Laundry symbols are a guide to the best way to care for your clothes. Here's what each of the washing symbols mean and how to use them.

Because people do laundry all around the world, the industry has created a standard of five basic symbols that form a kind of universal language. To make it even easier, laundry symbols are always ...

A symbol with one line underneath it means you can machine wash an article of clothing on the permanent press cycle. If it has two lines underneath, then you should use the delicate cycle.

Here's what the most common laundry symbols mean on your clothing's care label. (And for more laundry tips, ... In this case, you'd follow the machine or hand wash instructions.

Washing machine symbols Almost all the washing symbols will be based on an image that looks like a bowl of water. The only one that doesn’t look like this is the do not wring symbol, which ...

As with the washing and drying symbols, the majority of ironing symbols relate to the temperature a garment can be ironed at. 9 Iron cool (max 110°C) – an iron with a single dot inside.

As with the washing and drying symbols, the majority of ironing symbols relate to the temperature a garment can be ironed at. 9 Iron cool (max 110°C) – an iron with a single dot inside.

The Photos app in iOS 17 can identify a wide range of symbols, including the laundry symbols that you see on clothing tags. As noted by MacStories' Federico Vittici, if you take a photo of a tag ...

A WHOPPING £6.8billion is being wasted each year by shrinking and damaging clothes – simply because we can’t understand laundry care symbols. The average annual bill comes to £128.99 of ...