Reddit reviews Green Foster Product Natural Soft Linen Flax Bath Towel, Indigo

I bought a yard of linen fabric intending to hem the edge, producing my own Iinen bath towel for about $8.00. Great plan, except I can’t find it, and might have tossed it in the goodwill bag for some insanely stupid reason.

Just received this one https://www.amazon.com/Green-Foster-Product-Natural-Indigo/dp/B01NB9IQLG which looks decent out of the package. Currently its in the dryer. I’ve run it through the laundry once to get any shrinkage out of the way. We’ll see what happens. Initial impressions are that a full-size bath towel that doesn’t take any more room in a bag, or weigh more, than a shirt is a good thing. I’ll probably get a hand-towel or washcloth sized one for the times when I really want to travel light, but the bath towel sized one might be a good one for even ultralight packing, just because it doubles as a tablecloth or beach/picnic towel .


Edit:

Size: 27” x 57” (ca. 68cm x 144cm), 180g
For comparison, a cotton terry towel from the shelf at home: 27” x 48”, 485g.

Tested it out this morning. Different feel, as it doesn’t have the terry-looped texture of a traditional bath towel. Drying off with this towel requires more of a squeegee action than a rub-and-let-it-absorb. That said, it did its job.

I left it draped over the back of a wooden chair to dry. I came home four hours later to find a completely dry towel.
I rolled it up - it takes about as much space as one of my t-shirts (usually XL). I can even fold it and stow it in my toiletries cube.

Between the quick drying time and packability, I give it a two-thumbs-up. If it were about a foot longer, and I had a third hand, it’d double as a scarf and I’d give it three thumbs up.

I got this one off amazon. Not as pricey as Outliers.