how can I get the moldy smell out of my towels!!

I do live in florida,

I will use a clean towel right from the dryer, and it will not smell until it comes in contact with my wet body, and while I am drying myself off after a bath that I will smell this moldy smell. non of my other clothes smell. just the towels. my water otherwise smells fine, and this does not happen to my cloth diapers just the towels, sometimes they were not washed right away, and kids have let them on the floor and so I would put them in the wash, but once they got a moldy smell from hanging out, the smell would keep coming back, hmm, I suppose I could try ammonia, since the diapers don't get moldy (my kid is out of diapers now, but I never had a moldy diaper but I have had diapers I needed to 'strip" but I always could strip them, but the same method does not work on the towels)

I never thought to use lysol or ammonia on the towels, I am grateful for roadfamily asking me questions that got me to think about how the diapers never smelled musty or moldy. I'm liking the lysol idea even better than the ammonia idea because I don't like the smell of ammonia and tend to avoid the product, so I think I will try lysol first. I dont care if my towels fade, I used bleach on them and they didn't fade much at all.

yep, I wash immediately and fully dry and have no problems with the other clothing and linens. they only smell when trying to dry off from a shower or bath. I moved here from CA and didn't have the problem there, in fact I could take a shower and let my towels hang and dry and re use them, I may have initially did the CA thing and then mold grew in them. my kids may have left wet towels on a floor or chair for a day, and they got smelly after just one day, so I immediately washed them. the thing is once they got musty, moldy they were never the same again, and I did lots of stripping like one would do with diapers, but thanks to this thread, I realize that I never tried ammonia or lysol or anything that is not specifically a laundry thing.

I am really excited to get some lysol and see what happens, and if that doesnt' work I will do the ammonia thing, as soon as I do it, I will update! :)