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. What are all ...

And do you even know what any of the others actually mean? In fact, people are so bemused about the meaning of some of the pictures that the search term ‘what do laundry labels mean‘ has received a ...

WHEN washing clothes, it's tempting to claim that ignorance is bliss, and disregard the confounding laundry symbols on the care tag. But once you know the secret code, those symbols are easy to ...

If you want to save your knitwear from shrinking disasters and your whites from turning murky then you've got to get domesticated with the language of laundry. Not the most glamorous task ever asked ...

People have been left shocked after finally learning the meaning of a symbol on laundry labels. Some are still struggling to decipher what all the shapes on care labels mean, despite doing their own ...

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Do you know what it means if it has a square with a dash in the middle, for example? YOU might take a quick glimpse at a laundry label before shoving something into the washing machine. But other than ...