Do you wash towels separately in their own load?

[JacknDiane]

I've always bunged them in with the rest of the washing, am I doing it wrong?

In an ideal world i would wash them separately… im my 3kids a full time job world, they go in with the whites always at 60degrees

Yes because I don’t use fabric conditioner on towels and I wash them at 60 degrees.

Yes,I always wash towels separately.They make up a full load when you’ve got a couple of bath sheets,a bath towel and hand towels, Also I wash my towels at a higher temperature than the rest of my washing.

Most clothes have a 40 wash. I like towels, tea towels, undies and DS work clothes to have 60.

So the towels do go in with other stuff at 60.

Yes as I do them at 60°.

This. It's only a matter of time until some smart entrepreneur starts selling home autoclaves

Mine do usually go in a separate white wash, since towels are all white. Often with white bath mats.

But then unlike some MNers, I don’t wash towels after every 1 or 2 uses.

😂😂😂

I’m the same, if it all
comes out smelling fresh and looking clean I’m happy ! No thought given to bacteria. They’re everywhere.

No I don’t

Separate on a hot wash, easily makes up a full load for us though with just towels

I wash them at 60 with other cloths, pillow cases, socks and underwear.
40 degrees is not hot enough to kill bacteria.

They go in with whatever I'm washing. Every now and again I'll do all of them at once on a 60⁰ wash, line dried.

Although chance would be a fine thing in this weather.

Mostly yes, but only because if I scoop them all up they're a load on their own.

DD's extra towel from swimming just goes in a general tumble load the next day though.

Me too.

Aaahh I love the smell of pseudomonas in the morning.😂😂

I do them separate otherwise they leave all little bits on my clothes. Also I do them hotter than I would clothes.

Nah! I chuck it all in together. I separate things on colour not the texture of fabric.

I only ever wash towels with bath mats and face cloths. I was dish towels on their own too. And cloths. And bedding. I’m a bit funny that way.

See, I'm puzzled by this. 60° doesn't kill all bacteria and bearing in mind anything on a towel has come from the user's own clean skin, why does it matter?

I wash them on their own or with wedding because I wash both on 60 whereas most our clothes I usually wash at 30.

I think it's more than towels can get kind of musty from being damp repeatedly.

I find that if the towels don’t dry completely between uses, then they can get smelly, which means bacteria. A hot wash kills it off in the way 30 or 40 doesn’t, and the Dettol cleanser I add seems to stop it coming back in the next use round.

Some yes some no. I’ve got some that kind of deposit fibres onto other clothes (noticeably after wash and tumble) so they get washed alone. I’ve got others that are fine with clothes so they go with clothes. Not all towels are the same. All of mine are
from Ikea and I still have to treat them differently.

Yep. Higher temperature, no fabric conditioner, faster spin, then a dry cycle (we have a washer/dryer)