How to Get Rid of Excessive Lint on Royal Velvet Towels
Plush bath towels may have originated in Turkey as Turkish towels, but they are still very much a luxury every well-appointed bathroom shouldn't be without. According to HGTV, "The ultra-soft, super-fluffy bath towels found in high-end spas and hotels are typically Egyptian cotton or increasingly, the American-grown version, called pima cotton, which offers a similarly luxurious look and feel." With high-loft towel fabric often comes an excessive amount of lint build up because of the way the very thick fabric is cut during the manufacturing process. A clothes dryer will help your towels shed that extra lint. Does this Spark an idea?
Things You'll Need
- Towel
- Wash machine
- Clothes detergent
- Clothes dryer
- Fabric softener sheet
Instructions
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Wash the towel in cold water on the smallest load setting of your washing machine. Follow the manufacturer's recommended amount of laundry detergent. Always wash the new towels by themselves and according to color.
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Dry the towel in the clothes dryer on a low-heat setting, using a fabric softener sheet. Fabric softeners reduce dryer lint due to their anti-static properties. According to Laundry Today, "Most good fabric softeners contain anti-static ingredients. There are a number of good softeners available, but check the packaging claims to see if they advertise anti-static ingredients."
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Clean the lint filter on the dryer. Remove all of the lint from the filter and discard after every dry load. Lint build-up in the appliance is a fire hazard.
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Repeat washing the towels in cold water. Nina Campbell recommends alternating "between air and heat drying" in repeat cycles. You want to get rid of the lint, but you don't want to degrade the towel fibers. If repeated cycles are needed, try the "fluff" cycle, which is cool air.
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Tips & Warnings
With proper care, the towel will eventually shed the excess lint, but it may take two to three wash cycles to reach "normal" lint production levels where your towels aren't shedding and the lint filter isn't fuzzy and full. Typically, the thicker the toweling fabric, the more lint the towel produces.
