The Norwex Kitchen Cloth has a little sidekick, the Norwex Kitchen Towel… you know, the kind you dry your dishes with?
Well, I’ll be upfront. It’s not awesome at drying dishes.
A strange quality for a kitchen towel, I admit. I don’t like drying my dishes with it, because it just moves the wetness around. However, I do LOVE it as a kitchen hand towel. We always have one hanging on the stove handle for drying hands in the kitchen. However, I have customers who just LOVE this towel for drying dishes too! One customer said that she likes it because it “polishes the dishes dry, kind of like the Window Cloth polishes a window dry.” She also LOVES that you can color coordinate with her Kitchen Cloths. That’s very important to her! If you feel like this isn’t drying your dishes quite like you like, I recommend that you try the EnviroTowel; that’s what we use in our home.
The quality I like best about the Norwex Kitchen Towel is that it works well for drying hands. It’s my official kitchen hand towel. It’s redemption comes in the BacLock® feature – BacLock is an antimicrobial agent solely intended to protect and self-clean the cloth by inhibiting growth of odor-causing bacteria, mold and mildew. That means that it doesn’t get smelly as quickly as the ‘average’ towel. And I have to admit, being made of microfiber, it does dry quicker than the average towel too.
So I have 2 different ratings for this little towel, based on 2 different jobs; 1) drying dishes, and 2) drying hands.
- Because we use this towel to dry our hands in the kitchen, and it does a great job of that, I give the Norwex Kitchen Towel 5 stars for that purpose. Maybe it should be renamed the Norwex Kitchen Hand Towel.
- Since I never use the Norwex Kitchen Towel to dry dishes with, which is it’s job, it’s purpose, it receives a two star rating.
What do you think about the Norwex Kitchen Towel? Like it? Love it? Hate it? We’d love to hear from you!
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I buy the Norwex kitchen towels because of the BacLock, and because I REALLY love the colors. I don’t use them to dry dishes (I use a dishwasher or air dry); I use these as hand towels 99.999% of the time. My only dislike is they don’t weather being laundered as much as I’d like. I just ordered new towels and will continue to wash them using Norwex detergent as always, but on a delicate cycle. My washer has an agitator and is rough on these towels. I’d still give these towels 5 stars because agitators can be tough on any towel. I hope using a delicate cycle helps.
I haven’t heard that about an agitator being tough on that, but I’ll keep that in mind. Thanks for your comment!
I love the Norwex dish towel for drying dishes AND hands. Hopefully I’ll feel the same after using it for more than a few months.
I’m will the perplexed group here and say I absolutely love the kitchen cloth and towels. I have multiple sets and can use the same one for weeks really without any smell or staining. I hand wash mine in Norwex detergent,and hang dry. Won’t use anything else
That’s fantastic! I do love it as a hand towel, we just don’t use it for drying dishes. Thanks for stopping by!
I stumbled across this post because I’ve become disenchanted with the towels as well. They just move the water around. I love the idea of anti-bac, but I have to work too hard to get to “dry”. I bought a new one thinking maybe they had “expired” in their effectiveness. That wasn’t the problem. Sorry, Norwex! I love all the other products though, so I’ll just live with it.
I love the kitchen towel, and the cloth as well, these two were my first norwex products to be used when I got my safe haven package, It’s made my kitchen cleaning quick and easy. Just ordered more. ..and it’s cheaper than the enviro cloth which I love just the same. I’ve used the cloth for a week and no smells yet and towel too. I do wash it with little dish soup at least daily so maybe that helped. But l love love love it with its ridges and design, everything gets cleaned including the ss frig doors without any streaks. I do my own thing with it where I use the cloth wet than use the towel to dry quickly not dishes but any other surface.
I don’t like the towel at ALL, and I LOVE Norwex. If I try to use the same towel for more than 1 day, it gets stinky. It doesn’t dry dishes better than any other towel I have. After one wash/dry my three towels were falling apart on the edges. Not impressed.
I agree with this review and I sell Norwex. When the towel was brand new it was absorbent, but after a few washes (in the Norwex laundry detergent and with dryer balls instead of dryer sheets/fabric softener), I don’t find them to absorb hardly at all.
But, I love them for drying my hands, too! I’m still not sure why it’s no longer absorbent, but I love it for drying my hands, so I keep them around! 🙂
After you wash the towel in Norwex detergent, try putting it through the wash again without any detergent at all, just hot water. My Norwex kitchen cloth, which I love, was getting stiff and less absorbent, and then I read from another consultant what she did…and it worked! Apparently, what happens over time is that too much detergent gets left in the cloths. You really don’t need a whole lot of detergent and can often use less the recommended amount on the package. Because of the detergent build up, it hardens the cloths. If it doesn’t work after one cycle with just water, try another cycle until it comes out soft.
I have to disagree with the review as well.
I’m very new to Norwex, I ordered the dishtowel and cloth set as well as the envirocloth. I’ve used the envirocloth once but I use the dish cloth to wipe up after my kids and it does AMAZING. The dish towel is able to dry all of my dishes vs my previous cotton dish towel which would be soaked halfway through.
Maybe since the original review was posted there have been changes to the product? (I received mine in July 2014.) Or maybe someone used it to wipe up something that shouldn’t touch it? The dish towel has the antibac or whatever so no soap or anything should touch it, perhaps that happened and is why its not absorbing but rather pushing around?
Wow, I am so surprised by this review that I’m moved to comment, even though I just surfed in from google. I LOVE the Norwex kitchen towel – I find them so absorbent, the best tea towel (as we call it), I’ve ever used. It actually dries the dishes, even glasses and plastics, unlike the average tea towel you buy. I wouldn’t be without it!
I don’t know what this persons problem is, but I LOVE the Norwex dish towels. They are absorbent and big enough. As a matter of fact, I have three of them. I plan on buying more and giving them out for Christmas presents. I give them a 5 Star rating.
I actually happen to agree with Crystal on this review… I don’t really love the Norwex Kitchen Towels either, except for as a hand towel. I really wanted to love it, but like she mentions, the ones I have don’t absorb the water from the dishes, just moves it around. I’m really happy to hear that you love them though, and I know there are many more like you because they are a hot selling item. Maybe I need to order a few more and see if they’ve worked out some of the “non-absorbent” kinks.
I agree. I think they are very absorbent and use them to dry my dishes all the time. They are really good for absorbing the water on the top of my mugs before I take them out of the dishwasher.
I own the Kitchen Towel & Kitchen cloth. I don’t remember who originally told me this, but the reason I bought the cloth was because the ridges in the cloth make it great for picking up crumbs, etc. in the kitchen. I dont’ think it works *quite* as well as the enviro cloth, but it’s cheaper 🙂 I don’t use it to wash dishes (sometimes I will use it to pre-rinse something gross before putting said dish in the dishwasher) and I only use the towel to dry my hands. For these reasons, I’m very happy with them 🙂 I haven’t tried the “Dish Cloth” (the white mesh one) or the All-purpose kitchen cloth yet, but I do have a party coming up… 🙂