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These Towels Are So Absorbent People Call Them 'Thirsty' — And You'll Never Guess Where They're From

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A HuffPost shopping piece highlights a six-piece cotton towel set from Drew Barrymore's Beautiful line at Walmart, priced under $30 and rated 4.7 stars across more than 1,200 reviews. Shoppers quoted in the piece praise the thickness, size, and quick-drying quality, with one reviewer coining the towels as 'thirsty.'

The set includes washcloths, hand towels, and bath towels in six colors, though only navy and charcoal are currently in stock.

The full dispatch is available from the source below.

✒ FROM THE EDITORIAL DESK
Towels that soak up water get called thirsty and a celebrity's name gets attached, and somehow this counts as news you can shop. It is a fine towel, probably, but the discovery that cotton absorbs liquid is not exactly breaking anything. The real trick here is getting people to read an ad and call it a recommendation.
Source: Read the original at HuffPost → Scored: Matt's Blues · Kevin MacLeod · CC BY 4.0
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