All In Your Bizz w/ Reka & Los

Your face shouldn't smell like someone else's towel.

Los & Reka Season 3 Episode 1

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Ever stepped out of a refreshing shower only to dry off with a towel that smells suspiciously... funky? You're not alone. 

We're tackling one of travel's most unspoken horrors: the dreaded sour hotel towel phenomenon. What starts as a pet peeve quickly spirals into a hilarious dissection of bathroom etiquette and questionable linen management. We share the mortifying experience of using someone's less-than-fresh towel, only to discover that the smell had transferred to our face and hair for days afterward. "I kept looking around and sniffing... and then I realized it was me!"

The conversation takes a practical turn as we explore what causes towels to develop that distinctive "dookie smell" - even after washing. Could it be towels left too long in the washing machine? Years of use without proper replacement? Or something more sinister? We offer insider advice for both travelers and hosts, from packing your own personal linens when staying elsewhere to maintaining dedicated guest towels that have never been used for washing cars or cleaning up spills.

Whether you've experienced this bathroom nightmare firsthand or just want to ensure you're never the host who inflicts "DTS" (Dookie Towel Syndrome) on unsuspecting guests, this episode delivers equal parts laughter and practical wisdom. Subscribe now and join the conversation about all those uncomfortable truths we normally keep behind the bathroom door!

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Speaker 1:

until our next podcast, here's something to make you laugh on the all in your biz with rika and lowe's show. A big thing for me, a pet peeve for me you know what's that you can go to a hotel and you know they refresh your towels and you know you can get a new towel every day, new washcloth and I hope people are using washcloths.

Speaker 2:

I hope they're using washcloths. Are they using their hands?

Speaker 1:

Or the bar of soap with all kind of body parts on it, but let's talk about these sour towels that are in the closet.

Speaker 2:

And they? You know you just finish washing. Maybe they kept it in the washing machine too long. No, I think that little dookie smell, I think, before you even use it.

Speaker 1:

No, I think these towels have been around for a few years and I think when people wash them they still smell sour when they come out the washer, they still smell like booty.

Speaker 2:

And then, when you dry them.

Speaker 1:

It's heating up the funk. I don't know what it is, but I used a sour towel at somebody's house and my face was stank your face for two days, you know what?

Speaker 2:

because you do wash with that towel like it got like an after scent you know like, if you smell like dookie I don't.

Speaker 1:

I kept like looking around and sniffing and I'm like, and I was smelling my hair and I'm like, what is that smell? And then I had to like face, my face, and then I guess like my, hair it was just sour. I had to just just get in the shower and just wash my hair, wash my face, but I was so disappointed wait a minute.

Speaker 2:

Wait a minute now. Did you tell the person I asked? Because then people gonna think that is you smelling like I know smelling sour, like a baby's neck with milk under the you know what I said, hey?

Speaker 1:

hey, once I once I kind of realized after the second day like, hey, where do you want me to put this towel?

Speaker 2:

In the trash.

Speaker 1:

I said do you want me to? It kind of smells sour. Should I toss it? No, just throw it in the washer. I was like you sure. You need to recycle that towel If you can smell the stink on the towel dry before you put water to it.

Speaker 2:

When you put some water on it, it's going to just be magnified.

Speaker 1:

You put water and funk to it and skin Like, yeah, water funk, yeah. So now I have a habit of traveling, I try to remember with my own towel and washcloth, so that's where you get that from.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, I had a bad experience you got like dookie towel syndrome yeah okay, so I guess, that's why dts you know what to so prevent this? Just get you some nice new towels when people come over.

Speaker 1:

Yeah have some guest towels. I do that I have some new guest towels that only my guests can use. I'm not washing the car with them, washing the dog with them, cleaning up spills. Yeah, I have some towels just for my guests, so they won't have DTS.

Speaker 2:

No, so they won't have the Dookie smell.

Speaker 1:

The Dookie sour face, the sour face.