Buy a towel tip: first use a paper towel

Not long ago, a certain media reported that most of the carcinogens that loved the color of the towel, benzidine, exceeded the standard, and some even exceeded the national mandatory standards by several hundred times. Experts from the Quality Inspection Department of the National Cotton Textile Testing Center believe that the color loss of towels is not equal to the presence of toxic and hazardous substances, and some products produced by regular manufacturers will also have a layer of floating color.

So can the color drop be the standard for distinguishing the quality of the towel?

Zhang Yan, a researcher at the China Textile Academy, told us an easy way to identify a colorful towel with a clean paper towel or a few pots of water. Because the main reason for the unqualified towel is that the water absorption and color fastness are not up to standard, the towel with poor color fastness will obviously fade, but some regular products will have floating color. When shopping, just use paper towels on the selected towel. A few times on the back and forth, if the color is only slightly stained on the paper towel or not stained at all, it indicates that the color fastness of the towel is very good, and it is a quality product. On the contrary, the color on the paper towel is obvious, and the towel is easy to fade. The color fastness is relatively poor, and the quality is naturally discounted.

Of course, after the towel is bought home, it can be washed several times in clean water. Generally speaking, a good quality towel will only wash off some floating color during the first cleaning. If it fades every time, it is best not to wash your face with this quality towel, otherwise it will be like using "chemical dyes" to wash your face. Over time, the damage to the skin is not small.

Smell before picking

In fact, you should smell the smell of the towel before picking a colorful towel, because some manufacturers of inferior towels use some banned dyes, and these dyes contain benzidine carcinogens, which will produce thorns. The smell of the nose. There are also some inferior towels that have the taste of fish and gasoline. They are not caused by storage or transportation. They are caused by oil leakage from the manufacturer's mechanical processing equipment and are not in compliance with sanitary standards. Therefore, good quality colored towels should have no odor. of.

Cotton towels are preferred

For color towels of various textures, cotton towels with good water absorption and breathability are the first choice for skin care. When choosing a cotton towel, look at the light to see if the color of the towel is even and soft. If the color is too bright, it is made of polyester or other fibers. At the same time, feel the softness of the towel by hand. If it is uneven in hardness, hard, or hard, it is not pure cotton. It is also possible to extract two cotton threads from it. If the sound is relatively crisp, the quality is good and there is no crisp sound, indicating that the quality is poor.

Inferior cotton towels, often not 100% pure cotton, but doped with a considerable proportion of chemical fiber, easy to pilling, used to wash your face, obviously irritating the skin, so buy a quality cotton towel with guaranteed quality, Or should go to a special store or supermarket to buy.