Absorbing water
Microfiber is designed to wick the water off of vehicle surfaces, and it will hold more water than a traditional towel. that a cotton towel will absorb liquid the same way medical gauze does, but it can get saturated quickly. Comparatively, a microfiber towel can hold up to four times its weight in water, so it will hold more water than a cotton option.
Towel lint
Next, cotton towels produce lint, and when they age, more lint . There are cotton options available that are made with lint-suppression technology, but they still release lint, Microfiber, even as it ages, does not create lint.
Extracting
When a traditional towel is washed and extracted at a carwash, it still holds a fair amount of water, When a microfiber one is extracted, more water leaves the towel.
Towel smell
“A cotton towel, especially after a rainy weekend in a hot climate, smells [awful]. That is bacteria breaking down the damp towel,” “Microfiber is impervious to bacteriological disintegration.”
Price and durability
The microfiber price point is either the same as a cotton towel or costs a little less, While a cotton towel may last three or four months in the carwash environment, a microfiber will last up to 2,000 years in a landfill. “Between the lint, the sustainability of the towel [and] the performance, microfiber has it all over cotton towels,”
Microfiber care
One downside to microfiber also involves its unique split fibers. Even though a carwash owner may wash microfiber towels regularly, the split fibers begin to gently and slowly accumulate whatever they are cleaning, Each time a microfiber towel is washed, it holds on to a small, microscopic percentage of what it cleaned. Then, the fibers begin to mat together.
“That’s not necessarily true of cotton towels because they don’t really clean as well or hold as much.”
Post time: Aug-09-2024