Should I Wash My Clothes Separate From Towels?
When doing laundry, it is important to group like items together. This is true not only for colors, but also laundry items of different materials. If you have clothing and towels in need of washing, wash the two types of items separately to avoid potential issues arising. Does this Spark an idea?
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Lint
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The most significant risk to washing towels and clothing together is that the towels will create "nubs" of lint on your clothing. This problem will occur regardless of whether the towels are new or you have washed them multiple times. These nubs can damage delicate clothing and can take a considerable time to remove.
Colors
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If the towels are new or have only been washed a few times, their colors may stain clothing if you wash everything together. Dark towels, especially, contain heavy dyes that can come off in the washing machine and change the appearance of lighter-colored clothing.
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Lint Removal
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If you've mistakenly mixed clothing and towels in a load of laundry, remove the lint off the clothing with a lint remover. Pick a lint remover that has metal teeth. If you have nubs of lint of a piece of delicate clothing, use a sticky-paper lint remover or pick the lint off by hand to avoid damaging it with the metal-toothed lint remover.
Approaches
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Just as you should separate light and dark clothing into different loads of laundry, separate clothing from towels while doing laundry. If you have both dark and light towels, run two separate loads of towels to ensure the dark colors don't leach into the light towels.
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References
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