Have you ever had the feeling that no matter how many times you wash your towels, they are never that clean? Well, you’re right. There’s a new viral cleaning trend sweeping the nation, and it’s called “taking off your towels. It involves soaking the towels with a combination of cleaning products, and the water you end up pouring into the tub is really gross, and I still can’t look away.
Facebook user Jared Guynes explains: “So my wife Ashley Guynes looked up something online about ‘towel bars’, where a specific combination of household cleaning chemicals is used to thoroughly clean the towels.
In this case, she took our clean towel collection, again, the towels were totally clean, washed and folded and in the linen closet, completely clean, completely normal.
So he took those clean towels, and he put them here in the tub with this mixture of baking soda Arm & Hammer, Borax and OxiClean, and hot water, and he soaked these things overnight.
“This water is the result. The story he told me is that during years of use, microscopic amounts of soap and detergent get trapped in the fibers of the towels. Over time, these products get dirty and can also trap microscopic amounts of dirt and bacteria, even after being washed in the machine with detergent.
After seeing someone else do it, he decided to experiment with our own towels here in the tub.
I am literally going crazy right now.
The towels in your house, as clean as you think they are, are probably as dirty as this,” says Jared.
Well, there you go, folks. The combined power of Baking Soda, Borax and OxiClean can turn your seemingly clean towels into really clean ones. I can’t wait to try this with my own towels, although I have to admit I’m a little nervous about how the water looks afterwards!