Do Brits not use face cloths?

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I'm from North America and I grew up washing my face with a face wash and a wash cloth.

Wet face, suds up the cloth and give it a gentle scrub until all my makeup is off and rinse with wet cloth. Then I use a toner on a cotton pad to remove any leftover traces, but there's usually not any unless I've missed a spot around my hairline.

I've noticed through travelling to hotels here in the U.K. and much of Europe that there are no face cloths (flannels?) in the rooms to wash my face with so I have to wet the bottom corner of the towel and use as a face cloth.

How does everyone wash their face here? Do you mainly use makeup wipes? I've tried a few but they never seem to work very well

• I'm always left with lots of makeup on my toner soaked cotton pad. It also seems a lot of waste that ends up in the landfill.

How does everyone ensure their face is clean from makeup & sunscreen without a gentle scrub and water? Was I using the wipes wrong?

Ah Mark E. Smith ❤️

Not since 1985. Not sure why - they worked quite well. Might invest in a couple

What does bum drying after a peri bottle mean?

Going entirely against the grain but I only use face cloths / flannels when I'm in a hotel. We don't have them at home, I use cleansing balm and fingers and/or micellar water and reusable bamboo 'cotton' pads for removing make up.

Most European hotels we stay in seem to have them though. Both I stayed in recently in Switzerland definitely did.

Big face cloth fan here.

IMO more Brits use them in Indian restaurants than at home!

I use face cloths but when I go on holiday I have to take my own.

Wash your hands and then use your hands to wash your face. I was always told that was better. But we do also use face cloths and you need to bring them to hotels.

They are provided at most decent hotels (4* & up) and pads to remove make up are too.

I rub ultra bland on my face then wash off with hot wet face cloth.

A comment from a pp reminded me of something from years ago. A divorced woman I worked with who was probably about 45 at the time used to meet up midweek with men visiting the city we worked in for work. After work one afternoon I was in the toilet before o left for the day. She came in, wet her face cloth in the sink then went into one of the cubicles saying "I'm going to wash my bits girls". Needless to say her "flannel" became the stuff of office folklore

Same as a PP, my DSis can’t bear the word flannel. We have to say facecloth.

OP I use flannels for my face but my husband is French and he can't get his head round it! To him flannels are hand towels, to dry your hands on after washing them once you've been to the loo. Like in a really posho hotel!

Same here. They are called face clothes in Ireland though, never flannels.

What @AuntieMarys said

Just returned from a 5* in London and there were several 😂

@DietrichandDiMaggio I wash with water using a peri bottle after the toilet (to prevent UTIs as very prone to them) so use a flannel for any excess water
I have a colour coding situation!

Lots of people do

But you have to stay in more expensive hotels to get them laid on, or dedicate a corner of your towel 😬

It used to be part of our holiday preparations to buy DD one of those pressed disks that turn into a flannel when you add water. No hotel flannels wherever we’ve been.
I prefer wash mitts because IME they don’t dribble as much. I’ve even been known to make my own from old towels, the more threadbare the better.

Posh hotels do supply them, you loon.

I don’t find them to be hygienic, unless you hot wash them after every use. I use a cream cleanser which I remove with damp cotton pads followed by toner, much more hygienic.

I do use a flannel in the bath to give my body a good scrub, then it goes into the wash.

Who isn't neurodiverse these days?!

No, on account that someone might have used it for their arse (lowers the tone of the thread immeasurably). I am serious though, it has been known. I daren't risk it now.

A peri bottle is a portable bidet in the form of a squeezable bottle with a directable jet. Apparently they are popular with mothers who have recently given birth.

Flannels are rough and not that good for your skin I'd imagine.

I use Take The Day Off Cleansing Balm. Dissolves your make up and grime and then just rinse off. Toner on a ball for the rest of the make up traces.

The one time I used a hotel face flannel it set my skin on fire- clearly had been washed or bleached in something pretty hardcore and not rinsed properly.

😂 this thread is brilliant.

They don't have to be posh hotels though.

Premier Inn have them. Hamptons have them. I genuinely can't remember not finding them in any hotel I've stayed in.

And they change them every day. Like I do at home after taking my makeup off. Just chuck that days flannel into the wash.

I've swapped to microfibre cloths though recently as they're bigger and softer.