillowcases, and in the summer, the sheets, you will have an optimal bookmark for the usual cycle. But remember that thin towels (usually cheap ones) lose lint generously - you will have to pick them out from the corners of the pillowcases.

So, the main problems are inconsistencies in the detergent (towels do not need conditioner, but bed conditioner is desirable), in the rinse mode (towels need double, but bed linens need a regular conditioner) and in the wash intensity. Based on this, the magazine purity-en.htgetrid.com recommends that its readers wash towels separately from other things.There is no need to worry that the load will be too small: modern machines do not have a minimum load; it is permissible to wash at least one towel.

To avoid wasting electricity, water and detergent (which affects both the budget and the environment), keep a laundry basket and throw in towels when there are enough of them (in a family of three this is usually not a problem, but in larger family and even more so).

When washing, consider the type of fabric, degree of soiling and manufacturer's recommendations for care. If everything matches and the volume of the drum allows, it is quite acceptable to run towels with bed linen. Still, the general recommendation is to wash them separately.