Posted 12 November 2023

Towels to dry your hair

I have read that drying your hair with a bath towel will damage it as the towel has a rough surface.

Can someone recommend good value towels that I can buy which I can also use to wrap my hair to dry before I blow dry my hair? Thanks.
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  1. Mendoza's avatar
    my sister has a turbitowel
    mutley1's avatar
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    thanks, i googled this and have bought one
  2. AMaky's avatar
    if you are just wrapping it around then technically you are not drying, I.e. rubbing your hair with a towel but letting water soak in. so any towel will do.
    DaveG46's avatar
    Sounds like way too much common sense 😁
  3. C0mm0d0re_K1d's avatar
    Just curious, how do towels supposedly damage hair. Especially if their soft?

    Sounds like a marketing claim from the hairdryer association!

    I thought the heat and excessive use of a hairdryer was more damaging to hair than a towel.
    mutley1's avatar
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    Bath towels aren't soft. The ones we have feel like I am wiping myself with sand paper

    I think if you really want to protect your hair, you don't want to rub it with anything abrasive and our bath towels are pretty abrasive!

    Like you don't want to clean your phone with a kitchen cloth. (edited)
  4. lzzwzz's avatar
    I use Turkish hammam towels. Thin and lightweight but absorbent.
  5. I_Zebra's avatar
    If your hair is long then you can get a lot of water out quickly by wrapping large sections with a towel and squeezing. I only use a hairdryer in winter as you can go outside with damp hair and it dries quite quickly. I've just bought a hairdryer by Aigostar on Amazon which claims to help your hair by producing negative jobs but suspect this is pure kiddology.
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