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Fabric shower curtains are a style solution for any bathroom but they only ever seem to be found in posh boutique hotels or abroad in places like Australia and the US. IT seems little old Blighty just hasn’t ‘cottoned’ on to this fabric shower curtain trend.

Fabric shower curtains are often made in heavy fabric which if made in good quality will drape beautifully over your bath acting as a seductive screen and a supreme setting which oozes luxury. This kind of shower curtain will add an illusion of expense and is a great way of adding a new feature to your bathroom without going to the trouble of redoing the whole room.

A fabric shower curtain is a fabulous way to draw attention to an individual characteristic bath. Victorian baths often look ridiculous when teamed with typical plastic shower curtains yet a fabric shower curtain will add to the boudoir bathroom feel and will scream luxury.

These luxury shower curtains are most accessible on many online stores as the UK high street has been late to adopt this fabric shower curtain trend. They can often be made to measure and can be customised to suit individual bathrooms.

Some people may worry about using a material shower curtain as they appear from the outside as quite delicate; however, by using some secure clips a clear plastic under shower curtain can be fitted to the luxurious outer shell creating a water proof lining. Then, when the outer shower curtain needs washing you can easily unclip it and wash it in a washing machine while the plastic liner can be simply wiped clean.

Elegant bathrooms are an ultimate goal for anyone who appreciates classic romantic style and fabric luxury shower curtains are the ultimate bathroom accessory to pull off this look. However, a few more bathroom accessories are needed to create the ultimate boutique bathroom. A good bath mat can be one of the bathroom accessories that will completely transform the look of a bathroom and when chosen to match other main features such as your luxury shower curtain, a sumptuous soft luxury bath mat will make all the difference.

Another way to wow your guests and create the ultimate in comfort is to buy a whole stack of gorgeously soft luxury bath towels. When looking for a good quality bath towel it is imperative you look at where they are made and what kind of towel you enjoy using, for example do you want it heavy and soft or would you rather it was lighter with a finer weave? Whichever bath towel you choose make sure it is super soft to make you feel like a princess every time you emerge from the tub.



By: Clara Phillips Bal

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Choosing towel tips

As you may know that there are many types of towel available, which can be made from different materials. However, the thing you should consider is the function of usage when stocking up this bathing equipment.

The best material that suitable for make towel is cotton fabric, because the main purpose of towel is to blot up water and cotton fabric is hydrophilic so it has strong ability to absorb water. However, the synthetic cotton my not be as absorbent as entire-cotton towel, because only natural cotton is more hydrophobic and it absorbs moisture into its structure, which has many of layers.

Terry cloth or Velvet?

The terry clothes generally has loops that has ability to absorb water. The most loop, the greater ability to absorb. However, some other people prefer velvet towel. Velvet towel is made by shearing process that removes part of the terry and shortens the fabric pile. However, the ability to absorb moisture of velvet towel is slightly less that terry cloth, because of it has shorter loop but this does not affect its performance as long as it is used to blot, rather than rub dry. However, in some case, if you lucky enough during shopping and you can fine the towel that one side is terrycloth and other side is velvet. The way that you can easily check the ability to absorb water of a towel is thickness, the towel has more thickness usually contain more.

There are other problems of some body who can not identify which one is made from real cotton. As mentioned above that quality of cotton is the key to identify the absorbent, so how we will know that the towel made from real cotton? The most easiest way is you have to look for the Seal of Cotton trademark, which appears on many towels, bath and bedding items.

How to keep and maintain your towel

Generally, good quality towel can last for more than 10 years, so I strongly recommend you to invest by purchase the highest quality one that you are able to afford it.

Tips for making your towel long lasting

1. You should launder it quite frequent and use only soft detergent

2. Do not use fabric softener as it has silicones, which effect to towel and make it virtually water repellent

3. During the first three or four washing, you should separate towels that has dark tone colour, because its colour will bleed and make other clothes be stained with the colour from towel. You can mix other clothes with towel when washing after 5 times washing it separately. However, if possible you should forever, washing them separately because it may also be stained by the colour of other clothes.

4. Do not bleach colored towel because it will destroy ability to absorb water of the towels.

5. If drying by hanging, do not twist towel, just shake it only once and hang it while still wet, this will help to maintain quality of terry loops.

6. Do not iron towels, as it will reduce absorbance



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