Soften with vinegar: Like restoring whites, the best, expert-recommended way to soften towels that have become scratchy is to ...

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 ...

Most of us were taught to do laundry in pretty much the same way: The first step, we were told, is to separate laundry by color. This was followed by a bunch of other rules about how to load the ...

Separate your wash by color. Use hot water for whites and cold water for darks. Standard laundry instructions right? Wrong. Times have changed, as have our washing machines, laundry detergents and ...

Sort laundry by color (lights vs. darks) to avoid dye transfer. Separate loads of laundry by fabric, weight, and care labels. Prep clothes by turning them inside out, zipping zippers, and using mesh ...

Ever look on a clothing tag for laundry instructions only to find a bunch of hieroglyph-like symbols that you can’t decipher? Primer Magazine has a simple chart that shows you what each one means.