Linens

• The company has also purchased new equipment and hired additional craftsmen to help fulfill orders and meet the rapid demand for this coming season.
• "We are very excited to bring this new level of comfort, design, and quality to our long line of mattresses," says Custom Mattress Factory's communications director, Tiffany Ellis.
• Custom Mattress Factory is dedicated to sourcing the world's finest organic cotton to provide consumers with top-notch products that focus on quality.
• Among a range of options, Custom Mattress Factory can design round corners, cut corners, and notched corners, as well as hinged mattresses to create total flexibility.

• Everyone seems to have a different opinion when it comes to how often towels and bed sheets should be washed.
• While every week or two will generally suffice for sheets, towels are best washed every few days.

Why you should wash towels more often

• You also deposit a hefty amount of dead skin, microbes, sweat and oils onto your sheets every night.
• Towels are also made of a thicker material than sheets and therefore tend to stay damp for longer.
• As well as odours, exposure to these microbes in your towels and sheets can cause asthma, allergic skin irritations, or other skin infections.

So what’s the ideal frequency?

• As a rule of thumb, once a week or every two weeks should be fine.
• Towels should ideally be washed more regularly – perhaps every few days – while your facecloth should be cleaned after every use.
• Because it gets completely wet, it will be wet for a longer time, and retain more skin cells and microbes.

Smelly towels

• What if you regularly wash your towels, but they still smell bad?
• It’s important to hang your towel out to dry after use and not to leave towels in the washing machine after the cycle has finished.
• And it can be difficult to get your towels smelling fresh again.

What about ‘self-cleaning’ sheets and towels?

• Quick-dry towels are made from synthetic materials that are weaved in a way to allow them to dry quickly.
• The antibacterial compounds will stop the growth of bacteria and can be useful to limit smells and reduce the frequency with which you need to clean your sheets and towels.
• So as much as I would love the idea of sheets and towels that clean themselves, that’s not exactly what happens.

Rietie Venter received funding from various national and international funding bodies.

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