Welcome to CoolingTowels.com

Cooling towels are pieces of fabric that were once targeted towards athletes to lower their body temperatures in the hopes of improving their performance. These up and coming accessories have recently seen a rise in popularity outside sports and have moved to cater to more mainstream users. Today, almost anyone can find a use for a cooling towel, especially during summer where the elevated temperatures may cause health-related problems for some people.

Cooling towels can address problems related to temperature regulation. Putting these on particularly warm spots on your body can effectively bring down the skin temperature by up to 30 degrees thus relieving any discomfort and pain you may feel from that area. Cooling the skin also improves performance as muscles recover faster as prolonged high temperatures can negatively affect your body. Cooling towels can also remove fatigue from affected body parts.

Cooling towels can be used by virtually anybody who wants an easy and convenient way of cooling themselves down. However, cooling towels are particularly effective for those doing moderately demanding activities such as manual laborers, people with medical conditions limiting their capacity to work and impacting their quality of life such as heat exhaustion.

People with sleeping disorders like insomnia can greatly benefit from using cooling towels. Recent studies have also shown that lowering your body temperature can help improve sleep quality. For most people, heat interferes with sleep more than cold. Placing a cooling towel on your forehead, under your armpits or even on your belly can help make sure that your body stays at a comfortable temperature for better, longer periods of sleep.

In short, yes. Cooling towels really do work. Ever wondered why damp or wet towels feel colder when you touch them? This is caused by a process called evaporative cooling. This natural process happens everyday. Evaporative cooling is a process where ambient temperatures are brought down as water evaporates. As the water evaporates, it naturally pulls heat away from its surroundings to convert liquid water into vapor. This is because matter needs energy to change from one phase to another. The liquid water gets this energy from the surrounding surface. This energy change manifests itself as a temperature change and for this case, the lowering of the temperature of the surrounding surface. Pretty neat right? This is a naturally occurring and spontaneous process so it will work regardless of the surrounding air temperature.

Cooling towels utilize the principle of evaporative cooling to bring down the temperature of the surface it’s in contact with. Ordinary rags or towels also utilize this principle but they exchange heat very slowly. They can provide temporary, albeit limited, cooling relief but the heat exchange is so inefficient that the cooling effect will last less than 30 minutes before you have to soak the towel again.

Because of how cooling towels are manufactured, they hold much more water and let it escape faster into the surrounding air. Both of these properties allow cooling towels to stay cooler for longer. Most brands claim that their towels stay cool for up to 3 hours but a few things can affect this time such as the temperature of the water you soaked the towel with or the temperature where the towel will be placed. Regardless, expect them to stay cool around the claimed time, give or take a few minutes.

Making cooling towels this effective was no easy task, however. Major breakthroughs in material science and manufacturing technologies are what allowed cooling towels to become as efficient as they are.

All cooling towel product listings have some sort of a how-to guide on how to use them. We’ve compiled the most common instructions and have compiled them to an easy to follow “one size fits all” guide for you.
• Soak or run your cooling towel under running tap water for around 30 seconds, tap water should be cold enough for general purposes but you can use refrigerated water for heavy duty uses.
• Wring the towel out until it’s damn but not wet to the touch. Snapping the towel a few times doesn’t seem to do much in terms of cooling (except for making you look cool while you do it).
• Place the towel on the intended area. If the towel starts to warm up, repeat the previous 2 steps.
These are the only necessary steps to help you maximize your cooling towel experience. Use these steps so you can get the most out of your cooling towel.

Cleaning a cooling towel is a simple process. All you need is warm water and some detergent. The detergent should be mild, and the cooling towel can be hand-washed or machine-washed. However, you should never clean your cooling towel in a dryer. The drier might make your towel too dry making it brittle causing it to become susceptible to chipping and breaking. Here’s a bulleted list so you can remember things easier.

• Get some warm water in a bowl
• Pour some mild detergent into the water
• Soak your cooling towel in the water for at least five minutes
• Wash gently to rub off any unloosened stains
• If some stains aren’t removed by this point, add a little bleach
• If you have a machine washer, you can place the cooling towel in it for proper washing

Storing your cooling towels is pretty simple. Some cooling towels dry soft while some dry hard. That is because of the materials they are made of. Some are made of PVA which makes them as hard as cardboard paper when dry. When not in use, such cooling towels should be folded and stored in a bag. Experts advise that cooling towels should be stored damp in their packages for a longer productlife. The truth is, whatever way you deem fit to store your cooling towel, anything will work. Cooling towels are very low maintenance and so long as you store them reasonably, they will last you many years.