I remember the previous Kipling rep, Lorraine, saying that the company had revoked their advice to machine wash the bags because a number of people had washed them at 90c and then complained about the result. She said from then on their official advice was to handwash them and that machine washing had to be at the customers own risk, but that she still machine washed her own bags on a cool programme with non-bio detergent! I recall Kathy T and Debbie Greenwood both chiming in that they machine washed theirs in the same way :nod: