Super-absorbent towel for better air-drying and heat-styling / 1 towel

Breezy Tee’s T-Shirt Hair Towel is a super-soft, extra-absorbent, double-knit towel for hair that’s made from 100% organic cotton jersey, sourced from small producers in Europe. The wonderful husband and wife behind Breezy Tee, Brie and Joao, cut and sew each towel in their workshop just outside Lisbon: discover their story here.

Dara first wrote about this towel on Substack as her favorite air-drying tool during the warmer months; it's her favorite heat-styling tool, too, because it takes the perfect amount of excess water out of hair before you style, cutting styling time (and associated damage).

At the same time, its texture doesn’t do what typical terrycloth towels do. Terrycloth ruffles the hair cuticle, causing frizz and breakage; it also draws too much moisture from the hair, causing dryness. In contrast, this T-Shirt Hair Towel's soft, smooth texture is the best we’ve found in any hair towel for gentle, effective absorption of excess water on all hair textures, from straight to curly.

If you've used cotton hair towels before, you'll notice that this one is thicker than usual; its double knit makes for a more absorbent, stretchier towel, allowing Breezy Tee to use 100% cotton without adding any synthetic elastic materials.

And, importantly, it’s microplastic-free: those ubiquitous microfiber towels might be handy, but they can release microplastics into the water whenever you wash them, which then meander through our oceans and waterways for hundreds (or thousands) of years.

Brie and Joao made this creamy, light caramel color just for us at Ayla, a nod to the handmade tiles we have in our San Francisco location — and a neutral color that we thought would be friendly to most loads of laundry, since the towels are machine-washable and dryer-safe.