Why are my towels changing colour?

[Banderchang]

Naturally it is DH's fault - some product he uses is turning our purple towels green. But I can't work out what it is! At my parents's house, he turned their dark brown towel orange, so it must be something that has a bleaching quality.

At the moment I'm just living with patchy towels, but we're redoing the bathroom soon and want to buy new ones. But I need to work out what ingredient/product is making them change colour before we ruin a new set. Any ideas?

BTW, I know it's him because as soon as one towel started going discernably green I kept giving him that one. It is going more green while mine remains purple. We use the same shampoo/conditioner so it must be a facewash or shaving gel ingredient.

Hmmm. I've heard of gussets, but never towels Does he secretly dye his hair?

it must be something that bleaches them could be a facewash especailly some of the acne ones.
The other much more Hmm thought is is it that he is using it to wipe wee away as that would cause this.

could it be a sweat thing?

No hair dye and hopefully no wee (ewww!). Don't think it could be sweat as he's always straight out of the shower when he uses the towel. Maybe a facewash then. I'll compare the ingredients of his and mine - or perhaps put some neat facewash on the towel as a tester.

Any more thoughts - keep em coming!

I would guess benzyl peroxide. Used in spot creams and cleansers.
Avoid coloured towels.

Thanks Nanny - I'll look out for that on the ingredients list of products. I think you're right: white towels might be the way forward.

When my girls were going through their teens I found their spot creams did this to my coloured towels so I changed to white ones. Then they discovered fake tan

Oh yes spot cream! That will be it. House full of teenagers, every spot attack product under the sun and all towels going blotchy. And I guess that would account for the colour change on one end of the duvet covers and pillow cases. Won't bother to replace the towels and sheets until they've left home!!