about Kleenex^® Hand Towels - faq

Because the KLEENEX^® Brand is committed to offering products that help consumers care for themselves and their families with everyday essentials that help make a better life. For example, years ago, the KLEENEX^® Brand's first-of-its-kind facial tissue products replaced cloth handkerchiefs for a more hygienic solution. KLEENEX^® continues its leadership and commitment to consumers with the introduction of disposable hand towels.

KLEENEX^® Hand Towels provide people with an alternative solution to traditional cloth bathroom hand towels, offering a clean, fresh towel every time. In fact, in the U.S. alone, people dry their hands on cloth bathroom towels approximately 200 billion times per year and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) guidelines for hand washing recommends hand drying with a single-use towel to help reduce the spread of germs.

Yes, the product's unique, Cottony-Soft base sheet is free of inks, dyes and fragrances and highly absorbent drying hands effectively, with enough capacity in the brand's proprietary, absorbent Dry-Touch fibers for secondary quick clean-ups around the bathroom sink.

KLEENEX^® Hand Towels can be used anywhere! But, the flexible packaging complements bathroom décor and space limitations, allowing the product to be placed on a towel bar or countertop. The Pop-Up delivery system always keeps one clean, fresh, dry towel conveniently at hand.

Look for Kleenex Hand Towels in the paper towel aisle at grocery and mass retailers nationwide at a suggested retail price of $2.99 per box.

Visit About Kleenex^® Hand Towels for additional product information and for educational activities designed to teach hand hygiene, including an original song.

Kimberly-Clark has long recognized the importance of corporate responsibility and integrated the concept of sustainability in our business practices. We published our first annual sustainability report in 2004, and the reports can be reviewed at www.kimberly-clark.com. From raw materials, our manufacturing processes, even our supply chain, we're building sustainability into every facet of how we work. This includes selecting suppliers that operate in a sustainable manner. To that end, we work hard to assure that the wood fiber we purchase comes only from well-managed forestlands or from recycled sources.

At Kimberly-Clark, we take concern for the environment and conservation of natural resources seriously. In 2009, the Kimberly-Clark Foundation donated $400,000 to environmental causes and $550,000 over the last three years to Conservation International (CI) for a biodiversity conservation project. The project will have environmental benefits for the Atlantic Forest in Brazil, a major global pulp producing region that provides 30 percent of our fiber.

Kimberly-Clark has one of the most progressive fiber procurement policies in the tissue industry. We support forestry practices that help conserve valuable forestlands, respect fundamental human rights and ensure both a thriving ecosystem and a sustainable source of wood fiber for the future. In fact, K-C was the first major tissue company to set the goal of purchasing 100 percent of our wood fiber from suppliers that gain independent certification of their woodlands or their fiber procurement activities.

KLEENEX^® Brand Hand Towels offer a hygienic option for our consumers by providing an alternative to traditional cloth bathroom hand towels. KLEENEX^® Hand Towels-- a clean, fresh towel every time^™.

Because of the superior softness consumers expect from KLEENEX^® Brand, KLEENEX^® Brand Hand Towels are made with 100 percent virgin fiber. The product's unique, Cottony-Soft base sheet is free of inks, dyes and fragrances and is soft enough for faces yet durable for family needs.

Yes, you can recycle the carton at a facility that processes paperboard.