>>>>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! ;-)
>
>Something like https://dilbert.com/strip/1996-12-31 .
>
>>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.
>
>It looks like the manufacturer has figured out a way to spin some sort of "yarn" using ultra-short staple cotton (i.e. lint) plus wax/silicone.
This reminds me of the Chinese ceiling fans I bought. 11 fans all came in the same looking boxes, all with the same item number and all looked exactly the same when assembled - in 4 different ways and 10 pounds of leftover screws, brackets, bolts and nuts.