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In thanksgiving 2008, I bought several towels by Grandeur (picture below). I still use those towels. I paid about $8.00 each. I like the sophisticated color, wasabi green. These towels feel amazingly good. Since then, I’ve been checking prices on towels whenever I go to Linens and Things. Towels of this quality will easily cost you $25+.
Sometime last year, Costco stopped carrying Grandeur and now they stock Charisma towels. Charisma towels are inferior to Grandeur and have somewhat cheap-looking colors. (picture at bottom). Also, Charisma towels don’t feel as luxurious. They are still of good value. But I like the older brand “Grandeur” much better. I was disappointed that Grandeur towels were no longer available at Costco.
Update 2021: 11 – 13 years later, I still use both Grandeur & Charisma towels. The old brand “Grandeur” is still better than Charisma. Also, since It’s been 13 years, I am unsure if Grandeur is still making quality towels. So, next time I will try more luxurious Turkish towels from Costco.
After Thanksgiving shopping 2008 – Older brand “Grandeur” Shown
New Towels by Charisma.
A great way to fix the lint
A great way to fix the lint problem. BEFORE WASHING:
Put towels in dryer for several cycles (3 – 5) – cleaning lint screen each cycle. When you have very little lint to clean, it is time to wash. Do not combine different colors together.
Wash load with 1/2 cup of white vinegar – this will set the color of the towels and prevent fading! Dry as normal. You will not have a lint issue and your towels will look great!
I never wash towels with other clothes as it pills up the clothes and the towels don’t stay as nice. I wash my towel colors together (white with white, green with green) but not with each other and have Costco towels in beautiful condition for 20+ years (cream and sea foam green).
Best to you!
I bought martex towels from
I bought martex towels from Costco almost 20 yrs ago still using. I have bleached them and they still look good and still soft.
I just bought the ribbed
I just bought the ribbed towels in white and sea foam. We washed them and then when used, they left lint all over my boyfriend’s face. He hates that. Who doesn’t. Guess they are going back, I am not chancing that they will continue to shed even after a half dozen washes. There are good towels that don’t do this, so the search continues.
Charisma towels are great but
Charisma towels are great but if I’m not mistaken you are supposed to wash them once before using (to get all the lint out of them) and make them softer and more absorbent I believe. My favorite color was the ivory color, but now they only have the ivory in for the bath sheets which I don’t want. I hope they bring the Charisma towels in ivory back someday since I was only able to buy 3 before they discontinued them.
We visited our son in Utah.
We visited our son in Utah. My daughter in law gave us these wonderful Charisma towels to use. We liked them so much we went to their Cosco and bought some. They are so absorbent and soft. They are the ribbed type. Will definately buy more.
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I bought Charisma towels 15 years ago–they are still perfect. Wanting more hand towels, I got a package at Costco.
Charisma quality is now very bad: the hand towels shrank 2 inches in length, 1 in width. The edges are also ‘ruffled’, the towels no longer can lay flat. I checked another site for Charisma complaints–and they all say what I said. They will be returned. HOPEFULLY, Costco will return to selling their previous brand of towels, Grandeur–as the poster above speaks about.
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I purchased four of these whent they were on sale a few months back. Two of them have frayed on the edges, and all of them have pulled threads everywhere. I usually find Costco items to be of the highest quality, but these towels were a disappointment. I am sure Costco would accept them back for a full refund but, unfortunately, the receipt for them has faded too much to read.
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You don’t need a receipt. If you have a good idea of when you bought them, they can look up the purchase date by searching the purchases made on your membership number.
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I had a different problem with the Charisma towels form Costco.
I bought the whole set in the berry like color, washed them once before use, all bath towels frayed at the edges and large amounts of strings came out.
I returned the whole set, looked for similar ones elsewhere because I really liked the way they felt.
I Couldn’t find anything good in the price range of my Costco towels so I bought the same entire set again in the berry and in the grey too. I washed them and they seem ok so far, I will be watching them for fraying and if it happens again I will return them.
I wanted to give it one more try because they are really nice and they sell at Bloomingdale’s for $25 for a bath towel and on sale they go for $19.
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I bought some of these towels recently. They are a total disappointment. Not only does half the towel end up in the lint filter, but they shed all over the bathroom and your body. Large threads hang off and they also pill! The dark brown ones are the worst I have ever seen. I bought J. C. Penney towels at the same time and have not had any where near the problems that I have with the Costco towels. They are a terrible product
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Have you people never bought new towels before. Even extremely expensive towels tend to leave a lot of lint behind until they have been washed a half dozen times. It goes with the territory. The more you wash them the less lint they produce and the more absorbent they become.
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Has anyone had any problems with them spotting? I do not use bleach in my laundry, but it looks like they all have bleach spots.
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I know what you’re talking about.
However, I don’t have any light spot on Charisma towel.
I have a few spots on the older Grandeur towels.
I am still stumped how those spots happen. If I accidentally spill bleach, I should get larger spots. I don’t know..
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Yes, I have had the same problem with my new purple ones. Nearly every one of them has bleach spots on them and I don’t use bleach either. It is crazy. I’m going to take mine back because they just keep getting worse with every wash.
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I TOO have had my Costco Charisma towels not only developed bleach spots, despite not being exposed to peroxide or bleach, but the entire towels “color shift”, and each one in different ways! I had purchased a lovely, aqua, color, only to have some of them change to a pale blue after laundering. I purchased my set early in 2013. I purchased bath towels, hand towels and washcloths, and a floor mat. The floormat developed the most spots.
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Wow, a lot of bad reviews on Charisma…
Thank you for letting us know
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My wife picked up these towels last week. I just washed them and they ruined a load of laundry with lint. Half the towel was on the lint screen. I guess the chinese didnt bother to try to launder these towels before trying to sell them. They are going back to Crapsco.
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They are made in India! I’ve bought several towels from different stores like JCPenney and Kohls that are made in India and they all feel the same way—soft but not absorbent. What is up with that? I need to take the towels back to Costco and Kohls.
I looked at my old absorbent towels and found that they’re all made in the good ol’ USA!
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The black Charisma towels that I bought from Costco are a nightmare. They shed large pieces of lint in the wash and large swatches of dusty black all over the bathroom. This was a huge disappointment.
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Mm.. I see.
The green one I bought is pretty good.
It’s not as good as Grandeur they used to sell.
But, they are definitely a good value.
I will avoid black ones.
Thank you for letting me know.
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Same Story for me too. I am taking them bavck to Costco to return. There’s lint all over the house and the washer from the black Charisma towels. I bought 3 sets and they all have the same issue.
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Thank you for letting me know.
I really liked Grandeur brand.
I hope they bring them back.
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What do you think of that marinated salmon? How do you prepare it? I’m thinking of buying some. Thanks.
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Salmon has full flavor (salty with thick sauce).
So, I don’t do anything special.
I just heat it up on the pan. The whole thing takes 5-6 minutes(?).
I like them a lot.
But, I can see how some people might not like the taste.
It has a FULL flavor. It’s got strong smell (which I like).