Swedish Dishcloths for Kitchen Grey 10 Pack Reusable Compostable Kitchen Cloth Made in Sweden Cellulose Sponge Swedish Dish Cloths for Washing Dishes Reusable Paper Towels Washable

Works so well. Saves us $!

I was looking for a new Swedish dishcloth that was 100% compostable. Many of the options on Amazon are not and contain plastics. Was excited when I found this brand and even more excited when it arrived…with a hand written note from the owner of the company. So sweet! I feel good supporting this company and happy that I can help the earth by using less paper towels. No weird smell once opened. These are a game changer for cleaning the kitchen counters and tables! One dishcloth lasts me forever and can be washed in the dishwasher!

These work amazing! Use as paper towels, great for cleaning, then can go in the wash to reuse many times. Absolutely love them and such a great way to save environment and save $ . Use different colors for different uses, Bathroom cleaning, kitchen and whatever. These are strong and absorbent and feel good about saving trees.

I have used Swedish dishcloths for a while now. I love the durability and functionality of them. I wash them with my laundry and lay flat to dry. I found that drying them causes them to breakdown faster.

So far I am really enjoying these sponge cloths....My dish cloths would smell real bad after just one day of light use. These DO NOT. I am hoping they wash and dry well so that I can get multiple months of use out of them

We switched to these rags a couple of years ago and won’t go back. We keep them in our kitchen and use them to clean everything. They are a nice size and also easy to clean. The only drawback I’ve seen is that they get stinky if you don’t wring them out when they are wet, which isn’t a surprise. Our last ones lasted about 2 years before they started to have holes and fall apart.

First, this is called a dishcloth. It is similar to a dishcloth in absolutely no way. A dishcloth is flexible; this is either stiff like cardboard when dry or soggy and floppy. A dishcloth is large; this is a little rectangle, about half the size of a sheet of letter paper. A dishcloth is absorbent; this can absorb some water-based liquids and then will spread the rest around; it is a weak performer at absorbing oil-based and other spills. A dishcloth lasts for years; this supposedly lasts through multiple washings but not for decades like my good dishcloths. A really great cloth for cleaning up messes, if you want to be kinder to the planet than the paper towel hog, is called a rag. When I grew up, we used old clothes, towels and linens that could no longer be mended. These were laundered separately and reused. We didnt import sponges from Europe and call them cloth. Second, this does not replace rags or paper towels for spills. Imagine the cat tips over a fishy bowl of food. You reach for one of these hard little rectangles. It was not evident to me until after purchase that these cannot be used as is, like a dishcloth would be. You have to go to the sink and wet it, then wring it out, while the spill is dribbling from the counter to the floor, then the best you can achieve is to push the mess around a bit. The rectangle isnt big enough to scoop up anything and isnt absorbent enough to clear away the mess. Dont get me wrong, I am big on saving paper. I use dishcloths (REAL ones) for absorbing clean water, like drying dishes. I have a separate one for drying hands while cooking. I have a two-stage sponge plan for messes, one to get the majority of the mess and the second to clean up after the first. I do have paper towels and use those multiple times. If they are merely wet, say from cleaning a mirror, I let them dry and use them again for progressively dirty jobs, until they are thrown away. If something is spreading across the counter and dribbling and needs to be picked up quickly, good luck using one of these Swedish dishcloths. This brings me to a gripe about squandering the equity in the reputation of Sweden and, in particular, Swedish dishcloths. I happen to have studied Swedish looms and weaving. Swedish housewives were known to produce heirloom quality woven household items for their trousseau. To me the words Swedish in the name of the product and dishcloth are akin to Swiss watch. The best. So, these are not dishcloths and surely not Swedish dishcloths. The instructions say to wash these in the dishwasher or washing machine. Can you imagine that a dishwasher will really clean a stinky mess out of a sponge (which is what these really are, next point)? More likely, it will absorb oily and smelly substances from the dishes and spread them around the next time you use one of these to try to clean up. About sponges, that is what this is, exactly. You can get these in the grocery store for a tiny fraction of the rip-off cost of these. They are also made of wood pulp but do not have the pretentious and oh-so-precious claims of the pure Swedish woods aka tree farms. I was stupid, really stupid. I saw CNN touting these for a couple of months and finally decided to investigate them. They made it sound like anyone stupid enough to buy paper towels was destroying the environment instead of being really enlightened and, um, Scandinavian ... blue eyes, blonde hair, pure Aryans, definitely no Asians, whom we have characterized racially as enemies and whom bigots suggest when they boast that something is made in America. With such an unbelievably high price, I assumed they must be worth it, so I took the bait, not realizing Id be getting something identical to the flat sponges I got from the grocery store and rarely use. I really hate the misleading hype, so am suspicious about everything written on the package. A card with a font made to look like handwriting thanked me for supporting a small family business. Am I supposed to picture these blonde, blue-eyed, pure-at-heart Swedes making dishcloths in the family room by the fireside? Okay, a factory that is family owned. A lot of big businesses are small family owned. Small is the adjective modifying family, not business. Nothing like the small family businesses youd find on Etsy, for example, the unemployed husband in the basement crafting clothes hooks out of tree branches, the wife upstairs handling business accounts and correspondence from the kitchen table, the home-schooled children handling the packing and shipping. I happen to have wonderful dishcloths that I love using, some great sponges, rags like old T-shirts, and, yes, paper towels that I ration out only when absolutely prudent. What I dont have is this package of outrageously overpriced little cardboard sponges. Returned.

I have decided to make this brand my only Swedish Dishcloths Brand that I will purchase and use. I am so impressed with the cost, the amount of dishcloths we are given, the long lasting power, the bright colors, and it meets my standards! I recommend these Swedish Dishcloths... WOW.....

These dishcloths are SO thick and absorbent! Cleans up spills quick and with ease. No need to use multiple paper towels. They are slightly stiff when they are dry and hold shape really well. They dont stink if you keep them balled up or have left them with some dish soap. Great for washing dishes or cleaning countertops.

I was kind of skeptical about them when I took them out of the package and realized how stiff they were, but holy crap, these things are awesome. I dropped a pint of half and half today, spilling it everywhere, and was able to clean up the entire mess with ONE dishcloth. It would have taken at least 10 paper towels, but I got almost the entire spill in one pass when soaking up the liquid, and then rinsed it to wash everything off. I sniffed it when I was done to see if it smelled like half and half and it smells like absolutely nothing at all. All you have to do is squeeze it out and lay it flat and it drys crazy fast. I’ve been throwing mine in the dishwasher whenever I use it, and it cleans it right up. Only issue is once it comes out of the dishwasher it takes a long time to dry since it’s so soaked, but with normal spills and rinsing it dries back out crazy fast. Since it’s stiff, you do have to use it a little differently than a paper towel to get it started. I always just lay it in the worst of the spill and press it down till it soaks up enough liquid to get more flexible, but it’s just insane to me how much liquid this thing can hold. I also like to use it to “scrub” things that require gentle scrubbing, like the glass stove top. I highly recommend them for saving money on paper towels and just for how cool it is to watch them absorb like black magic levels of liquid.