Depending on the length of your hair, shampooing it can be a long, laborious process. Of course, drying your locks may well be more time-consuming than actually washing them, unless you simply let it dry naturally.This is not always a viable solution, though, when you have places to be and things to do. Men and women alike use towels vigorously, hair dryers, or both, but these can lead to frizzy, damaged hair. For women who wrap a standard, heavy cotton towel around their hair and leave it to absorb the moisture, the weight may well be enough to cause breakage around the hair’s roots, leading to short hairs near the hairline. You wouldn’t use your body products on your hair, so why are you using your regular bath towel to dry your strands? The truth is, if you’re after smooth, frizz-free locks, cotton bath towels just don’t cut it! Which is why you’ll need to add the miraculous microfibre quality to your head wraps. From super-speedy drying to bouncier curls and unbelievable shine, there are countless reasons a microfiber towel is better for your hair. Not convinced? Read the main (or should we say mane?) benefits you’ll experience when you make the switch to microfiber.
First things first: microfiber is classified as any fiber with a single denier or less. Being just around 100 times finer than a human hair, a square inch on a microfiber towel holds close to 200,000 fibers, which creates a larger surface area in which to absorb moisture. For this reason, drying your hair with a microfiber towel will be a faster process than with a cotton towel. After wrapping your hair in a microfiber towel for around 30 minutes, it will be almost totally dry. Another benefit is the lack of friction caused. With no need to rub the hair to extract the water, less strain and friction is imposed on your hairs, leading to less breakage over time. In terms of the worst possible ways to dry your hair, we’d put rubbing it vigorously with a bath towel up there pretty close to the top. Rubbing works the hair in all the wrong ways, encouraging frizz and breakage to proliferate.For curly hair especially, it helps to create that frizzy, tangled mane which gives this hair type its reputation for being uncontrollable. Say goodbye to the rub and with it, frizz. A hair towel allows you to simply wrap your hair snugly in super-absorbent microfiber.
Thick hair needs a lot of moisture, but it needs the right type of moisture – of which water is not. In fact, letting water sit in thick hair for too long can prove harmful.Yet, thick hair also introduces the additional challenge of making it difficult to get to all of the water hiding at the roots. That makes it difficult to simply air-dry thick hair. The tips and top layers will dry quickly but underneath might stay wet for hours. On the other hand, thick hair is where the absorbency and water-wicking superpowers of microfiber reallyshines. It doesn’t just soak up what’s sitting on the top. It actively draws water from the entire strand of the hair into its folds.
Sure, a turban is stylish – more importantly, though, they’re functional. Keeping your hair wrapped up while it’s wet is faster than air drying. That’s why it’s so popular to wrap the towel up around your hair while you go about the rest of your routine. But if you ask us, we’d rather rock a lightweight, perfectly fitted one than the traditional towel turban we spent years learning to balance.For one, it’s plain easier. There are no readjustments and no slippage. Your hands stay free and you can move about without interruption. Plus, no heavy towel on your head means no neck pain or straining under its weight. Balancing that towel turban is equivalent to a thirty-minute yoga session which emphasizes poor posture. Do that every day, and your back and neck will hurt over time.
Also they are super easy to pack! Going on vacation? To the beach? A sleepover? The gym? Throw a microfiber hair towel into your bag and feel confident that your hair will look gorgeous no matter where you go. Their much smaller size makes them a breeze to pack. If you need to, you can even pack more than one. Roll them up nice and tight or use them to pad something more delicate. Go ahead, save that suitcase space for something cute.
And when it comes to laundry, the only thing that bath towels have going for them is that they’re easy to fold. Otherwise, they’re bulky, can get extremely smelly and usually choke up the dryer with a thick coating of lint. Not to mention that you’re doing an extra load dedicated solely to your towels.Hair towels, on the other hand, are just as easy to fold but don’t need an entire washer and dryer to themselves. You’ll save time, money, and energy.
