Car Towels: The 3 Advantages of Microfiber Towels
In the last 10 years there have been many significant improvements in car towels.
First, the arrival of microfiber has created a towel that is far more durable, soft, and absorbent than the towels that it replaces.
These new towels have more fiber's per square inch than cotton or polyester.
They were created for the janitorial business, and only in the last decade have they become affordable enough to be integrated into public carwashes, car detailing shops, and the garages of car enthusiasts.
These new towels are available as car drying towels, polishing towels, interior cleaning towels, and window cleaning towels.
Microfiber has a significantly more dense fiber pattern.
This means that it is significantly more absorbent than cotton.
Estimates place the absorbency at about double the rate of natural fibers.
The advantage of this is that you can clean the interior of your car or dry your car and swap out your towels about half as often.
It also means that you have to wash your towels about half as often.
Plus, there are significant time savings involved with not having to reach for a fresh towel as frequently.
And there are energy and cost savings in not having to launder your towels as often.
The second great improvement delivered by microfiber is its durability.
Cotton towels used to shed fibers while being washed and after a significant number of washes these towels became thin and eventually useless.
This simply does not happen with the synthetic fibers of microfiber.
You can watch them frequently for many years with no fiber loss, and no loss of performance.
Some heavy-duty towels such as those used to clean cars will often rip or tear with frequent washing and drying.
But microfibers react much better to the process of becoming wet and evaporating dry.
They keep their softness, and they keep their absorbency.
Although they are a more expensive investment initially, it is not long until their durability pays off.
At a very fine level, the softness of microfiber makes it a much safer alternative for waxing and polishing paint.
Cotton, which used to be the most common fiber for polishing and waxing cars, actually leaves some very fine scratches on paint services.
These may not be immediately visible, but cumulatively they do add up and make paint finishes dull.
Particularly dark cars show the sort of micro scratching that cotton producers.
However, with microfiber towels, there are so many fibers per square inch that these tiny individual strings cannot individually scratch the paint surface in a way that can be seen.
The result is that automotive enthusiasts can count on having a soft towel to preserve the reflection of their car's paint finish.
First, the arrival of microfiber has created a towel that is far more durable, soft, and absorbent than the towels that it replaces.
These new towels have more fiber's per square inch than cotton or polyester.
They were created for the janitorial business, and only in the last decade have they become affordable enough to be integrated into public carwashes, car detailing shops, and the garages of car enthusiasts.
These new towels are available as car drying towels, polishing towels, interior cleaning towels, and window cleaning towels.
Microfiber has a significantly more dense fiber pattern.
This means that it is significantly more absorbent than cotton.
Estimates place the absorbency at about double the rate of natural fibers.
The advantage of this is that you can clean the interior of your car or dry your car and swap out your towels about half as often.
It also means that you have to wash your towels about half as often.
Plus, there are significant time savings involved with not having to reach for a fresh towel as frequently.
And there are energy and cost savings in not having to launder your towels as often.
The second great improvement delivered by microfiber is its durability.
Cotton towels used to shed fibers while being washed and after a significant number of washes these towels became thin and eventually useless.
This simply does not happen with the synthetic fibers of microfiber.
You can watch them frequently for many years with no fiber loss, and no loss of performance.
Some heavy-duty towels such as those used to clean cars will often rip or tear with frequent washing and drying.
But microfibers react much better to the process of becoming wet and evaporating dry.
They keep their softness, and they keep their absorbency.
Although they are a more expensive investment initially, it is not long until their durability pays off.
At a very fine level, the softness of microfiber makes it a much safer alternative for waxing and polishing paint.
Cotton, which used to be the most common fiber for polishing and waxing cars, actually leaves some very fine scratches on paint services.
These may not be immediately visible, but cumulatively they do add up and make paint finishes dull.
Particularly dark cars show the sort of micro scratching that cotton producers.
However, with microfiber towels, there are so many fibers per square inch that these tiny individual strings cannot individually scratch the paint surface in a way that can be seen.
The result is that automotive enthusiasts can count on having a soft towel to preserve the reflection of their car's paint finish.
