To consider flannels fucking revolting

[BelfryWitch]

Just use your hands! What's with dragging a manky rag all over your body and face about?

Or if you absolutely must have one, then it needs washing after every use. A sopping square of material draped over the bathtub to dry is just grim.

I don't understand them but have found the elderly very fond of the flannel, despite having walk in showers ... Don't get it.

I use a fresh one every time I use one and work top to bottom iykwim.

You can't wash your face properly with just hands, you need some grip!

They are not fucking revolting.

Now a sponge, that's fucking grim.

Then don't use one?

Also those net exfoliating things....

I use hands for face, but a flannel for 'bits' and a net for everywhere else. The flannel gets regularly washed.
This is another MN thing I'm not going to understand...

I love flannels.

I have some. Washed every time.
They get folded and go over youngest eyes when hair
Is being washed..
Do know someone who has one. Everyone uses it. There's 4 people.

Flannel for face only.

murray how does having a shower (walk in or otherwise) mean you don't need to wash yourself? Water from a shower won't get everywhere, and neither will it soap you!

some flannels are grim

but yeah, you can't scrub ink off a small child with your hands

How do you wash areas other than your face if you are washing at the sink? I don't have a shower so wash in the morning, bath when the baby lets me at night.

I use them on my face - clean one in the morning, clean one at night - with a cleansing balm.

Not so sure what's grim about that?

Mum used to buy sponges for dsis and I to use in the bath. I have just had a flash-back to how they used to go slimy and manky in the middle - ewwww!!

I use a flannel if I have a stand-up wash at the sink, but I rinse it out afterwards in really hot water, and leave it to dry on the edge of the sink - and it seems to stay fresh and pleasant.

The elderly like flannels because until recently it wasn't normal to have a bath every day. However you can do a pretty good wash at the sink with a flannel. Arguably it's more environmentally friendly. You are unlikely to catch anything nasty from a regularly washed well wrung out flannel.

Flannels are ace! We wash ours after every use. You just cannot get your face clean with just your hands and sponges and those net exfoliating puffy things are grim....sitting on the side, soaking up old crap. Bleugh.

Nothing beats a good cleanse with a (fresh) flannel at night. Hands will not do it.

YABU

I have a shower that goes into taps.
Never done the sink wash.
Before that I had a bowl and stood in the bath and poured water over me.

They are totally rank. Especially when people keep them wet in a wash bag

Well what do you use?

They are banned in this house. Germy and horrible!

Flannels are actually quite gross if you don't wash them each time.

I hate the word flannel too!