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jane finan | 15:02 Thu 31st Jan 2008 | Home & Garden
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why are my towels so hard after washing
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do you use conditioner and do you put it in at the same time as the powder and do you tumble your clothes?
Generally towels feel harder if they are dried either outdoors on a line or indoors on a clothes horse. The tumble drier will make them feel softer but I find that after i put them in the tumble drier once, I have to keep on doing them as they will be even harder than before if i dont!

You could avoid this by buying some new ones and tumbling them! By the way you shouldn't use fabric softener on towels as it reduces their absorbancy
Give them a few minutes in the tumble dryer, if you have one. That will fluff them up beautifully.
they are by far the best after being tumble dried so soft
I dry mine on the radiator and they are lovely and soft(cheaper than a tumble drier too!)
I've never dried towels over a radiator and had them turn out soft. Perhaps you use a lot of fabric conditioner? That, and putting them in the tumble dryer's the only way I know of ensuring a soft, dry towel. Mind you, it also depends on quality., and Chazza's right. Tumble dried towels lose their absorbancy unless they're decent ones to begin with.
Fabric softener shouldn't be used on towels. It leaves a plastic coating on the fibres, making the towels less absorbent, as Chazza says. The plastic also makes the fibres slippery, leading to fibre loss in a tumble dryer. Our local Debenhams used to have a large notice displayed in their household section warning against using softener on towels.

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