Bathroom towels can be versatile (sarong, blanket, giant sponge) but it’s a dark day when they sprout cress and look like they’ve just escaped the Eden Project. Yet a recent survey found that 5 per cent of men felt it was fine to wash their towels just once a year, compared to just 1 per cent of women. And a sizeable 11 per cent of all respondents weren’t concerned in the least by grubby-towelling hygiene issues – despite this being the only material that comes closer to your intimate anatomy th