5. Your Pillowcase
Who doesn’t love the feeling you have when you finally get the chance to lie down in your bed after a long day? Well, this feeling would disappear if you knew how many bacteria are living on your pillowcase. But for your own good, you may want to know this piece of information.
A 2016 study conducted by Amerisleep found that a one-week-old pillowcase contains an average of 3 million colony-forming units of germs per square inch. For reference, that’s 17,000 times more germs than what you’d find on your toilet seat. Don’t change your pillowcase for three weeks, and you could be dealing with as many as 8 million. Now that’s disgusting!
6. Your Kitchen Towels
When experts from the University of Mauritius tested 100 kitchen towels after one month of use, they discovered that nearly half of them were teeming with some sort of bacteria. But it gets worse: The towels taken from bigger households are more likely to contain more germs than those taken from small households with no children. In other words, make sure you change your kitchen towels once a week!
