If you’re thinking about treating yourself to some new linens for your home, you should consider the new technology breakthrough in the world of fibers: microfiber bath towels.
What is microfiber? A revolutionary combination of synthetic fabrics, typically including a blend of acrylic, rayon, nylon, or polyester, that yields a lightweight yet extremely absorbent towel. A microfiber bath towel absorbs as much as 7 times its weight in water, making it the most absorbent towel available on the market today, by a wide margin.
The absorbency is a result of up to 100,000 tiny synthetic fibers per square inch! This impressive fiber count also makes a microfiber towel one of the softest towels money can buy; even softer than the king of towels – the 100% Egyptian cotton towel. And there’s more.
Microfiber bath towels dry very quickly, making them energy efficient and ideal for swimmers and people who take more than one shower a day. Anyone who’s ever done their own laundry knows how long it takes traditional towels to dry. While microfiber towels are more expensive to buy, the added cost looks very affordable over time when you factor in the energy savings you’ll get from less time in the dryer.
So where’s the best place to buy these modern marvels at an affordable price? Unfortunately, their most popular use to date has been for cleaning applications. Their quick drying properties and softness make them ideal for streak and scratch free cleaning without using multiple towels or waiting forever for your damp towels to dry.
Brick and mortar retail outlets like Target, Bed Bath and Beyond, and Wal-Mart offer a few cleaning towels, but few, if any, microfiber bath towels. That leaves you with the Internet.
Even the giant of online sales, Amazon.com, has not yet extended their microfiber towel offerings from cleaning applications to bath towels. However, there are specialty niche websites, like microfiber-products-online.com and simplygoodstuff.com, where you can buy microfiber bath towels at prices that are less expensive than you might think. For example, you can get a 26’ by 48’ microfiber bath towel for around $25. Simplygoodstuff.com offers volume discount pricing, which makes these towels a little more affordable.
Microfiber bath towels are sure to grow in popularity, so in the not too distant future you can expect to see more availability of both product offerings and places from which you can buy. In the meantime, shop carefully, as there is much confusing advertising when it comes to bath towel fabric.
For example, don’t confuse microcotton with microfabric. Microcotton is comprised of Sea Island cotton and is purported to be as soft and absorbent as Egyptian cotton. There’s another newer fabric out there, called Suprima, which is also a cotton based fabric. The descriptions of many towels are not clear as to the percentage of fabrics used.
Unless you read 100% of whatever, you might not know exactly what you are paying for. But one thing you can be sure of. No cotton based towels have the quick drying properties of 100% microfiber bath towels.