Yellowing, stains and unpleasant odor will disappear: how to revive terry and kitchen towels.

New towels after prolonged use over Time become stiff and unsightly. But there is no need to buy new ones, there are many folk ways to revive old towels and restore them to their excellent condition, writes tsn.

For this, you will need a few handy and inexpensive means that are available in every home. We tell you how to return kitchen and terry towels to their original look.

How to remove stains and unpleasant odor from kitchen towels

How to whiten yellowed towels. A yellowed kitchen towel needs to be soaked, well rubbed with household soap, placed in polyethylene and left for two hours. Then wash as usual, adding a little bleach. If the stains are very old, they can be removed with peroxide. Pour peroxide on the stain and leave for 10 minutes, then wash the towel in the washing machine.

How to get rid of unpleasant odor. To prevent kitchen towels from having extraneous smells, they need to be soaked in a special solution. Pour three liters of water into a basin, add a glass of vinegar, two tablespoons of salt and fabric conditioner. Let the towels soak in such a solution for about 3-4 hours. Then just wash them.

How to soften a stiff kitchen towel. Add 200 grams of vinegar to a basin of warm water and leave the towels in the solution for 15-20 minutes. The problem of stiffness can also be solved with salt. For a liter of cold water, you need three tablespoons of salt.

How to soften old terry towels

Vinegar. To make the towels soft, they should be rinsed in a vinegar solution after washing. Add 50 grams of vinegar to 5 liters of warm water, soak the towels for 10 minutes. Then wring them out and hang to dry in fresh air.

Salt. After such a solution, the towels will become soft again. Pour five liters of warm water into a basin and add one hundred grams of salt, rinse the towels in this solution, and then rinse them again in clean water.

Soda. To make towels as soft as fluff, take a few liters of water, add three tablespoons of soda and soak the washed towels for 15 minutes. To get the maximum effect, you can soak the towels in such a solution overnight. You can also add soda to the washing powder, then the towels will also become soft after washing.

Cold water. Even clean cold water can return softness to towels. Just soak the washed towels in cold water overnight, without adding any means. The water dissolves all the remaining powder residues left after washing, and the towel becomes soft again.

Towels from the bathroom need to be washed more often than usually everyone is used to. Often after taking a shower or bath, people just leave the towels to dry, and don’t even think about washing them until they start to smell unpleasant. But doctors claim that this approach can seriously harm your health.

An unwashed towel can not only be unhygienic, but also cause an infection from the bacteria you left on it a day or a week ago.