Microfiber Enviro Cloth

One of the most basic products that Norwex offers is the Microfiber Enviro cloth.  The website's description of the product is as follows:

This multipurpose microfiber Enviro Cloth cleans washable surfaces. Use it dry for dusting, damp for cleaning walls, tiles, bathtubs, counters, metal surfaces, car interiors, etc. Between laundering simply rinse, wring out and hang to dry. Available in four colors allowing you to color-code for different purposes or rooms.

This doesn't seem particularly exciting so I'll just throw out some things I learned about these handy little cloths tonight:

In order to be classified as a microfiber a fiber has to be 1/6 the width of a hair.  The microfiber used in Norwex cloths is guaranteed to be 1/100 the width of a hair.  So the fibers are microscopic and incredibly strong.  Woven in with the microfiber to create the cloths is silver.  Silver acts as a natural anti-microbial within the towel to keep germs, bacteria and other gross contaminants from contaminating anything else the cloth touches.

To use the enviro cloth damp, you simple get it wet and wring it out completely then clean, wipe, dust as usual.  It's a great dry dust cloth as well since the microfiber and silver trap dust particles within the cloth instead of kicking it up like other dusters.

If you don't use Norwex laundry detergent (yet), instead of laundering the cloths in detergents with fillers that can gunk up the towel you simply boil the cloth for about 10 minutes.  My mom gave me one of her enviro cloths last week after the meeting and I've been absolutely loving how it works but it was starting to smell a little funky, like a regular old dish towel.  When I got home tonight I boiled it and it's back to working wonders and the smell is totally gone!

The enviro cloth is available in 4 different colors to you can color code the rooms in your home if desired.  But it's not actually necessary!  You could clean your kitchen AND bathroom with the same towel and not have to worry about cross contamination!  It's hard to believe but the "raw chicken demo" could make anyone a believer.  You can completely clean a surface contaminated with raw chicken with just a damp enviro cloth- no soaps, chemicals or cleansers at all!  True story.

So, the description is alright, but it doesn't really get down to the nitty gritty facts about the amazing little tool that is the Enviro Cloth.