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Wash Towels with Vinegar<\/h3>\r\nIt's easy to freshen up your towels. Start with a hot water cycle (for whites) or warm cycle (colors) and add about half the detergent you'd use for clothes. To clean musty towels or strip old fabric softener away, add 1\/2 to 1 cup of white vinegar<\/a> to your rinse cycle. Don't worry\u2014they won't come out smelling like vinegar.\r\n\r\nUsing vinegar every other wash or so can also help prevent the musty smell, but you can treat extra-stinky towels by using baking soda too. Super-scratchy towels might benefit from this occasional treatment: one hot cycle with only<\/em> vinegar (no detergent) followed by one hot cycle with only<\/em> baking soda.\r\n

Wash Towels Separately<\/h3>\r\n\"Freshly\r\n

Since bath towels generally stay pretty clean (you're<\/em> clean when you use them, right?), they don't require as much soap as clothes do. Plus, excess soap can build up on your towels and dull their softness. Liquid fabric softener is a definite no-no, as it coats towels' fibers and can prevent them from absorbing moisture.<\/p>\r\n

A clean machine goes a long way for clean towels, too. Follow this guide to clean your washer<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

Stop Using Dryer Sheets<\/h3>\r\nDryer sheets can impart the same absorption-blocking buildup that liquid fabric softener can. You can use them every now and then, but they're not crucial for keeping towels soft. What is? Giving your wet towels a shake before drying, then pulling them out as soon as they're dry. Shaking helps fluff out the fibers for maximum absorption and more efficient drying. Overdrying (along with using too much soap) is one of the cardinal sins of scratchiness. If towels are still a little damp when the dryer finishes, err on the side of caution and hang them up to finish.\r\n\r\nKeep the dryer sheets for non-laundry uses<\/a>, though!\r\n

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