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.

demented

I am the only one in our household of two that uses flannels.

Given how shiny clean I am after using one, I don't need to wash my towel after every use.

HTH

If we washed all our towels, night wear and bedding after every use, we would be doing at least 20 loads of laundry every week (and having to get it dry somehow, folded and put away) instead of the usual 7 or 8.

All I can say is ... fuck that.

@maid

New clean flannel every morning and every evening, old one hung over edge of bath to dry and then chucked in laundry basket. Brilliantly scrubby things, I do t feel clean if I haven't had a proper scrub with one in the shower.

Those of you commenting about how gross shower puffs and sponges are, you do realise that they can also be put in the washing machine every couple of days. Come out good as new and lovely and clean. Mind you, I'm a fiend for putting things in the washing machine or dishwasher and will give most things a go in there!

But I'm with mintyy

Nothing beats a fresh flannel in scorching hot water to wash my face with, I love, the heat of the water, the smell of the clean flannel, so refreshing :)

I'll have around 40 flannels easily! At least 2 loads of washing a day. I can't think of an alternative. I require the scrub factor

I don't wash towels after every use. Usually every 3 days or so.

demented why would anyone use three flannels a day? And why would anyone wash towels and bedding every day? Unless they are a hotel attempting to bleed the earth's resources dry, of course.

I have to laugh. The advertising industry has done a very good job of making you think that there's bacteria everywhere (there is) which is out to kill you (rarely). Try not to get too fixated on these things and ask yourself instead if anyone ever died from flannel use......

yabu.

only face flannels here. Not shared and washed every day.

But they do covered. That's exactly my point. Wash face/ shower in morning - one flannel. Hands and face after lunch - one flannel. Evening shower/bath/makeup removal - one flannel. It's crazy!
I bought Ds a flannel once. Dd2 used it to clean her riding boots

"They make me feel ill. As do dishcloths. It is the smell. Oh I am dry heaving just thinking about it."

Jesus fucking christ.

I use a hot flannel to cleanse my face at night, it's my favourite ritual actually. Of course I use a fresh flannel everyday, who doesn't?

demented I am the only one that uses them in my house. We all shower, never strip wash, but I use them to wipe off my facial cleanser night and morning. They are only tiny, they go in any hot wash with bedding or towels when I do one. That's why I need lots of flannels, so I have a constant clean supply until I'm ready to do a hot wash. They collectively take up about as much laundry space as two small hand towels a week, that's all.

It's probably said already but flannels are the new MN equivalent of toilet brushes. Next month we'll be frothing about *bathmats/toothbrush holders/chopping boards. (Delete as appropriate). Either way I always end up feeling like a minger on these threads!

shite if your flannels and dishcloths smell then the problem lies with the person who isn't washing them /chucking them frequently enough - not with the cloths themselves!

cleanse

Just out of interest, what's the diffs between cleanse and clean other than marketing? Do men cleanse their face?

I bet Waitrose bog cleaner is called 'WC Cleanser'.

Don't feel like a minger alan, take it with a pinch of salt.

A cleanser is a skincare product that cleans. I say 'cleanse' rather than 'clean' because 'I clean my face' implies that I use water or soap and some claning product or other, or maybe soap, whereas 'cleansing' my face implies that I use an actual facial cleansing skincare product. As opposed to Fairy Liquid. Or Mr Muscle.

shite Well again, that's probably because they've been allowed to stay damp and insufficiently aired for too long which means bacteria has grown, and bacteria smells.

That's why it's best to use a flannel once or twice only, then wash it. As has been said many times already, the issue is not with the flannel itself but with the way people leave them all dirty and wet and festering to be re-used several times until they go slimy and sticking, or crispy and filthy. That is gross, but completely avoidable.

They only smell in precisely the same way your dishcloth/towel/whatever smells if you don't wash it often enough.

If you are familiar with an unpleasant smell, it is because you need to be doing your washing more frequently. The rest of us, who don't experience smell/slime, are already doing that.

You might as well claim it's revolting to wear knickers because you find they smell after a few days.