A picture may be worth a thousand words, but sometimes it’s more confusing than text. That goes double when it’s one of the many laundry symbols found on the care label of your clothes.

A recent poll found just three per cent of us could identify all of the washing, drying and ironing symbols on our clothes. Of the symbols, “hand wash only” was the most well known ...

Hot, cold, or hand-wash? Here’s what those laundry symbols on your clothing tags really mean. Hand holding clothing care tag. For many, washing clothes means throwing things in the washer and ...

Stick with hand washing or dry cleaning, depending on what other symbols appear. Your eyes do not deceive you: this is the same symbol as “Machine Wash.” If you see it without additional wash ...

We all have laundry horror stories ... Once you wash your garment, a separate group of drying symbols helps you choose from dry cleaning, hand drying, tumble drying, and other options.

It’s happened to most of us: we’ve had to wash a brand new item of clothing, only to be perplexed by the laundry symbols ... Another common symbol is a tub with a hand in it, which indicates ...

If you've ever ruined clothes due to confusion over laundry labels ... the meaning of all symbols on garments, while 20% confessed they 'don't know very many'. The 'hand wash only' sign is ...

Do not put it in the washing machine. There’s another washing symbol that indicates how to hand-wash clothes: If you see an icon that looks like a wrapped, hard candy with an X through it ...