How to pick a good towel? What are the testing standards and items of towel products?

HOW TO PICK A GOOD TOWEL? WHAT ARE THE TESTING STANDARDS AND ITEMS OF TOWEL PRODUCTS?

1, TOWEL WEACING AND WATER ABSORPTION

The towel has three kinds of weaving methods: flat knitting, jacquard and cut pile. There are no flowers, embroidery, printing, jacquard, woven flowers and other 

fine categories; Different weaves have different costs and different prices. Generally speaking, jacquard, cut velvet cost is high, high price.

Water absorption is an important index to evaluate the performance of towel products, and the sedimentation method stipulated by the national standard can 

make an intuitive and accurate judgment on the water absorption of towels. After the sample has been washed, dried and moistened, the water absorption of 

the sample is indicated by measuring the time required from the time the sample touches the water surface to the time it is fully soaked and begins to sink under 

the standard state. Poor quality towels may appear water beads, do not penetrate the phenomenon. This may be related to the use of inferior fibers in the 

processing of the product, or the addition of too much softener in order to ensure the softness of the towel.

2, TOWEL WEIGHT AND HAIR REMOVAL RATE

1. Take the towel in your hand, weigh the weight, immediately know the good or bad; Good towels are woven with high-quality yarn, knitting density, fine and heavy

 such as high-grade towels used in four-star and five-star hotels, durable, can withstand washing machine washing many times; The low-grade towel yarn is poor 

the knitting density is small, very light, not durable, easy to rot.

2. Hair removal rate is also one of the important quality indicators of towels. After the sample is moistened, washed, dried and then moistened, the quality loss 

rate of the sample before and after washing is measured and calculated. Towel hair loss will confuse consumers, and the fibers left on the face can easily enter 

the nasal cavity with breathing after drying, which will stimulate the nasal mucosa and cause physical discomfort. The use of poor quality cotton fiber raw materials 

for spinning, yarn surface hair, fiber and other substances are more, used for towels, it is very easy to fall when used, resulting in high hair removal rate.

3, TOWEL THICKNESS AND PH VALUE

1. Generally good towels will be thicker, and the worse towels will be thinner. But some low-grade towels will use the method of adding long hair rings to make 

people look thicker. The way to identify is to look at it in combination with the weight, at a glance.

2. If the pH value is too high or too low, it will destroy the pH balance of human skin and cause skin allergy or infection. The national standard stipulates that the 

pH value of daily towels ranges from 4.0 to 8.5. Human skin is weakly acidic, in order to prevent the invasion of viruses, the pH value of textiles between slightly 

acidic and neutral is conducive to protecting human skin health. Too high or too low will destroy the balance of the human skin surface, easily lead to diseases 

such as atopic dermatitis. In the dyeing, finishing process will use dyes, softeners, fixing agents and other chemical additives, but improper treatment will affect 

the pH value.

4, TOWEL MATERIAL AND COLOR FASTNESS

Good towels are 100% cotton, while bad towels have lower cotton content. Better towels will add a certain percentage of recycled fiber to increase the water 

absorption and softness of the towel.

Pure cotton towels are generally dyed with reactive dyes, when dyed dark towels, there is a large amount of hydrolytic fuel adsorbed on the fiber, it is difficult to wash, 

so the first washing will have a decolorization phenomenon, if the light towel first washing more or dark towel washing still fade color, is the dye unqualified or dyeing 

process caused. Color fastness is good and poor, directly related to the health and safety of the human body, dye molecules and heavy metal ions may be absorbed 

by the human body through the skin and harm the health of the human skin.

5, TOWEL FUNCTION AND FIBER CONTENT

1. Antibacterial towel, antibacterial and anti-mite towel, moisture absorption and quick drying towel (also known as mass towel), etc. The cost of function is high, and 

the price is naturally high. Different towel brands will lead to a wide difference in price, and the price between different towel brands with the same texture can even 

reach 10 times the difference. Whether the towels used at home or in star-rated hotels, as long as we master the method, we do not have to be afraid of the harm 

of inferior towels.

2. Fiber composition is an important quality index of textiles, and products made of low-quality yarn or waste seriously affect the interests of consumers.