What do the care symbols on your towels mean?

Ever wondered what those care symbols on your towels mean? Those labels are placed by the manufacture to guide you in the care of your towels, below is a helpful guide to decipher those symbols and understand the meaning behind them.

Care symbol	Description
	Warm wash - 40ºC Max
	Gentle warm wash - 40ºC Max
	Cold wash - 30ºC Max
	Gentle cold wash - 30ºC  Max
	Hand wash
	Do not dry clean
	Line dry
	Do not tumble dry
	Warm tumble dry medium heat
	Cool iron
	Warm iron
	Hot iron
	Do not iron
	Do not bleach
	Dry clean any solvent except trichloroethylene.

How to stop towels pilling and linting

Bought some new towels and finding they are shedding fluff and pilling? This is natural for a new towel especially egyptian cotton towels.

1. Wash your towels at least three times before use and place in the dryer. Best to do a towel only wash to stop lint appearing on other laundry.

2.  Use a lint ball in dryer  - they are described as decreasing the amount of time you spend drying your clothes and the number of wrinkles in your clothes once they are dried. It  works to remove extra lint from your clothing as it dries. This is  moneysaver and a timesaver because you do not need spend as much time to dry your clothes.

3. Try washing them with bicarb soda in the detergent section and vinegar in the rinse section.

4. Clean out your lint trap on your dryer.

Top 4 tips to make towels fluffy and soft

Purchased some fluffy, soft towels and want to keep them that way or have you washed your towels and found afterward they were stiff and scratchy? Some handy tips below to making your towels fluffy and soft and breathing life into old towels once again:

1. Put towels in the dryer instead of line drying. If you want to reduce electricity bills and reduce your carbon foot print, line dry until the towel is almost dry then placed in dryer.

2. Use Lux soap flakes on towels

3. Wash towels with wool wash

4.  Add half a cup of bi carb to the wash, then a cup of vinegar to the rinse cycle. Vinegar softens hard water,  reduces lint and increases the absorbency of the towel.

Note: Do not use fabric softener on towels, it will reduce the absorbency of the towel as it coats the towel.
Note 2: If your towel contains a polyester band or border drying in clothes dryer will distort the

Don't have a Clothes Dryer?

• Try and dry towels in shade.
• Flick your towels (similar to a bed sheet) Before placing them on the clothes line and before getting them off again.