>>Label claims 100% cotton - see image. But the label's the easiest thing to fake. The English looks OK but the French has a typo.
Sure does!
According to the interwebs, some helpful suppliers provide "100% cotton" labels referring to the label itself. If somebody were to sew those onto plastic towels, you cannot blame the label manufacturer for that! ;-)
If it's sliding over you without drying, Occam's Razor says either it's a miserable effort without enough loops to absorb water, or it's got plenty of plastic in it.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
