These are exactly right.
It's 'just a washcloth, right?' - Wrong, especially in my house. My midlife crisis car wasn't a car, it was new towels. I've lived my life with the last ten years being happy with my upgraded Target and Wal-Mart towels or whatever discount steal I could pick up at Ross Dress for Less. After spending a whole lot of money on matching bath sheet and bath mat from Frontline Resort Collection - IYKYK - I knew it wasn't realistic to spend that kind of money on a dozen or more matching wash cloths. Especially because I am hard on mine. I use them as hand-towels as well, and I ask a lot of them when showering. I want them to be soft but still exfoliate. I want them to be durable but not utilitarian. I don't want them to have the band or decorative strip that shrink more than the rest of the towel when you accidentally dry them on cotton/high heat or they are ten years old (don't judge, ya'll - I was being good to the earth). I wanted them to have good well-sewn borders that weren't going to fray and come apart. I need them white because white washcloths just go with everything and help me find stains that didn't come out. I want them 100% cotton because microfiber is basically plastic and too much exfoliation. I want the loop cotton surface to be thick enough it's not a shop towel but not so thick my bar soap gets lost in it along with the worked up lather and make them bulky when folded in quarters, which is how I store mine so they fit their basket I keep them in. When I prepped them on arrival, putting them on a no-heat cycle for 90 minutes to get all the lint out, there really wasn't that much. When I laundered them immediately after for their first use, and dried them on the sensor dry on cotton/high heat, there was even less shedding the dryer lint filter picked up, even with my four merino wool dryer balls. I was very pleased by this. If you are on the fence about purchasing, go for it. They are an extraordinary value, but you do have to consider what you consider 'thin' because these are not plush at all. I like and need that because I hang dry mine in the shower after use and I need them to actually dry, and then go into the laundry hamper dry so they don't mildew waiting for wash day. These are thin enough to do that and dry completely even scrunched up on the hook. They are very soft but still sturdy in their loop weave, and I will only buy these from now on for our house. Read more