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How often you should laundry bath towels

Grace Raver
2016-06-04T12:23:00Z
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You might be surprised to learn that the item you use daily to clean yourself is actually pretty gross. Here's how gross your bathroom towel really is and how often you should be washing it. 

Produced by Grace Raver. Original reporting by Julia Calderone.

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