To not know how to use a flannel?

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I went to a Temple Spa party my friend was having a while ago. The person who was demonstrating all the products handed us all a hot flannel to wipe our faces with, and it was heavenly!

I've never used one before and I have bought a couple now but I haven't started using them because I'm not sure how to?

I know that sounds really silly but do you use them to take off your makeup? Or do you wash your face and then wipe off your soap/cleanser with them?

Also, then what do you do with them - where do you store them? We don't have a towel rail in the bathroom, just a radiator at the moment as we've not long since moved into a new house. Do you wash them after every use or is it more of a weekly thing? How many do I need?

I feel very silly that I've gotten to 30 years old without knowing this!

I’ve been using a face cloth and not water with a cleansing balm or oil for a few years now and it’s so much better and more thorough than using make up wipes or cotton wool with some cream on it.

I do still use cotton wool pads and eye make up remover for my mascara though.

I have one face cloth per day. I use a fresh one in the morning when my face is pretty clean anyway and the same one again at night, then chuck in the wash. Lots of people will tell you that flannels are unhygienic but so long as you don’t use the same one for more than a day or two and remake sure to rinse it well and squeeze it out, there is nothing unhygienic about it.

Love flannels .

I have some Hammam ones from TKMaxx that are really good.

Recently got some from Emma Hardie. They are towelling on one side and muslin on the other. Fantastic to use.
Eve Lom and Liz Earle sell muslin square type cloths with their cleansing balms but you can buy muslins online.
Ikea used to sell a pack of multi coloured trimmed white face clothes in the children department. They were a great rough texture which is what you want for exfoliation.

I keep mine in a huge glass jar in the bathroom. Clean one everyday wash them all at the end of the week with the rest of the whites.

I don't shower every day - sensitive skin - so use a flannel and a basin of water to clean on the day I don't. Didn't occur to me that there are so many different ways to use a cloth!

Lie in a scented bath with a hot flannel over your face, bliss.

I cut up all the muslin cloths we had when they were no longer needed. Some of them have patterns.

I use baby oil / paraffin to cleanse off makeup, and then wipe off with a muslin, and then wash with ceraveSA to clear the rest off. I use a fresh muslin piece to dry.

I use another one in the shower for a body wash, and use a regular looped towel to dry after using moisturiser when still wet.

I put the muslins in with the hot wash laundry.

OP watch some you tube facial videos. The hot flannel is different from washing your face. It is used after the cleanser to help open up your pores so the treatments sink deeper into your skin. It is not used as a cleaning tool.

I use to run temple spa parties.

I was surprised by how many people loved the hot flannels they held on their faces for 5 seconds before wiping and wanted to know how they could replicate it at home.

My Answer was, run the flannel under the hot water tap in your bathroom, wring it out then then use.

When you are rep you run them under hot water tap and wring them out, then a quick zap in the microwave to get them really hot before packing them in an insulated bag. By the time I handed them out they were still hot but not too hot.

My DDs are in to these new microfibre pads for removing make up. They can be horribly stained with foundation/mascara but it always comes out in a normal wash. They both said how much better their skin is for not using chemically laden wipes.

They just soak them in hot water, and use as hot as they can bear it, then do the final wash in really cold water to close their pores.

We have colour-coded flannels in our house, a different colour for each person. That way they can be left out to dry without getting mixed up. I use just my hands for my face and the flannel for body, but other people in the household use flannel for face as well.

This thread is an eye opener. I seriously did not know that flannels were used by anyone under 70! I havent used one for years, just remember when I was a kid they used to be hard and stinky!! I used a polish scrunchie thing in the bath or shower and just use face wipes in the mornings to cleanse.

I have loads of muslin cloths that come with my Liz Earle cleanse and polish wash off cleanser. But we also use flannels. I tend to use it until I remember to wash it!! Or it smells!! Which ever is first....

A lady near me had just started selling crochet make up remover pads which look fab - but obviously as I have hundreds of muslins I don't need them. But they look fab. She's called Gem Bees on social media.

I have never used a flannel either.

Am a plain soap and water person - lather soap in hands, wash face, rinse with water in hands, dry with towel.

I have a pile of muslin cloths to wash my face. I think their structure is better for removing tiny bits of dirt /makeup and dead skins.
Cleanse with chosen cleanser applied with finger tips and then wipe face clean with damp cloth.
I use one per day then wash and store in a folded pile in bathroom cupboard.

Same here!

Used to use a flannel for having a morning rub-down wash at the sink in the pre-central heating, pre-shower installation days of my childhood.

We have hundreds of flannels but only really use them to wipe toothpaste off faces.

Faces get washed with water only for the boys and I use a gel cleanser then soap, but splash with water only. Flannels aggravate my rosacea.

We use a puff in the shower.

Why do you all call wash cloths flannels? Are they made of flannel? Here they're typically made of terrycloth.

I think its a really old fashioned name for them that you learn from your Nan.
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Omg I must be old. I call them face cloths and buy them in bundles (in white) and wash daily. Use for double cleansing and I think a face cloth is a necessity - I can’t believe people think only old farts use them.

I'm really interested to know, those of you who don't use flannels, what do you use to wash in the bath or shower??

I sort of double cleanse.
damp towel with warm water. add some moisturiser to one corner and wipe off eye make up.
lather soap or face wash and apply to skin and wipe that off with the damp flannel. follow up with more warm water to rinse all product off properly.
use the flannel once and then it goes in the wash.

I use them daily. I use an oil-to-milk cleanser that I massage in, then buff off with a warm flannel.

I use a fresh one each wash.

Mother40 - just rub soap in stinky places with hands and then rinse off!

@steff13 They were originally made of flannel. Nowadays they're not, but the name stands. In some parts of the UK they're called facecloths.

I'm really interested to know, those of you who don't use flannels, what do you use to wash in the bath or shower??

Soap, water and hands