Complete Spanish translation table for care instructions, washing labels, and textile symbols. Copy-ready translations for your Shopify product labels.
Spanish is spoken by over 500 million people across Spain, Latin America, and the United States. If your Shopify store sells clothing or textile products to any Spanish-speaking market, your washing labels and care instructions need to be in Spanish. This guide gives you a complete translation table for care symbols and washing instructions in Spanish, covering Spain as well as Latin American Spanish variants. To automate this across your entire product catalogue, the Translate Product Images app for Shopify handles Spanish care label translation automatically.
TL;DR: Need to translate washing labels and care instructions to Spanish for your Shopify store?
Here’s a complete translation table plus tips for the Spain, Mexico, Argentina, Colombia, United States (Hispanic) market.
If you sell clothing, textiles, or any products with care labels to Spanish-speaking customers, you need translated washing instructions. Customers expect to see care information in their language – and in many markets, it’s legally required.
Here’s every standard washing label instruction translated to Spanish (Español). Copy these directly or use them as reference:
| English | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Machine wash cold | Lavar a máquina en frío |
| Machine wash warm | Lavar a máquina en tibio |
| Hand wash only | Lavar solo a mano |
| Do not wash | No lavar |
| English | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Do not bleach | No usar blanqueador |
| Bleach when needed | Blanquear si es necesario |
| English | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Tumble dry low | Secar en secadora a baja temperatura |
| Tumble dry medium | Secar en secadora a temperatura media |
| Do not tumble dry | No secar en secadora |
| Dry flat | Secar en horizontal |
| Hang to dry | Secar colgado |
| English | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Iron low heat | Planchar a baja temperatura |
| Iron medium heat | Planchar a temperatura media |
| Iron high heat | Planchar a alta temperatura |
| Do not iron | No planchar |
| English | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Dry clean only | Solo limpieza en seco |
| Do not dry clean | No limpiar en seco |
Spanish reaches 500+ million speakers globally. Spain’s e-commerce market exceeds €60 billion, while Latin American markets are growing rapidly at 25%+ annually.
Properly translated care labels signal that you take the Spanish-speaking market seriously. It builds trust and reduces returns from customers who couldn’t understand washing instructions.
Spanish uses ñ, inverted punctuation (¿ ¡), and accent marks (á, é, í, ó, ú). Latin American Spanish differs slightly from European Spanish.
When translating product images for your Shopify store, keep these language-specific requirements in mind. Your translations need to display correctly on the actual product labels.
You have several options to display translated care instructions:
For stores with many products, manually translating each care label is time-consuming. Our bulk translation features let you translate all product images and labels to Spanish in minutes instead of hours.
Care labels are just one type of product label that needs translation. Consider also translating:
Now you have all the Spanish care instruction translations you need. For a complete solution that handles all your product image translations automatically: