Machine wash, 30°C
The item can be washed in water up to 30°C (86°F) on a normal cycle.
How to read it
The number in the washtub is the highest water temperature allowed, in degrees Celsius, and the tub symbol covers washing by machine and by hand. No bar under the tub means the normal cycle. The same tub with one bar underneath calls for a mild cycle, and with two bars a very mild one.
Also searched as: 30 degree wash, washtub 30.
Where a garment's own label or its manufacturer says otherwise, that takes precedence.
Differences by country or standard
The Canadian government's guide, based on the Canadian care labelling standard, marks water temperature with dots in the tub instead of a number: one dot for 30°C, two for 40°C, four for 60°C. The temperature limits are the same.
Japan's switch in 2016
Japan used its own care symbols, under the standard JIS L 0217, until 1 December 2016. Since then labels there follow JIS L 0001, which brings them into line with the international symbols of ISO 3758; according to CINET, an international textile care association, the number of care symbols in use in Japan went from 22 to 41. Japan's Household Goods Quality Labeling Act requires textile goods to carry their care information as JIS L 0001 prescribes.
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Sources
- Textiles — Care labelling code using symbols, ISO 3758, ISO, Abstract (ISO 3758:2023)
- Standard Guide for Care Symbols for Care Instructions on Textile Products, ASTM D5489, ASTM International, section 4.6 (ASTM D5489-25)
- Textile Care Symbols, GINETEX, the International Association for Textile Care Labelling, p. 5
- Guide to Apparel and Textile Care Symbols, CAN/CGSB-86.1-2003, Office of Consumer Affairs, Government of Canada, p. 2
- Japan – New Care Labeling Symbols Under the Household Goods Quality Labeling Regulation Approved, Insight bulletin vol. 823, 14 April 2015, Intertek
- Japan Harmonizes Clothing Care Symbols with ISO Standards, 23 November 2016, CINET
- Household Goods Quality Labeling Act Handbook: Textile Goods, Plastic Goods, Consumer Affairs Agency, Government of Japan
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