About us · Since 1998
Care, considered.
For more than twenty-five years, Rosabelle has cared for Singapore's garments under one roof and to one standard.
The one you go to when it has to be done right.
Our approach
The highest standard for every garment
Most dry cleaners route garments through a third-party plant they don't oversee. We don't. Every piece that comes through our doors is cleaned at our own facility, by our own trained team, from drop-off to collection.
That is why customers hand us both their daily wear and the pieces they can't replace.
our Cleaning methods
Choosing between dry cleaning and wet cleaning
Dry cleaning uses a liquid solvent instead of water. It removes oil and grease without swelling fibres, which is why it's used on structured tailoring and fabrics with unstable dye. Professional wet cleaning uses water under controlled dosing, temperature and reshaping. It removes water-soluble soiling such as sweat and wine, and suits garments that need that level of control. Each process is suited to different fibres, constructions and types of soiling.
Rosabelle runs both processes in-house. Every garment is assessed on its fibre, construction and soiling before cleaning, and treated with solvent, water, or a combination of both depending on that assessment. A dry-clean-only label is checked against the garment rather than followed automatically.
Wet cleaning is carried out on an Electrolux Professional Lagoon system, approved by The Woolmark Company since 2004 for cleaning wool garments labelled dry-clean-only.
The approval follows independent laboratory testing against Woolmark's specification for professional wet-cleaning systems, covering the wash, extraction and drying stages a wool garment goes through.
our Environment
Where the impact actually sits
Much of the environmental cost in garment care sits in replacement rather than cleaning. A leather jacket recovered from mould, a gown whose stains came out, a hem repaired instead of binned — each is a garment that didn't have to be made again. That is most of what this business does, and it is the part of our environmental record we're most confident about.
On method: we use environmentally friendly cleaning methods built on an organic solvent, alongside water-based professional wet cleaning. It is gentler on the garment as well. Solvent lifts oil and grease without swelling fibres, so there is less unnecessary wear, and pieces come back looking, feeling and smelling as they should.
Where a garment could take either process, we choose the one that will clean it properly the first time. A piece that has to be cleaned twice, or thrown away, costs far more than the difference between the two methods.
What we won't do is talk down another cleaner's process to make ours look better. A good deal of the environmental marketing in this trade works exactly that way, and we would rather tell you what our machines actually do and let you weigh it up. If you want to know how a specific garment will be handled, ask us and we'll tell you.
our finishing
Why we press by hand
Most garments elsewhere are pressed by machine, which applies the same heat and pressure to everything that passes through it. Fine fabrics, structured tailoring, and delicate construction each need to be pressed differently. A machine doesn't know the difference between a polyester work shirt and a structured linen jacket. A trained hand does.
Learning to press properly takes years, not weeks. It starts with reading the fabric, the seams, and the construction of each garment before the iron ever touches it.
Our garments are hand-pressed by staff trained over years of daily practice. It takes longer, and it is the reason a collar or a lapel comes back sitting the way it was cut to sit.
our caveat
What we won't promise
Not every stain comes out. Treating a difficult one always carries some risk to delicate or aged fabric. We assess each piece and let you decide.