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Sometimes, a company contacts you for a product review, and you’re like, “What could I possibly use…?” When Karma Kiss wanted to set me up with their blog review and affiliate program – yes, that means I get commission from the links below – I was disappointed that the three items I said I’d like to review were not available for review. I got a list of reviewable items to choose from, and I said, “What the heck? Why not a bathmat?”
Why not, indeed!
If your family is like mine, you use some form of towel as a bathmat, something that gets wadded up on the bathroom floor after baths and showers and never really quite dries. So it stinks. And even after washing it, it still stinks.
Enter: My New Favorite Cork Bathmat
Cork, you say? Yes. Cork. The Thirsty Cork Floor Mat has changed the way I look at bath mats forever. (Never letting a nasty, wet towel get wadded up on the floor again!)
The picture above is from when it first arrived and I hadn’t removed it from the packaging. The only real disappointment I’ve had with this is that the stickers that read “Thirsty Cork Floor Mat” are not stuck to the plastic wrap, but to the bath mat itself. No matter how hard I’ve tried, I still have about a square inch of adhesive that hasn’t come off after a few weeks of use. The blue foot prints are part of the bath mat, so that’s just fun.
How Thirsty Is This Bath Mat?
We’ve really put this thing to the test in our house. TJ takes his bath around 7:00 pm each night, and Tom and I generally shower either at 8:00 after he goes to bed or around 11:30 right before we go to bed. We all bathe in the same bathroom, so the cork has to soak up a lot of water.
Taking a shower an hour after TJ’s bath does not allow the cork enough time to dry thoroughly, but 3-4 hours usually gets it dry all the way through. The exception is if we forget to lean it up against the tub instead of leaving it flat on the floor. If left flat, the top will be dry, but the underside will still have wet spots.
For most people, this isn’t an issue. But since we shower together – because of my health issues, I need a spotter – we have two people who need a dry bath mat at about the same time. I don’t like stepping in wet footprints when I get out. The first night we used the bath mat, it had been an 8:00 shower, and water actually ran off the top of the cork because it couldn’t absorb any more after dealing with three dripping people in rapid succession.
But given time to dry between uses, this thing is great at sucking up water. It’s also naturally antibacterial, which means it’s not going to breed the same sort of gross germs a towel would.
Enter to Win a Thirsty Cork Floor Mat
Would you like to win one of these cool bath mats from Karma Kiss? I thought you would. You have until 11:59pm on Tuesday, June 11/midnight Wednesday, June 12 to enter via the Rafflecopter widget below.
Thanks to Karma Kiss for sponsoring this review and giveaway!
That’s me: Christina Gleason. I’m a writer, editor, and disability advocate. I'm a multiply disabled autistic lady doing my best in this world built for abled people. I’m a geek for grammar, fantasy, and casual gaming. I hate vegetables. I cannot reliably speak, so I’ll happily conduct business over email or messaging instead.
In the bathroom, a bath mat would be wonderful. I’d love to try out this Cork Mat!
Bath mat. We use towels right now. 🙁
I would like a new towel rack.
it’s not really little, but radiant heat flooring in the bathroom is my DREAM 🙂 thanks for the chance!
My bathroom could use some organization, but a new cork bathmat would improve it quite a bit!
A magazine holder! Stacking them on the floor isn’t working out too well!
hmmm. floors! we still have plywood! 🙂
We don’t have room to hang a towel bar. A stand for hanging towels would be great.
we use a towel lol this would be quite the updgrade
I would absolutely love a new bathmat, I am tired of nasty rugs or towels that take forever to dry and just breed bacteria!
i need a bath mat!
A new medicine cabinet would be nice.
I really can’t stand our bathmat right now, so this would be perfect!! I love the antibacterial nature of cork.
We are using a towel, but I would love to have this bath mat.
An organizer would be helpful. I’ve seen a DIY on pinterest that uses a spice rack; one of these days I’ll make one and corral all those random items on the counter.
a new shower curtain
A nice shower curtain and this bath mat would make my bathroom a little nicer.
I need new bath towels and a new bathroom scale.
Peeling off the 70s wallpaper is a good start!! 🙁
I need a good quality bath mat
Right now we use a bath towel as a mat so the cork mat would be a great improvement!
New shower curtain and bath mat :o)
A toilet paper holder we don’t have one but it would sure make a huge difference.
Something to help get everything organized in a small, small bathroom with a family of four (and two are tween age daughters!).
My current bathmat is Disney Princesses (thanks to Gramma) and I would love one that wasn’t necessarily meant for children 🙂
oh yes for sure a bath mat would make our bathroom better as we just step on towls now when getting out of the tub so this would be swell, thank you!
I need a bath mat for my bathroom since we don’t have one right now
This would make things better in the bathroom. Stepping on towels can be tricky. I think this bath mat is so cute.
This bath mat would be great for my son’s bathroom. They constantly have wet towels on the floor from taking a long bath. I would love to have this and save my washer and my poor body. 🙂
A no-slip bathmat would be great with kids, especially one that hold water better. Thanks for the opportunity.
Ohhh this is cool! I just always end up buying new little bathmats all the time. I like that this is a new way to do it!
Have so wanted to try cork
Aside from a bath mat, I think a really nice towel rack would make my bathroom much nicer!
Does the backside of the mat have the blue outline of a foot too?
No, just the one side.