Do you wash your bathroom towels with your kitchen towels?

[Bluerose27]

Just that really.
I like to keep on top of washing, especially when the sun is shining. So today I had half a load of bathroom towels and half a load of kitchen towels so I threw them all in on a high temperature.

I feel like it's two different types of germs mixing though.

But I feel a bit silly as I type this. If I'm crazy to worry about this please let me know gently!!

I can't imagine putting this much thought into washing!

If its dark it goes in with other darks, if its light it goes in with other lights, if its brightly coloured it...etc. Towels, clothes, dishcloths all go in together and all manage to come out clean.

I do tend to wash pet blankets and towels separately from everything else, simply to avoid the pet hairs sticking to everything else.

I do also use the anti-bac additive for socks and underwear (and DS's t-shirts, as although he showers or takes a bath at least twice a day and uses more anti-perspirant than most young men, the underarms of his t-shirts always smell quite sour). I do find it helps.

Towels - all in together, on 60 or 95 (I'm a very lax bath towel washer so when I eventually get round to it I do like to boil the festering things.)
Bedding - 95 degrees because the dog sleeps on it with me (which I know will horrify the anti-germ brigade.)
Whites and colours - separated and washed at 40 degrees, sometimes at 30.

"Washing bathroom towels at 30 is disgusting, there must be all sorts of faecal bacteria and skin fungus all over them"

um, why? my hand towel is used after I wash my hands
my bath towels are used after a shower.

confused.

slim I cant work that out either! Surely if you are using a towel then you have just washed yourself? Unless some people use them instead of toilet paper!

this has quite literally never crossed my mind

Rinse blood stained clothing in cold water immediately. Do not leave to dry.

To get the residual stain out wash in biological detergent. Most good machines will rinse well. A one hour wash does this just fine.

My washing machine has a bath and bedding setting so towels go in there together. However, I don't use tea towels as I use a dishwasher or for the odd thing washed by hand I leave them to air dry.
Bath mats go in with towels, bedding separately but with five of us bedding and towels are more than one load.

Think of the environment! All those half empty washing machines makes me shudder much more than the thought of my tea towel touching my bath towel.

I hate to break it to those who seperate stuff based on location, but germs and bacteria don't limit themselves based on room of the house.

thank you Pyong!

the "wash towels daily" brigade confuse the heck out of me and I am teased by, er, everyone, because I scrub up like a surgeon after getting off bus, tube, or handling supermarket baskets etc.

and I clean my computer, desk, keyboard, phone, door handles (at work) etc etc and have actually been seen virtually chasing a fluey CEO out the door with a spray can of disinfectant in my hand.

I chuck everything in on a quick wash with bio washing liquid. Towels are clean of poo crumbs etc because a towel is used to dry a clean recently washed arse. I dont even seperate colours unless it's new navy/black jeans

I do towels with bedding, and clothes separately, but only because they are in different baskets. Teatowels get shoved in on top of each load. We don't use paper towels in the kitchen so I have lots of cloths that need washing (2 small children!).

I also use washable toilet wipes and sanitary towels - I can imagine the horror in some MN's minds. I usually wash these separately, but not always. The shame.

Elendon "Rinse blood stained clothing in cold water immediately."

I think I've been watching too many crime dramas because I know this one.....

I live alone so only have my own washing to do. I put a load in twice a week and fire in everything that needs washed, towels, clothing, sheets, whatever... I never separate and put everything on a 30 degree wash - am I really dirty???

Slimthistime [Grin]

That made me laugh!

Totally agree

Towels (of all sorts) and bedding together at a high temp. Although sometimes they are separated, depending on load size.

Clothes in at 30-50 degrees.

I wash sheets, towels, face cloths and tea towels all together at 60 degrees. All our bedding and towels are white. Only my DS has coloured bedding, washed at 40.

LightastheBreeze I was all towels together at 60 with biological powder.

I thought biological washing powder was less effective over 35 degrees because it killed the enzymes?

I chuck almost everything in at 35 with biological liquid and soda crystals. Only separate into dark/pale colours, towels in with clothes. Tea-towels go in separately in a 95 degree wash as a maintenance wash for the machine, every couple of weeks (change them more often but wait and wash them all at once).

Bath mats - one load?? I'm trying to figure out if you have lots of bathrooms with bathmats or you just save up a load.

Sounds bonkers to me.

Everything in together.

I mainly wash towels separately because I use fabric conditioner on everything else. (Also because bath towels/sheets are very heavy when wet & would mash creases into everything washed with them. And I don't iron so this is very important!)

Next:toilet brushes. Anyone been harmed by using one?

NearlyFree17

I'm not going to google this. Nope, not happening!

I don't use bio powder as ds2 has excema, Just non bio at 60.