We do it everyday and rarely give it any thought. How can you dry yourself off more efficiently after a bath or a shower?

Before using a towel, use your hand to ‘scrape’ as much water off your body as possible – much like using a leather cloth when washing a car.

Below, the images of the front and back of a rectangular towel are shown.

The towel faces are split up into the sections of the body that they should dry:

 

 

The Sequence:

1. Start with your HAIR
2. Move onto your FACE
3. Dry ARMS
4. ***Reverse towel***
5. TORSO
6. Dry LEGS

So, why is this the most efficient way?

1. Each body part has a specific area on the towel – this avoids one area of the towel becoming saturated with water and therefore lowering its drying capabilities.
2. The sequence moves from the top of the body down, avoiding re-wetting of lower areas due to surface ‘run-off’.

 

Why are the areas split the way they are?

1. Depending on your hair length, sometimes washing it is not necessary. This can lead to slight greasy hair, which ideally will not touch your face. Avoiding ‘cross-contamination’ of different areas is this technique’s strong point.
2. The locations of the partitions are such that they are in the most ideally placed locations at any given time. The nearest section of the towel to a specific body part to be dried will be the one you use – as long as you move through the above sequence in order.