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8th December 2023
01:30pm GMT
A lot of us just throw them straight into the washing machine on a wing and a prayer, hoping that they'll turn out okay.
Yet despite your best efforts often time they may look clean but they still come out with that smell, you know the one, just a bit musty not as fresh as your bed linens would be.
On top of this, if you're using micro fibre towels to dry your dishes, they may be holding onto some hidden grime.
Well, one mum learned a hack to knock the nasty out of her towels thanks to one of her friends.
The best part of this hack, besides reduced must, is that you might just have the necessary items hanging out under your kitchen sink.
Kidspot reports that the resourceful woman, who is understood to be from Australia, took to a cleaning hacks Facebook group, where she wrote: "These dishcloths have been put through the wash and we regularly rotate them but I still felt they were a bit stinky.
"A friend suggested boiling them with a few drops of dishwashing liquid as a degreaser."
She accompanied her useful post with a pic of the tea towels, which she'd placed in a saucepan of water that had quickly become utterly filthy.
"This is the second round, and they might need a third and fourth," she explained.
Sharing what she's learned from her experiment, the savvy mum advised that her hack is most effective when using water that has been boiled over 60 degrees in a large pot, adding that vinegar may well do a better job than a squirt of dishwashing liquid.
Don't mind us gathering up all our tea towels.
