Best Hair Towels of 2025

The Turbie Twist Microfiber Hair Towel does a decent job of absorbing water. “I feel like it shortened the length of time I had to spend blow-drying my hair,” says Lisa Fogarty, a CR writer who has long, fine, wavy hair.

It’s a good choice for people with curly hair. Though the towel is absorbent, it doesn’t dry your hair so much that it causes frizz, says Jodhaira Rodriguez, a CR writer with long, curly hair.

Our evaluators found the towel to be fairly easy to use: To secure it, you twist one end and loop it through an elastic band. The loop is big, which makes it easy to adjust the towel and keep it in place on your head.

If you have longer hair, the towel might be looser on your head or have trouble containing all your hair. That was the experience of Rodriguez and Ginger Cowles, a CR editor with long hair that falls to her lower back.

As for texture, the Turbie Twist Microfiber Hair Towel may be on the thinner side, but it still feels soft and comfortable. Out of all the hair towels we evaluated, this one felt the most like a luxurious hair towel, Fogarty says.

The DevaCurl DevaTwist Anti-Frizz Microfiber Towel Wrap is slightly pricey, but most evaluators agreed that it’s the best at absorbing water. As someone with short but thicker hair, I found the towel to be better at drying my hair than the other towels we evaluated. The texture is fluffy and silky, and the towel has a fun pop of color that makes it stand out.

But if you have wavy or curly hair, this towel might not cut down on frizziness, despite the promise in its name. For Rodriguez, who has curly hair, the towel rendered her hair almost too dry and frizzy. And Cowles, who has both curly and wavy hair, pointed out that the towel left the hair near the crown of her head tangled. 

Fit-wise, it also might not be the best for those who have longer hair. “It stayed on my head the full 20 minutes, but it was hanging on for dear life toward the end of that time,” Rodriguez says. “I think the weight of my hair was pulling the towel off my head.”

The YoulerTex Microfiber Hair Towel’s pros are that it’s easy to put on and it stays very secure on your head. Compared with the other hair towels, it fit the snuggest on my head when I tried it. Rodriguez agrees. “Once on, it didn’t budge. I put on a shirt with a very small neck opening while my hair was wrapped up in this towel, and it didn’t fall off! I was impressed.” In fact, it’s the only towel we evaluated that fit all of the evaluators’ heads and stayed on without issue.

If you like a thicker towel, the YoulerTex Microfiber Hair Towel is fluffy and thick. While most evaluators enjoyed its texture, Cowles says that it feels rougher than your standard microfiber towel.

It falters a bit when it comes to water absorption. After using it for 10 minutes, I could still feel moisture on my scalp, and my hair strands were slightly wet to the touch. Other evaluators with longer hair felt their hair was still damp after using the towel for 20 minutes.

The Tenstars Microfiber Hair Towel gains points for being the least expensive option among the towels we tried. A single pack, which contains five towels, costs around $15, a marked price difference from some of the more expensive towels we tried, such as the $50 Aquis Flip Hair-Drying Tool discussed below.

According to most of our evaluators, it does a decent job of absorbing moisture from wet hair. And when I measured the weight of water each 4x4-inch towel square had absorbed, it performed the best among all the towels we tried.

The Tenstars Microfiber Hair Towel’s texture is soft and fluffy. Size-wise, however, it’s on the small side. “It didn’t fit my head and all of my hair completely,” Cowles says. It also may not stay securely on your head. When I was using it, the towel would slip, and I had to keep readjusting it. And for Rodriguez, who has longer hair, the towel was sliding off her head so much that it stopped covering the hair along her hairline.

The Aquis Flip Hair-Drying Tool absorbs water fairly well. It’s lengthier than the others, ideal for people with longer hair. With some of the other towels, you have to cram your long hair into them, Fogarty says. With the Aquis Flip Hair-Drying Tool, there was no need.

For Cowles, who frequently had trouble fitting her hair into some of the other towels, the Aquis Flip Hair-Drying Tool had the best fit. "It’s a nice size, and it felt good on my head," Cowles says.

However, some of our evaluators had trouble keeping the towel secure. When I used it, it felt loose, and my hair would sometimes fall out in the back. According to Rodriguez, the towel was halfway off her head minutes after she had begun using it.

The Aquis Flip Hair-Drying Tool’s texture is less soft and fluffy compared with the others, and at $50, it’s the most expensive of the hair towels we evaluated. Is it worth its price tag? If you have longer hair that other hair towels can’t accommodate, then maybe yes. But if your hair is shorter, not really.

The Hicober Microfiber Hair Towel is middling at absorbing water. I found it to be effective at wicking away most of the moisture from my short hair, but for other evaluators with longer hair, it was less optimal. “This towel became a sopping wet mess while I was using it, and after I removed it,” Fogarty says. “ I would not say that it cut down on frizz, nor did it do a good job of drying my hair.”

Its texture also prompted mixed reactions. Two of the evaluators found it soft yet cheap-feeling. “It felt thinner and just not as luxurious on my head as the others,” Rodriguez says.

For evaluators with longer hair, the towel struggled to contain all their hair. If you have a bigger head, the Hicober Microfiber Hair Towel also might be too small for you.

It’s also not the easiest towel to use. To fasten it on your head, you tuck the button on one end of the towel into the elastic band on the other end. Both the button and the band were too small for one of our evaluators. For another, the elastic band’s placement inside the towel, rather than on the outside, made it awkward to apply. 

Overall, the Hicober Microfiber Hair Towel was one of our least favorite towels. Its texture and the difficulties of using it drew especially negative reactions from our evaluators. It’s a skip.