The Five Types Of Towels You Should Know About

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The Five Types Of Towels You Should Know About Although it is unknown exactly how long cotton has been used by humans, fragments of cotton cloth and cotton seed balls that are thought to be at least 7,000 years old, have been discovered in caves in Mexico. Around 3,000 years before Christ, cotton was farmed, spun, and fashioned into cloth in the Pakistani Indus River Valley. Egyptians from the Nile Valley started producing and using cotton clothing at around the same time. Today, cotton plays a big part in our everyday lives and cotton clothing is widely available. However, cotton is not only used to make clothing. Many other products such as bedding, tableware, rope, film, tape, and towels, are either entirely made of cotton, or cotton is used as an ingredient. Like many other products, the subjective value usually begins and ends with the consumer, but because certified Egyptian cotton is farmed only in Egypt where climatic conditions are favourable, this type of cotton is regarded as prime cotton and is therefore somewhat more expensive than other materials. Take Egyptian cotton towels for example. Nothing is more opulent than using a large, fluffy cotton towel to dry off after stepping out of the shower or bathtub. However, when you are starting with your towel collection from scratch, it can be confusing, and you may be surprised to learn that there are many different types of towels that you should know about.

The Five Types Of Towels You Should Know About Bath towels: Bath towels are widely used and are typically one of the first towels one buys. When you step out of the shower or bath, this is the towel you reach for. Towels come in different sizes, so you might choose to start with a set of regular or standard bath towels. You can always invest in larger towels for your bathroom in accordance with what your budget allows. Bathrobes: Bathrobes, which are quite similar to wrapping your body in a towel, are becoming more and more popular, especially now that people are realising how useful this product is. You can use a bathrobe, for instance, when you get out of the shower or bath, or whenever you don't need to put on clothes right away. They are ideal for use in and around the home, in a hotel room, by the pool, or even at the beach. Bathmats: Although you might not consider a bathmat to be part of the five types of towels you should know about, its main purpose is, after all, to dry your feet as you exit the shower or bathtub. Additionally, they spare you the effort of daily bathroom floor cleaning. Bathmats are normally positioned in front of your bathtub or shower, where they will collect the water that drips off your body as you exit. Hand towels: These are the type of towels you hardly ever think about until they are not available. While hand towels may not seem extremely useful, you may change your mind when looking for something to dry your hands off, after washing them. Hand towels perform exactly what they suggest: dry your hands. Beach towels: Because of their size, beach towels are sometimes not regarded as necessary or even overlooked, but once you use one where it belongs, you'll never use another towel on sandy surfaces like the beach again. Beach towels are useful to have for pool parties or other enjoyable occasions where you might need a towel with a bigger surface area. Decorative towels: One of the best ways to keep your bathroom functional while adding a splash of colour and, of course, elegance is with decorative towels. You can play around with embellishments like embroidery,


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