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Washing symbols: What do the washing signs mean?

What exactly do these signs mean? Here comes the solution ...
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Maintain laundry properly

No more run-in, discolored clothes - we decipher the most important care instructions in laundry signs.

Of course, we want to wear the freshly picked, new favorite part quickly. It looks so incredibly good to us. But before that it should be washed naturally. Why is that important? The material used in jeans, pullovers, skirts and shirts may contain residues of dyes and the like, which may cause sensitive skin to react with itching and, at worst, an allergic rash. Then, of course, it has lain in the warehouse for a while, many people have touched it off the rack and tried it on themselves ... so it makes sense that the good piece first gets to know a laundry.

Hello, detergent and softener

So off to the washing machine - but stop! At how many degrees can I actually wash my favorite piece? Can it be tamed after that? Information about material composition and care is provided by the inside sewn-in label.

But what are the wash symbols listed there? Most people still recognize the number of degrees easily, but what do triangles, circles and the dots in the iron sign mean?

We tell you in our gallery above, what is behind the mysterious ironing and washing signs .

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