{"id":7791,"date":"2020-12-01T14:46:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-01T12:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bbtrack.bathroombutler.com\/?p=7791"},"modified":"2025-09-17T18:09:55","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T22:09:55","slug":"how-often-must-i-wash-my-towel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bbtrack.bathroombutler.com\/us\/blog\/how-often-must-i-wash-my-towel\/","title":{"rendered":"How often must I wash my towel?"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n

How many times can a bath towel be used after showers before it has to be washed?<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

We get it. Laundry is one of the least fun things you can do. Wanting to know how many times you can get away with not washing a bath towel is perfectly understandable. Still, much like \u201chow long is a piece of string?\u201d this question\u2019s answer will vary depending on who you ask. Unless you\u2019re asking a microbiologist, of course. But first, let\u2019s get one thing straight\u2026<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Yep, it\u2019s definitely dirty<\/strong><\/h2>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Many think that, because you\u2019re only using your towel to dry your freshly clean body after a shower or bath, it\u2019s not getting dirty. But they\u2019d be wrong. As it turns out, John Mayer was right. Your body is a wonderland. But one that\u2019s literally teeming with a billion invisible microorganisms like bacteria and fungus! They\u2019re so tiny and plentiful, in fact, that showering or bathing is never going to shift them. They will, however, enjoy a free ride onto your towel when you dry yourself off. Initially, this isn\u2019t a problem. Bacteria are fungus everywhere. But if your damp towel remains that way and doesn\u2019t get dried completely as well as fast, it becomes the perfect environment for these microbiotas to grow.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Time is of the essence<\/strong><\/h2>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

To avoid unwittingly turning your towel into a Club Med for bacteria and fungus, ensuring that it dries completely between uses is important. However, ensuring that it dries FAST is even better. A study performed by a group of microbiologists found that, when bath towels were dried on\u00a0heated towel racks<\/a>, their microbial load was reduced from 1000 cfu*\/g to just 1 cfu\/g! The reason for their finding? Heated towel racks work fast! In fact, a top-quality heated towel rack such as those you\u2019ll find at Bathroom Butler can completely dry your towel in as little as four hours! This way, you can pump the breaks on bacteria and fungus\u2019 breeding time.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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So, the big question!<\/strong><\/h2>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Clearly, when it comes to assessing how \u201cdirty\u201d your towel is, you have to use your head, not your eyes. If the last two days have seen it spend more time being damp then dry, you\u2019ll want to wash it. However, if it\u2019s been dried quickly after each use, it\u2019ll definitely have much fewer \u201cnasties\u201d and this means you won\u2019t have to wash it as often to keep things clean and hygienic. Many don\u2019t realise it, but this is the main reason why heated towel racks are such a popular bathroom enhancer. They don\u2019t exist to warm up your towels \u2013 their job is to dry them and do it fast. This way, you can get away with doing less laundry; don\u2019t have to rely on sunny weather for drying and don\u2019t have to turn on your power-hungry tumble dryer.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

The bottom line<\/strong><\/h2>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

So, to answer the big question \u2013 \u201chow many times can I use a towel before it has to be washed?\u201d \u2013 if you\u2019ve got a Bathroom Butler heated towel rack, definitely a lot less than you would otherwise! If you\u2019re so uninspired by laundry that you\u2019re googling to find out the bare minimums you can get away with doing it, perhaps consider this the sign you were looking for.\u00a0It\u2019s time to buy a\u00a0heated towel rack<\/a>!<\/strong><\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many think that, because you\u2019re only using your towel to dry your freshly clean body after a shower or bath, it\u2019s not getting dirty. But they\u2019d be wrong.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":81,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[287],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-heated-towel-rack"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbtrack.bathroombutler.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbtrack.bathroombutler.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbtrack.bathroombutler.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbtrack.bathroombutler.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/81"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbtrack.bathroombutler.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7791"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bbtrack.bathroombutler.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14393,"href":"https:\/\/bbtrack.bathroombutler.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7791\/revisions\/14393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbtrack.bathroombutler.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbtrack.bathroombutler.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbtrack.bathroombutler.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}