The towels we dry ourselves with get a lot of use and pick up a lot of microbes along the way. But how long should you wait before throwing them into the laundry?
Scott suggests laundering towels once a week. However, this recommendation is not a set rule.
“It doesn’t make a whole lot of sense because if someone is sick, they’ve got vomiting and diarrhoea,” she says. “They need to have their own towel and those towels need to be laundered on a daily basis. That’s what we call targeted hygiene, you deal with the risk as it occurs.”
tl;dr: