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Liebeco Baden Bath Linen Collection

Eco Linen/Cotton blend towels.
Colors: Flax, Oyster.
70% Linen, 30% Cotton.
Bath Sheet 35" x 63"
Bath Towel 21.5" x 39"
Guest Towel 13" x 20"
Wash Cloth 13" x 13"
Wash Mitt 6" x 9"

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Caring For Your Towels
Hot, cold, delicate, permanent, air-dry, or cool-dry? There's only one thing we love more than our organic cotton towels, and it's the many years we get to enjoy them. To make sure we treat them as good as they treat us, we break out the basics with our product team:

• Washing in cold water is preferred, delicate cycle. Cold water is fine for whites and ivory but warm is okay, too. With new laundry detergents on the market, most are very effective in cold water.
• Use a mild laundry detergent, liquid, powder or capsule.
• Avoid chlorine bleach and fabric softeners. Chlorine bleach is prohibited by GOTS in textile processing, which is why Coyuchi uses hydrogen peroxide for their whites. Non-chlorine bleaches are best since chlorine can turn cottons yellow and weaken the fiber. Fabric softeners reduce the absorbency of cotton textiles, which is the opposite of what you want for a cotton towel. Lastly, fabric softeners should not be used in the wash cycle and no drier sheets in the drying cycle.
• Avoid washing in hot water or drying at high temperatures.
• Air-drying towels is great, especially if you like to bring the outside in and it saves energy. Machine drying is best at a low temperature. Turn the temperature setting of your dryer down to low and discover that everything in the dryer still dries! When you dry towels at a high temperature, the towels start to feel hard, they lose the soft plush feel that drew you in to buying them in the first place.
• When to replace your towels? That's a personal choice since everyone has a different idea about when a towel is 'done'. For some, it's any visible sign of wear. Eventually, all towels will lose some fiber and become less plush, the sewn edges on a colored towel can start to fade after many launderings, and all towels can have loops that snag or pull which can show some wear and tear.

Side note: Phosphates
Yes, phosphates are still in the market. Despite the detergent's ban in consumer household goods in the European Union and Australia, and select states in the U.S., we continue to see select formulas with it. The term "detergent" means a mixture of chemical compounds including alkylbenzenesulfonates (say that three-times fast) that is produced in a powdered form. The discharge of soluble phosphates impacts the environments waters, creating an alarming eutrophication. Other additives include builders (water softeners), bleach (chlorophyll, anthocyanin dyes, tannins, etc.), optical brighteners, and perfume.