You probably change your bath towel less than you should

Just as important as taking a bath and sending away dead bacteria and cells is essential to maintain your hygiene in other respects as well, such as how often you wash your bath towel.

This fuzzy piece of cloth is actually a nook of bacteria, fungi, dead cells, and even anal and urinary secretions - it is. Basically, every time you take a shower and come out clean and smelly, your body becomes wrapped in a cloth that hides all these nasty little things.

The truth is that bath towels are an ideal environment for the proliferation of bacteria, after all they are moist, hot and have neutral pH. In addition to an ideal “house”, bacteria eventually feed on the cells in these tissues - that is, towels are great homes and restaurants for microorganisms.

How to deal?

The good news in this indigestible story is that these microbes don't hurt us, even because they come from our own bodies. What is not cool is to share bath towels with someone else, because then we “steal” bacteria from others and cause our body to live with microorganisms with which it is not used, such as staphylococcus, which can cause us skin irritations, pimples and infections.

At this point in the championship, there is the question that doesn't want to be silent: how many times should we change our bath towel, then? Well ... The answer may startle you and make you realize that you are not being hygienic enough, but the ideal, dear reader, is that you change the piece after using it a maximum of three times, and this only works if if it has dried completely between uses. Damp towels are clogged with microorganisms - do not dry your body with them.

* Posted on 2/14/2017