Why do we wash bath towels? Aren't we clean when we use them?

Answer 1

One can only hope... But dead skin cells and stuff get stuck on the towel, and sharing an unwashed towel would be super gross. Would you want to dry your face with a towel someone else used on their feet?

Answer 2

We should be clean but there's a thing called bacteria that lives on all humans. They spread to the towels and if you have bad skin like me, you need to use a clean towel every time or the bacteria will make you break out. Plus not everyone gets as clean as they should be.

Answer 3

You get dirty again as soon as you get out of the tub. You are dirty while you are showering. The only way your body will be 100% clean, physically, is if you are dead. Your towel collects germs. Every once in a while you need to wash it. Use a fresh one evey week. Remember, you shed dead skin, secrete oils, sweat and other bodily fluids. You don't want all of that to build up on your bath towel. You will get dirty again and you and that towel will stink.

Answer 4

Of course when you are not using your towel, its probably hanging on the door, right? Well you know people are probably using that same towel to dry there hands. This is not very sanitary. You shed skin cells as you dry your body and they collect on the towel. This is why you must never use somebody Else's used towel because there is a chance of spreading herpes, crabs , or Staph infection if that person is infected. I use white bath towels once ,and toss it in the hamper to be washed in hot, bleachy water. I know serious kosher people who dry with disposible paper towels to reduce risk of spreding germs.

Answer 5

Because when you use a towel to dry off it gets wet and then bacteria grows on it. That's why you have to wash bath towels even though you're supposedly clean when you use them.

Answer 6

If you are cool with drying of your crack under the false impression it's squeaky clean and the following day, taking that towel and drying you face, then don't wash your towels. It's kinda a personal decision, but as for me, I'll wash them.

Answer 7

1. You're clean, but you're not sterile. There are bacteria on your body that get onto the towel when you wipe. Bacteria like to be warm and wet, and your towel is warm and wet, so they multiply on there.

2. Fungus like mildew is in the air all around us. It falls out of the air onto your towel. Like bacteria, fungus also likes to be warm and wet.

3. Pieces of skin and stuff get onto the towel, as well as dirt that was on your body.

If you don't wash your towel for a while, all these factors will combine to make your towel a bit stiff and funky. Wash 'em regularly.

Answer 8

We also perspire when we shower and we are'nt that squeaky clean every where on the body and there might be some grime we wipe off with the towel which has a hardness greater than our wet hands. Essentially we are cleaner when we are done wiping and driying ourselves than we stopped the shower. Our towels took off grime and sweat that we assume were all gone with the falling water. Yeah right .....you know this.

Answer 9

well there are many reasons lets starte with water we dry off so the towel sits with water on it wich causes oder and bacteria which means its no longer clean plus theres dead skin hair and all sorts of other grose stuff that you get on your towel so if you werent to clean it you'd be drying off with a very dirty towel eeew i dont even use the same towel twice

Answer 10

I would say that there are parts of your body that never really get clean. Such as the area around the orfice that removes waste from your body. No matter how clean you get you really never get that area totally clean. So You can probably get away with a couple of usages but I wouldn't go more than that.