Sometimes when you’re a professional, the tools used by regular folks just won’t do. Formula One racers have those games console-looking steering wheels; award-winning photographers depend on more than the lens on their smartphone ; and housekeepers, maids, cleaners, janitors, and other professional tidier-uppers use microfiber cloths. The rest of this article is behind a paywall. Please sign in or subscribe to access the full content.

But what actually are these special towels, and why are they so useful for cleaning? Well, it’s surprisingly technical – so here’s what’s going on.

What is a microfiber cloth?

Technically, a “microfiber” is simply a fiber finer than one denier, with a diameter of less than 10 micrometers. For comparison, that’s somewhere in between the width of a singl

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