Complete Portuguese translation table for care instructions, washing labels, and textile symbols. Copy-ready translations for your Shopify product labels.
Portuguese is one of the top languages your Shopify store needs if you sell to Brazil or Portugal. Washing labels, care instructions, product descriptions: everything needs to be accurate. And when it comes to care labels, a wrong translation isn’t just confusing, it can damage clothing and lead to returns. This guide covers every care symbol and washing instruction you need to translate to Portuguese for your Shopify products. If you want this done automatically across your entire catalogue, the Translate Product Images app for Shopify handles it without manual effort.
TL;DR: Need to translate washing labels and care instructions to Portuguese for your Shopify store?
Here’s a complete translation table plus tips for the Brazil, Portugal, Angola, Mozambique market.
If you sell clothing, textiles, or any products with care labels to Portuguese-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 Portuguese (Português). Copy these directly or use them as reference:
| English | Portuguese |
|---|---|
| Machine wash cold | Lavar à máquina com água fria |
| Machine wash warm | Lavar à máquina com água morna |
| Hand wash only | Lavar somente à mão |
| Do not wash | Não lavar |
| English | Portuguese |
|---|---|
| Do not bleach | Não usar alvejante |
| Bleach when needed | Alvejante se necessário |
| English | Portuguese |
|---|---|
| Tumble dry low | Secar na secadora em baixa temperatura |
| Tumble dry medium | Secar na secadora em temperatura média |
| Do not tumble dry | Não secar na secadora |
| Dry flat | Secar na horizontal |
| Hang to dry | Secar pendurado |
| English | Portuguese |
|---|---|
| Iron low heat | Passar a ferro em baixa temperatura |
| Iron medium heat | Passar a ferro em temperatura média |
| Iron high heat | Passar a ferro em alta temperatura |
| Do not iron | Não passar a ferro |
| English | Portuguese |
|---|---|
| Dry clean only | Somente lavagem a seco |
| Do not dry clean | Não lavar a seco |
Brazil is Latin America’s largest e-commerce market at $50+ billion annually and growing 20%+ per year. Portugal adds another €10 billion.
Properly translated care labels signal that you take the Portuguese-speaking market seriously. It builds trust and reduces returns from customers who couldn’t understand washing instructions.
Brazilian Portuguese differs from European Portuguese in vocabulary and spelling. Uses ã, õ, ç, and accent marks. Brazil uses different quotation marks.
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 Portuguese 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 Portuguese care instruction translations you need. For a complete solution that handles all your product image translations automatically: