Poll: What detergent do you use for towels?

[powerfin64]

Since the question was asked if fabric softener was used on towels, I thought a good question would be, what detergent do you use to wash your towels with?

I use either Gain Spring lavender powder, Cheer(original) powder with color guard or Tide powder, and always with a extra rinse(3 total).

 

[pulsator]

I generally use either Tide Coldwater HE liquid or Fresh Start powder with some Calgon mixed in!

 

[sudsmaster]

Currently using Kirkland liquid Free and Clear HE detergent, at least for bath towels done in the Neptune.

No fabric softener if mechanically dried. A little if the towels are going to be line-dried.

The kitchen towels go through the Miele at 160F, with the rest of the whites, usually with Sears Ultra Plus HE powder boosted with STPP. A little "env friendly" Kirkland fabric softener added to final rinse. These are always mechanically dried.

 

[jerrod6]

all of my towels are colored so I use Miele for colors Pwdr or liquid because it does not contain oba's and rinses well

 

[xraytech]

I use the Sears UltraPlus unscented powder detergent

 

[peterh770]

Whatever the detergent du jour is what is used. Currently Wisk 2x HE.

 

[appnut]

sears UltraPlus Stainfighter has been my main bubbles squeeze for the last 3 years at least.  I bought some of the new concentrated Tide HEo Pwder on sales  at the store and used that on towels and sheets the last two go rounds. 

 

[maytagbear]

Sears Ultra Plus

in the orange box. I never want to be without it.

Lawrence/Maytagbear

 

[labboy]

Most our good towels are very light in color so I use Persil Universal Megaperls. For the dark towels (mostly ratty old towels for the gym or to dry the dog) I use Tide Liquid HE.

Before I got Persil, I found the towels had an odor when using Tide. I love Persil and am looking forward to my aunt bringing me a resupply when she comes to visit from Ireland.

 

[frigilux]

All my bath towels/hand towels/wash cloths are white. I use bath towels only once, so they are lightly soiled. I wash my bath linens using powdered SA8 or UK Persil Bio Powder, both of which are low-sudsing.

I generally add 1/4 cup of liquid chlorine bleach and select the extra rinse option.

I use the Heavy Cycle (18-minute wash) and the maximum (1300 rpm) spin speed.

 

[polkanut]

I'm with Peter on this one, whatever the detergent du jour is.  Currently using Ariel w/ Oxianillos, and phosphated Viva.

 

[westie2]

Sears Ultra Plus in the orange box as we have for the past 30+ years.

 

[mrwash]

Only towles?

Sorry for the question but why does everyone wash the towles as a seperate load? I always hate it to have too many towles in one and the same load, as they absorb so many water and detergent that I get sudslock after sudslock in the intermit spins and then I would have to use any softener to kill all that foam, coming out of the towles. Thats why I mix towles with other clothes that match the color and the type of cycle and temperature, so the problem with the foam wouldn't occur. It may be different with American toploaders that use lots of water, but in my frontloader I just have to wash mixed loads or dose only little detergent. By the way, I don't see any need to wash towles seperately.

 

[franksdad]

I switch between Sears Ultra Plus in the orange box and All Free and Clear. I also use Clorox bleach.

 

[franksdad]

Also... I always wash towels as a separate load. Never do I throw a towel into another load or any other type of clothing/laundry into a load of towels. Underwear is washed as a separate load, sheets are a separate load, dress clothes are a separate load, and "play clothes" are a separate load. No. I'm NOT anal!

 

[gmmcnair]

Soap Flakes...

I use soap flakes and a liquid hydrogen peroxide bleach in my white towels. I follow up with a vinegar rinse and a line dry if I have nice weather and/or the space on my drying rack.

I always do my towels separately from other stuff. My washer has essentially no lint filtering action, so I don't risk it.

 

[pulsator]

I wash towels separately for several reasons:

1) My towels are very brightly colored and it's very pretty to watch.

2) I have too many to wash them all with other loads.

3) I wash them in hot water and I wouldn't mix them with my whites nor would I wash colored clothes in hot water.

4) I give them a lot of rinses to help aid in softening.

 

I've never had a sudsing issue with towels... Maybe you're using too much soap for the soil level?

 

[roscoe62]

I use Persils and I can't for the life of me get an HE Liquid to work on towels without a suds lock,my experience from Tide, so if anyone who uses an HE liquid other than Tide with any amount of success what is your secret? I may be willing to try it since I have read from some of you in earlier threads that a liquid keeps them softer.
Thanks

 

[whirlcool]

American towels are different than German towels. American towels are made from a more fluffier fabric. They also let out a lot of lint. Anything you wash with a towel will pretty much have lint all over it.
So this is the reason most Americans wash their towels as separate loads.

We use either Persil UK Bio or FOCA on our towels. I like to make sure they are very well rinsed.

 

[circlew]

Depending on how many I have, I will usually wash towels with socks and underwear.

 

[franksdad]

My towels are very brightly colored and it's very prett

I too have for as long as I can remember loved watching towels wash in top loading machines. Not only is watching towels wash in the washer one of my earliest memories it is one of my secret pleasures in life. Like you I think they are pretty to watch. Not being able to watch the pretty colorful towels watch is the one thing I do not like about having a front loading machine. Yeah, you can look thru the glass door and watch but it just isn't the same. And I must also confess, I've harboured a lifelong "towel fetish". I love beautiful brightly colored towels. My wife does not share this fettish and thinks towels are just a utilitarian necessity.

 

[mistereric]

Whatever I am using that week, currently powdered cheer. No softner, hot water. Towels only, or towels and sheets.

 

[hoovermatic]

Whatever is currently on the go, normally Ariel but currently Persil Bio - all my bath and hand towels are white so don't use colour varients.

 

[vintagesearch]

Recently I use arm and hammer with oxiclean. Towels and washclothes seperated by color soak and extra rinse hang dry. Other detergents I've used and like are All regular or free and clear, tide HE free and gentle...

 

[MaytagA710]

My towels get washed in hot water and a cold rinse. I use Gain regular scent. It's very rewarding when you come out of the shower and use the towel. I also wash my bed sheets in the same set up with Gain. Sniff, Sniff, Hooray!

 

[nmassman44]

For us its Tide Original scent powder with a half cup of borax. Then I add Stop and Shop brand liquid bleach for colors. For the rinse they get Downy April Fresh and not this stinky version...I am able to find the last incarnation in the refill cartons. My towels always emerge from the dryer fresh and clean. And one thing is that we use a towel twice and in the hamper it goes. I have been to a few peoples homes and they use the same towel all week then wash it in cold...talk about musty smelling.

 

[jimmyb]

Tide with Bleach

Our bath towels are white and I was using Fresh Start due to the low sudsing in the SQ front loader but recently changed to a smaller portion of regular tide with bleach (I am very interested in the new Tide with Bleach HE that I have heard about). I almost always use the front load for maximum water extraction, I wash on Hot with cold rinse as well select the extra rinse option.

I accidently put softener in the dispenser this past weekend (Snuggle white lavender sandalwood) and I think I may start doing it every third or fourth wash for the bath towels. If not using Snuggle I use Downey lavender vanilla.

 

[retromania]

Sears unsceneted formulated for he machines with warm or hot water. It really get things clean. For dark colors or things I think may fade, I used ALL Mighty concentrated unscented liquid and cold water.

I do not use fabric softener. Our water is soft where we live and I never have a problem with static elecricity. But now my Mom when she was keeping house had this little mesh bag that she put her undergarments in. Delicate cycle with a special laundry liquid she ordered from a dress shop and then they went in the dryer on low with a bounce dryer sheet. It was a ritual with her.

 

[retromania]

When I lived in my first place there WERE NO WASHER / DRYER HOOK-UPS! I know. I hope Robert is not reading this. Anyway, I did my laundry at my mother's when I would go over to eat supper. Once I reached for her special bottle laundry detergent and I glug glug some in with my wash water. Later that week she called me and asked if I had washed clothes with her special liquid. I confessed and she blew me out in a loving motherly way.

 

[dirtybuck]

Towels were washed today in Sears Ultra Plus and a bit of Clorox 2. "Hot" water was used (don't forget, I've discussed that subject before in regards to the laundromat I go to).