What do you call that small square bath implement that you use to clean your face when bathing? I am from the south and it will forever remain as a wash rag in my mind. Likewise, around my house it is a dish rag...not a dish cloth.
I don't use the "wash rag" on my face or my body anymore...I use the bath sponges on my body and wash my face with gentle cleansers and my fingers. But when I did use the cloth thing...it was and still is to me a wash rag.
Wash rag here all my life was all I ever heard, same for mother's dish rags, when we had worn out towels we cut them up for wash rags, worked just fine!
We had wash rags, dish rags, and a ragbag when I was a kid too! Now I have washcloths, dishcloths, and paper towels. Progress?
Way to fancy here Mother always said if you go to eat and they have cloth napkins be sure to look at prices before you order! My big NY Eve dinner will have paper towels on every table
Wash rag, dish rag. Roommate uses those things Babs uses. An other thing she has her wash cloths, I have my wash rags; hers kept in the bathroom, mine in the hallway cabinet. Hers are bigger, fluffed; mine a little, thin wash rag. Progress.
That's the difference between Southern sayings and Northern sayings and/or the difference in Generation sayings.
We've always called it a face cloth, ever since I was a child, but when buying them in the store they're called a face flannel! Like @Babs Hunt , I use the net type sponges for showering... but when I want to exfoliate my skin, particularly my face I use a hot face cloth!!
In this list of a towel bale , you can see that stores are actually still calling it a Face Cloth... Face cloth: 33 x 33cm Hand towel: 50 x 100cm Bath towel: 69 x 140cm https://www.debenhams.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/prod_10701_10001_46402+S4T4001_-1
Dunno. The only real distinction given in our home are the ones I get scolded for if use them. Ya know, the one’s that hang there for however long and wait for someone else to use. I think they are called face towels and cloths but for for me they’re the “don’t touch cloths”. Now, that isn’t to say that I have never touched one because there are times when I’ll reach over to see if they really feel any different than the rags I’m used to using. Every time I do, I come up with the same verdict. Whilst they might be without blemish and match the shower curtains and toilet seat cover, they probably do the same job as the ones that I use and match somebody else’s toilet seat cover.