Thanks, @KKC. Good to know.
I depends on what kind of guest you get. I do a high volume turnover but people here are also largely on road trips and many single travelers. If I were doing bachelorette parties in Nashville I’d be buying them in bulk. 
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yes, i never use them myself, but I do offer them. some people use them some dont.
As far as makeup goes I bought makeup remover cloth from amazon. they are soft, gray and work wonders.
Interesting. And no one has tried flushing them, right?
We provide poufs in one of our apartments. That apartment has only a shower and is a little studio and it was an easy way to add an ‘extra’. Sometimes, I will leave poufs in the bigger apartments for certain groups, e.g. girl’s weekend on a pricey summer weekend, to add extra value.
I buy them at TJ Maxx/those kinds of places or at Trader Joe’s. At TJ Maxx, I can get fancy green tea, blah, blah or something for a good deal. Trader’s Joe’s has their own brand which is quite good and what I use myself. On occasion, I’ve picked up some at a drugstore on sale. They don’t go very fast, so it’s not a big investment. Makes my heart sing when the bath trash is full of them and my towels are still white.
I also give colored wash cloths. Some people prefer those. It covers my bases.
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When I can find them cheap with tags on them or individually wrapped I also leave them in a drawer. And they do get used. I’d like to sanitize and re-use them but don’t know how people would react. I have a resusable shower cap that I sanitize, why can’t I do the same with a pouf?
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I only have 2 signs/notes posted in my units. One of them is a cute but tiny little card hanging by a colorful thread next to toilet. It says ‘please read’ on one side and on the other it says to please not flush anything other than toilet paper, even if it says it’s flushable, because it’s an old house. So far so good. I would probably leave that note even without the makeup wipes because people bring all kinds of stuff like that anyways.
@kkc I get mine on amazon. They end up being less than a dollar a piece. You do have to read the description to make sure they have tags or are individually wrapped - I have that same concern too. Most of my guests who use them (a lot don’t) seem to take them with them. I hadn’t thought about sanitizing the ones left behind that got used. I would imagine a vinegar wash would sanitize them but don’t know if people would use them if they had been obviously used. I did end up with one box of them that didn’t have individual tags or individually wrapped and have still put them out for some folks and they still get used (my regulars and also ‘dudes’ don’t seem to mind as much (sorry dudes. but I love that you dig the shower pouf!)
It’s one of those mind game questions. People use washcloths, towels and sheets that have been washed but would draw a line at poufs? And a pouf washed here (dishwasher or a bleach solution) would probably be cleaner than one straight out of a package from China.
I guess I can provide them and people can use or not. I haven’t had any in several months and my ratings haven’t suffered. I did think it was interesting that I put an individually wrapped shower cap in there that I picked up at a hotel in my recent travels. I didn’t even make it to the end of the first week. It was apparently taken as I didn’t see it in the trash.
I see plenty of microfiber makeup wipes on Amazon that say they are machine-washable. They come in various sizes. Some come with a little laundry bag. I’m sure that any open-weave zip bag would do, as long as it’s synthetic. The only reason to use a bag for laundry, as far as I can tell, is to keep track of the wipes if they happen to be small—to prevent them from going down the drain.
We use microfiber cloths for dusting and cleaning windows. They’re lint-free and great.
Here’s what we’ve learned about washing microfiber cloths:
Wash microfiber items only with other 100% synthetic items. Our dust/cleaning cloths get fluffed up with cotton fibers if they’re washed with cotton. Then they are no longer lint free. DO NOT DRY THEM. They lose their original shape and some of their effectiveness if they’re dried in the dryer.
I see plenty of all-black and all-gray microfiber makeup cloths. Some have the word “Makeup” embroidered on them.
Might be worth a try.
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I do provide wascloths although I don’t use them myself.
I have a bunch of stuff in the apartments like that. Perhaps the most egregious thing I initially forgot was a potato masher. My husband asked me, “how could you forget a potato masher?”. And I said, “cause, ewwwww” but then put one in each kitchen 
I provide black makeup washcloths and regular washcloths.
Funny story. I had a guest call us at 5:25 AM stating there was not ONE washcloth in the house and needed some ASAP. We told her there were at least 36 regular ones and 12 makeup ones. She insisted there were no regular ones. So my property manager who lives next store told her to give her 10 minutes and she would bring over more rather than argue the point. She arrived and the woman told her she needed washcloths NOT hand towels, so my manager went to the bathroom and showed her the hand towels and washcloths while she explained they were luxury hotel towel sets and bigger than standard ones. Boy, did the guest feel like a fool.
Our regular washcloths, hand towels and bath towels:
Our makeup towels (I unfortunately paid full price they are half off now):
Now that marking things up with Sharpie is considered professional and acceptable, I decided to make up some make up towels. The color is better in person. My LED lights make everything look more orange.
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You could just write “full size bath towel” on there and save a load of money on towels.
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Oh, this is such an interesting discussion! I learn something new every day! It never would have occurred to me that people don’t use washcloths, and I wondered why one wasn’t provided at an Airbnb where I stayed, recently (in the U.S., but the hostess was not originally from the U.S.). I provide multiple washcloths, as many as anyone could ever need, based on my own personal preference. I buy them in bulk! I use white, but also provide grey in a small basket for makeup removal, recently replacing the expensive, environmentally & plumbingly disastrous packs of disposable wipes.
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I would also like to note that a washcloth is an item that I most frequently find left behind in with the linens, so people are travelling with them. I’ve never done that because I assume there will always be one available, but I guess I’ll have to change that policy, now. I have a nice, colorful collection in my rag bag, now. I’m in the U.S.
My pet peeve. Women need washcloths. Men, less so. To be clear, to take a shower without a hand held shower attachment, a washcloth is needed to wash and rinse easily between our legs. Paying $550 a night for a place with no washcloths!? Not ok.
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Old topic, completely washed out and many participants no longer active.
Closed.
JF
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