YOU might take a quick glimpse at a laundry label before shoving something into the washing machine. But other than noting the temperature it needs to be washed at, do you ever look at any of the ...

The standard bleaching symbols are as follows: Bleaching allowed – a single, empty triangle with the point facing upwards.

Clothes labels are full of strict instructions on how to wash our laundry but many have probably never looked at them closely.

or you could use your machine’s hand wash cycle if it has one. Do not wash – a bowl of water with a cross over it. “There aren’t as many bleaching symbols as there are washing symbols ...