What does the towel do? Towels are indispensable daily necessities in our daily life. In fact, towels have many unexpected uses, such as dusting woolen coats with wet towels or relieving cervical pain. Next, I will introduce the function of towels.

What does the towel 1 1 do? Towels are invisible fire fighting equipment.

In the event of a fire accident, the towel not only has the functions of fire fighting, escape and self-help. When fleeing from the fire, cover your nose and mouth with a wet towel to stop the smoke; If the gas tank nozzle leaks and catches fire, use a wet towel and then close the valve to put out the fire. When there is no way to escape in the fire, block the gap of the door with a wet towel to prevent smoke from entering the room; Waving brightly colored towels at the window as a distress signal; Tie a rope to save yourself, and wrap your palm with a wet towel to prevent the rope from rubbing and scalding your palm.

2, hot towel hot compress has magical effect.

In Chinese medicine, it is said that "warming up is the general rule, which is neither painful nor itchy". Hot compress with a towel is actually the effect of heating. Hot compress can relieve asthenopia, dizziness, pain in spine and body joints. When hot compress, you should choose a clean towel, soak it in hot water at 40-50 degrees Celsius, wring it out and apply it to the corresponding part, so as not to feel burning when touching the skin. It is usually replaced every 5 minutes and used alternately. The time of each hot compress is 15-20 minutes, and it is applied 3-4 times a day.

3. Dust the wool coat with a wet towel.

First of all, put the woolen coat flat on the table, soak it in warm water of about 45 degrees Celsius with a thick towel, and don't wring it out too dry. Put it on the woolen coat and beat it repeatedly with your hands or thin sticks to make the dust on the woolen coat adsorb on the towel, then wash the towel and pat it on the coat. Repeat several times to remove the dust from the coat.

4, lazy towel slimming exercise

Doing towel exercises every day can effectively stretch and warm the body, which is quite beneficial to lose weight. A towel can help you shrink your stomach and thin your legs, and at the same time, it can achieve deep intervention, stimulate your stomach and intestines, and then increase your metabolic rate. You may wish to use a towel to help stretch your lower body before going to bed, which can not only shape the curve, but also make you sleep more sweetly.

5, old towels Diy creative household items

The towel was beautiful when it was just bought back, but it was abandoned because of local damage. We can find these old towels and splice them into a beautiful, soft and absorbent foot pad.

What does the towel do? What are the functions of towels?

1 rice cooker saves electricity

When cooking, covering a towel on the rice cooker can reduce the heat loss of the rice cooker and speed up the cooking speed of the rice cooker, thus saving electricity. But remember not to cover the air outlet at the back, or it will affect cooking. In addition, the cooked rice is usually in the state of heat preservation, so a towel can also be covered, which can reduce the heat loss of the rice cooker and is more conducive to heat preservation, and the air outlet can be covered during heat preservation.

The air-conditioned room is humidified and fragrant.

Hanging a wet towel in an air-conditioned room in summer can increase the humidity of the room, make the air-conditioned room less dry, and the towel can also absorb the odor in the room. If you drop a few drops of toilet water on the towel, the fragrance of toilet water can refresh the indoor air, and toilet water can also drive away mosquitoes. With it, you don't have to light mosquito-repellent incense in your room.

3 Make the fan cool.

Cover the fan with a wet towel, because there is moisture on the towel, and the blown air will be cooler. If you freeze the towel in the refrigerator, it will be cooler.

4 relieve eye fatigue

Hot compress with towel can promote blood circulation around eyes, relieve eye fatigue, partially relieve symptoms such as dry eye, and also have the function of improving eyesight and strengthening brain.

5. Relieve the symptoms of trauma

You can't apply hot compress during the stress period of sports injury. 2-3 days after injury, if there is no bleeding or swelling, hot towels can be used to relieve symptoms.

6 used as a fire extinguisher

When cooking with gas or liquefied gas, keep a soaked towel at hand. In case of emergency, such as leakage and fire of gas pipeline or liquefied gas nozzle, you can quickly put out the fire with a wet towel and close the valve as soon as possible to avoid fire.

7 put out the fire on the oil pan

When cooking, keep a wet towel at hand. If the oil pan is on fire, put the wet towel on the pan immediately, and the fire will go out immediately.

8 used as a gas mask

In places with heavy smoke, covering your mouth and nostrils with wet towels can be like a gas mask to prevent people from inhaling too much smoke.

Wet towels can also be used with gas masks. Because towels have the function of removing smoke. When taking refuge in the smoke of a fire, you can cover your mouth and nostrils with a towel and quickly rush out of the fire to escape. Experiments show that the more layers of towels are folded, the better the smoke removal effect is. However, in case of fire emergency, the smoke exhaust rate is about 6%. In the place with heavy smoke, because the smoke particles are larger and stick to the towel net, the smoke extraction rate increases with time. After 3 ~ 4 minutes, the smoke removal rate reached 1% with a 20% discount towel, and of course the ventilation resistance also increased. With towels with different humidity, the smoke removal rate is also different. The greater the water content, the greater the smoke removal rate.

9 used as a safety rope

Connect multiple towels as a safety rope to help you out of trouble.

1 Avoid scalding hands.

When handling high-temperature objects, such as liquefied gas cylinders, put wet towels on them to avoid burning your hands. When tying the rope to save yourself, the palm of your hand is wrapped with a wet towel, which will not burn your hand even if it rubs against the rope during sliding.

1 1 Removing the odor in the refrigerator

Fold a new cotton towel and put it somewhere on the upper shelf of the refrigerator. Soon, the smell in the refrigerator was eliminated. The reason is that the convection of air in the refrigerator makes the towel micropore absorb the odor in the refrigerator. Every once in a while, take out the towel, wash it with warm water, and dry it before using it.

12 Relieve the symptoms of spur

Find two clean towels and soak them in hot water for about half an hour at a time. It can effectively relieve the symptoms of bone spurs.

Treatment of presbyopia with 13

When washing your face in the morning, your eyes are slightly closed and your head is slightly tilted. Apply a semi-wet hot towel to your forehead and eyes. The towel is cold, and every time it is replaced 1 minute, it will be effective if it is persisted for a long time.

14 treatment of nasal congestion and runny nose

When you have a headache and hold your breath because of a stuffy nose, you might as well find a towel, soak it in hot water and press it on your nose for about 5 minutes. After 4~5 times of continuous hot compress, the nose can be ventilated. Hot steam sucked into nostrils can play the role of hot compress, thus shrinking nasal mucosa and stopping runny nose.

15 to stop nosebleeds

Soak the towel in cold water, apply it to the forehead and back neck, and soak it in cold water every 2~3 minutes, which can effectively stop bleeding.

Treatment of tracheitis with 16

From June to 165438+ 10 every year, before going to bed at night, make a pot of cold water. After the towel is soaked and wrung dry, rub it hard on the chest and back. When the towel is hot, put it in the basin, take it out and rub it until the cold water in the basin becomes hot. After two years of rubbing, tracheitis can be cured.

17 cleaning the ceiling

Find a clean towel, wet it and wrap it around the broom to clean the ceiling and high walls. When the towel is dirty, wash it and wring it out, and then wrap it around the broom until it is clean.