How to choose your beach towel? - She Decoration
Choose the material of your towel
Most of the time, the towel is made of cotton – although bamboo is starting to make an appearance. A towel is classified according to its weight per square meter. This index can allow you to select the desired comfort. Warning: think about the weight to carry once the towel is wet. A large or nomadic family will not necessarily choose a velvet model.
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What weight should you choose for your beach towel?
It all depends on the material of your beach towel, a heavy weight being a guarantee of softness, of course, but it is also the assurance of maximum bulk.
Long loop, chiselled loop, hollowed out, bamboo, cotton, linen, often reach 600 g/m 2 . Cotton velvets weigh 500 g/m 2 . Honeycomb towels with good absorbency are the queens of light travel with a weight of approximately 250 g/m 2 . The interest of foutas, in addition to their aesthetic value, also lies in their finesse and lightness and, in fact, in their small size in luggage.
The sports towel in microfiber technical material (often in polyester and nylon) is also intended to be hyper-absorbent for a derisory weight, but it does not have the same decorative advantages. We therefore choose it for swimming sessions at the pool or for the gym and we keep the pretty Tunisian towel for the summer.
What size bath towel to choose?
The choice of format depends essentially on the use made of it. It is said that the bath towel must measure at least 90x150 cm in order to be able to wrap comfortably after swimming. It is not uncommon to find 100x180 cm beach towels and 100x170 cm beach towels. But the most comfortable models have no size limit other than your ability to carry them to your spot on the beach. We will also make sure to choose a beach bag accordingly.
For comparison, a standard hand towel usually measures 50x90 cm; the shower sheet, 50x120 cm; the guest towel 30x50 cm.
If these are towels intended primarily to protect the deckchairs around the swimming pool after use by bathers, this little nomadic use makes it possible to consider XXL formats of towels (220x90 cm) because you will not have to transport them very far.
The other criteria for choosing a beach towel
What can still influence your choice of beach towel? In addition to its origin – which we prefer French or European – its brand, trendy or luxury, it is of course necessary to take care to follow the washing recommendations.
If you plan to wash your beach towel daily, you should also plan to dry it. Heavy weight = long drying time. It's up to you to prefer the dryer, if the chosen material tolerates it, or the clothesline. Perhaps you will choose a thin, quick-drying or even antibacterial material, to be able to space out the washes.
What finishes for a beach towel
Once we have chosen the size, the material, as well as the weight of our towel, we still have to define the finishes.
For a host gift, it is possible to embroider a message, a logo, initials or even the name of a house or a boat to personalize an attention. Success assured. The choice of colors, prints, patterns can also make a difference. Finally, the Egyptian cotton insert in the center of the towel or piping all around are a must!
How to make your beach towel last?
A clever and hygienic technique consists in carrying a pareo that you will place under your beach towel. This will avoid the accumulation of sand or sometimes earth on grassy beaches on the edges of lakes.
Tips for cleaning your bath towel
If halos of sunscreen persist after washing, rubbing the stain with water and Marseille soap then rinsing thoroughly with hot water proves to be an effective grandmother's technique.
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