I use them dry to dust too. They are good for all sorts of cleaning chores.

Start with just water. If you're happy with the results, that's fine. If not, use your favorite cleanser. I tend to use simple green or microban, depending on the situation. What's important is how you clean the cloths. Don't use fabric softener and don't put them in the dryer. After that, you're good. They clean great and last forever. You'll find yourself using them more than you thought you would. Love them in the shower as a washcloth. They're cheap enough. Just jump in.

I use them with diluted Simple Green as an everyday cleaner, windex, just water. Depends on what I'm doing. I wash separately in cold water, NO FABRIC SOFTENER, and just drape over a coat hanger to air dry.

They are great for cleaning eyeglasses and will not leave streaks the way regular cloth does. If you get fingerprints on your lenses, wipe them with microfiber cloth (no water needed), and the fingerprints will disappear without streaks.

I also use microfiber for dusting, again without water. I agree that they feel horrible to the skin, but your could wear cotton gloves if it bothers you.

Great question, I feel the same way about them, so have not mastered their use

They are great to clean your tablet or phone screens as well as TVs, mirrors etc.

I hand wipe my Brazilian cherry wood stairs with them. Just a squirt of Libman hardwood floor cleaner....takes me about 5 minutes to swoosh a staircase. Then I throw it into the laundry basket. My glass dinette table top, granite counters.....I start with water...

Are use my microfiber cloths on just about everything. I always wash them by themselves with liquid detergent on the sanitize cycle without any issues. I also drive mine on low heat with wool dryer balls and do not have any issues with the lint or static.

I can’t get past the feeling of them!

Important note: Like all fabrics, Microfiber cloths come in a variety of qualities -- and quality makes a difference. I have some microfiber cloths at home that're just so-so. In particular, they grab onto hair /every time I pick up a clean one, I have to pull hair off of it. BUT I have one at school that the custodians left behind, and that thing is seriously fabulous.

The best microfiber clothes are the ones from Norwex. You just need to use water with them. To wash them, just let them soak in boiling warer. never use any cleaner with them or put them in the dryer with fabric softner as you will ruin them.

Is Microfiber Bad for the Environment? Yes. Microfiber cloths release tiny fibers into the water supply during washing. Scientists are finding tiny microfibers in our oceans and lakes and trace these back to our home washing machines. Microfiber cloths are made of plastic fibers derived from crude oil or natural gas. These fragments may be tiny, but they cause harm to our ecosystem, as marine life swallows them, causing injury or death.

I'm not a fan of microfiber cloths either. But I did find one good use for them, to apply water based polycrylic to a piece I painted. I tried different brushes and rollers and either the finished streaked or bubbled. In a last ditch effort I tried a microfiber cloth and it went on as smooth as silk.

I keep one in the car to wipe the dash and windshield.

can't stand the way they catch on any bit of roughness on my hands either. Hand lotion or gloves can help with that.

liira55, I have some from Norwex, but am afraid to use them. LOL. I did use the one for glass and mirrors and was BLOWN away. The one here at work I used, was just one picked up at Target and it worked really well on the the glass doors with just water. But I had been waiting for the pack at Costco to go on sale to get a few bucks off and they finally did so I grabbed a pack.

There are the ones I picked up at Costco. $13.99 in the store on sale. I guess I'll bust them open and start trying them out :-)

https://www.costco.com/kirkland-signature-ultra-plush-microfiber-towel%2C-yellow%2C-16-in-x-16-in%2C-36-count.product.100356999.html

Like others have said, dry dusting, a bit of water......just barely damp to wipe down mirrors etc. To clean my glasses; I don't use them dry for fear of scratching so I use the lens solution spritz. TV, computer, laptop etc. Car windows, and wiping down the car after I wash it, or even after a rain or heavy dew. I keep one in my glove compartment all the time, good for a quick wipe if the inside windshield gets that film on it. The Costco ones are huge.

It is the only clothes I use. In kitchen as a kitchencoth, cleaning everywere, the car, garden furniture, pre wash windows,.

For glass and sethrough plastic I use a special window cloth that is a thinner flatveve.

A microfibercloth used right will sanatize a surfice witout cleaner, if you fold twice the you got 8 surfices to clean with, just use a clean side when one dirty. When I clean at home I prewet about 10 and I can clean my whole house, all surfices, molding, doors, cabinets......

I also have mops aswell, never reuse or rinse a dirty one, always a clean one, I use about 12 when mopping my house, big room 2, small 1 mop.

Wash in sanatize with prewash, tumble dry, but do read carelabel, i buy pro stuff that can withstand hi temps in both wash and dry.

If you cleaned something greasy you cant rinse it out, need washing, if just rinsed you will get a haze on the surfice cleaned

Better to return them. Microfibers have been found in our oceans, rivers, etc.. This is from the Plastic Pollution Coalition.org: Microfibers are too small to be filtered out by waste treatment plants, so they end up in our waterways and oceans, where they wreak havoc on marine animals and the environment. ... And one paper showed that microfibers are responsible for 85 percent of shoreline pollution across the globe.

Same issues with microfleece clothes. deadly for the environment

My experience with microfiber cloth is that some types are much worse about being grabby/ icky feeling. So I handle them before buying to see how bad they are about latching onto dead skin. I didn't use them for a long time because of that. Somehow an automotive one turned up here at the house--actually it had a Harley Davidson emblem on it. Wasn't the least bit grabby. That led me to feeling up all the microfiber cloths at the store. :-)

I mostly use them for dishcloths/ wiping down the counter, etc. They dry fast & don't end up smelling gacky before the day is out. If they get really grubby, I soak them in powdered dishwasher detergent before laundering them. Separately. Don't wash with other things because they will grab onto lint from other fabrics and lose some of their usefulness.

I find that they are great for cleaning windows. I just wet them and wring them out really well. I had no idea about their environmental impact though, that's disturbing to say the least.

I have a microfiber towel I use tow rap my wet head in out of the shower....my hair is almost dry by the time I towel try the rest of me.

I've never noticed anything 'icky', or whatever, about how the microfiber cloths I have feel. I got them in the auto care section of our local HEB. I love them as washcloths in the shower, they are great 'exfoliators'.

I also use them for cleaning glass and my stainless kitchen appliances.

Rusty

I bought a pack of them after a former co-worker bought a big bag full from Canadian Tire. I LOVE them! I prefer them over dish rags for washing dishes and counters. I use them for washing my floors and cleaning my bathroom. And they're terrific for washing windows: streak free! I've tossed out almost all of my old 'rags' in favour of microfiber cloths. My husband isn't happy about that, but he doesn't do as much housework as I do so........... ;)

I also hate the feeling of them in my hand. I use them for one purpose, washing/waxing the car and truck.

Aside from the plastic waste , I have never understood how these cloths are any better than nice cotton or linen dish towels. They feel awful in my hands too. For dusting I use cloth squares, all cotton, same for washing windows, glass, mirrors. For doing dishes by hand I use a plastic covered sponge- I should change that. No hand washing of cars for me, much too wasteful of water for my area.

Not really to do with the cloths and especially with all the plastic in clothing I stopped purchasing things that were labeled as containing microfibers when I discovered that in a fire they melt. Before then I was wanting microfiber sheets. My next door neighbor escaped her burning house by wrapping a sheet around her to enable her to go down her stairs. The firefighter explained about the melting when he asked what kind of sheet she had used.