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How to read washing labels? The Easy Guide To Stop Making Mistakes!

How to read washing labels? The Easy Guide To Stop Making Mistakes!

Doing laundry is a chore we all wish we could avoid!

But what's even worse is trying to decipher the symbols on the washing labels...

What a hassle, a real Chinese puzzle!

As a result, we often end up with a shrunken sweater at the exit...

So what do all those weird symbols and logos on your clothes wash labels mean?

Fortunately, here is the essential guide to easily read the symbols on the washing labels of clothes . Watch:

How to read washing labels? The Easy Guide To Stop Making Mistakes!

Click here to easily print this guide in PDF.

How to decipher washing labels

The symbols on the washing labels are divided into 5 categories:washing, bleaching, drying, ironing and professional cleaning.

WASHING SYMBOLS

How to read washing labels? The Easy Guide To Stop Making Mistakes!

- Cotton program wash (no line)

How to read washing labels? The Easy Guide To Stop Making Mistakes!

- Synthetic program wash (one stroke)

How to read washing labels? The Easy Guide To Stop Making Mistakes!

- Delicate program wash (two strokes)

How to read washing labels? The Easy Guide To Stop Making Mistakes!

- Hand wash: do not machine wash. The garment can only be dry cleaned and must not be washed.

How to read washing labels? The Easy Guide To Stop Making Mistakes!

- No washing: the garment can only be dry cleaned and must not be washed.

BLEACHING SYMBOLS (bleach)

How to read washing labels? The Easy Guide To Stop Making Mistakes!

- All types of money laundering authorized: the garment can be treated with bleach or sodium percarbonate.

How to read washing labels? The Easy Guide To Stop Making Mistakes!

- Bleaching with oxygenated agents only: the garment can be treated only with bleaching agents such as sodium percarbonate.

How to read washing labels? The Easy Guide To Stop Making Mistakes!

- No bleaching: do not use bleach to treat the garment. It should be washed only with products designed for colored laundry or delicate laundry.

DRYING SYMBOLS

How to read washing labels? The Easy Guide To Stop Making Mistakes!

- Tumble dry at normal temperature (two points): drying program at 80°C.

How to read washing labels? The Easy Guide To Stop Making Mistakes!

- Tumble dry low (one point): choose a drying program with moderate temperature (60°C) and reduced drying time.

How to read washing labels? The Easy Guide To Stop Making Mistakes!

- Line drying

How to read washing labels? The Easy Guide To Stop Making Mistakes!

- Line drying by dripping without machine spinning

How to read washing labels? The Easy Guide To Stop Making Mistakes!

- Dry flat

How to read washing labels? The Easy Guide To Stop Making Mistakes!

- Do not tumble dry: do not tumble dry.

How to read washing labels? The Easy Guide To Stop Making Mistakes!

- No hand spin

How to read washing labels? The Easy Guide To Stop Making Mistakes!

- Dry in the shade

IRONING SYMBOLS

How to read washing labels? The Easy Guide To Stop Making Mistakes!

- Hot ironing (3 points): iron at a maximum temperature of 200°C (cotton, linen programme)

How to read washing labels? The Easy Guide To Stop Making Mistakes!

- Iron at moderate temperature (2 points): iron at a maximum temperature of 150°C (wool, silk, polyester, viscose programme).

How to read washing labels? The Easy Guide To Stop Making Mistakes!

- Iron at low temperature (1 point): iron at a maximum temperature of 110°C (acrylic, nylon and acetate programme). Attention, do not use steam.

How to read washing labels? The Easy Guide To Stop Making Mistakes!

- No ironing: risk of irreversible changes in case of ironing.

DRY CLEANING SYMBOLS

How to read washing labels? The Easy Guide To Stop Making Mistakes!

- Dry cleaning with all types of solvent stain removers

How to read washing labels? The Easy Guide To Stop Making Mistakes!

- Dry cleaning with perchlorethylene

How to read washing labels? The Easy Guide To Stop Making Mistakes!

- Dry cleaning with mineral spirits

How to read washing labels? The Easy Guide To Stop Making Mistakes!

- No dry cleaning: stain removers with solvents should not be used

Result

There you go, now you know how to read the symbols on the labels of your clothes :-)

No more clothes that have shrunk in the washing machine because of the wrong washing program!

Click here to print this guide as a PDF and hang it next to your washing machine or dryer.

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