Dry Cleaning & Laundry Services in Singapore

Dry cleaning washes a garment in a liquid solvent instead of water; professional laundering washes it in water. The difference matters because water swells natural fibres such as wool and cotton and can shrink, felt or distort them, while solvent lifts oil and grease without swelling the fibre in the same way. Structured tailoring, wool, silk and dye-sensitive pieces usually go to solvent; cotton shirts, workwear and everyday washables usually go to water, which is better at the water-soluble soil those garments actually carry. At Rosabelle the choice is made per garment at assessment rather than by category, and we also run a dedicated professional wet-cleaning process for pieces that want water under controlled conditions.

Guide prices at Rosabelle start at $10 for a shirt or blouse dry-cleaned and $8 laundered, $10 for trousers or a skirt dry-cleaned and $8 laundered, $15 for a dress dry-cleaned and $13 laundered, $20 for a coat or jacket dry-cleaned and $17 laundered, $25 for a long jacket, and $35 for a two-piece suit. Pressing only, without cleaning, is from $7 for a shirt or blouse. Silk, linen, embellished and other delicate materials may carry an additional charge, always confirmed with you before any cleaning starts. The full list is on the price list.

About five working days as standard, which is our normal turnaround for ordinary garments. Express is available for a premium, including same working-day options at our Orchard outlet. Specialist work runs longer: leather, suede and fur are two weeks and upwards, and restoration work typically three weeks and up. If you need a piece back for a particular date, say so when you hand it in and we will tell you whether it is possible.

Yes. Express turnaround is available for a premium, with same working-day service at our Orchard outlet. Same-day dry cleaning starts from $80, and prices vary with the garment, so it is confirmed before the work starts. A message sent before 2pm is same-day where the garment allows it; 2pm or later is the next working day. Full details are on the express and tourist laundry page.

Yes. Shirts and blouses can be professionally hand-pressed without being cleaned, from $7. It is the right option for a garment that is clean but creased — out of a suitcase, or off a hanger it has been crushed on — and it avoids putting a piece through a cleaning cycle it does not need.

Yes. A two-piece business suit is from $35, and both pieces should always be cleaned together even when only one looks dirty, because wool changes tone very slightly with each clean and a jacket and trousers cleaned apart will drift away from each other over time. A structured jacket carries canvas, interlining and shoulder construction under the face cloth, and those layers move differently from the wool, so the finishing is done by hand to put the line back rather than pressed flat.

Less often than most people think: every 3 to 6 wears for regular rotation, or promptly after visible soiling, spills or heavy perspiration. Between cleans, brushing does most of the maintenance — Woolmark recommends brushing wool lengthwise with a soft garment brush after wearing, to take off surface soil that might otherwise become a stain, and resting a wool garment for 24 hours between wears so the fibre recovers its shape. Pressing only, from $7 for a shirt, covers the case where a garment is clean but creased. One exception matters: if a suit will not be worn again for some time, clean it before it goes away, even if it looks spotless.

Yes. Silk is a protein fibre that water-spots and can lose its lustre or bleed dye if it is handled wrongly, so it is assessed for dye stability before a method is chosen. Wool and cashmere have surface scales that lift when the fibre is wet and warm and lock together under mechanical action, which is what felting and shrinking are, so heat and agitation are kept off them. Delicate materials may carry an additional charge, confirmed with you first.

Wet cleaning is a professional water-based process using controlled temperature, gentle agitation and specialised detergents, and it is not the same as home washing. Dry cleaning uses a liquid solvent instead of water. We run a dedicated wet-cleaning process alongside the dry-cleaning plant, because water is better on water-soluble soil — perspiration, most food and drink — while solvent is better on oil and grease and safer on construction that water would distort. Some garments are safer in solvent, some respond better to professional wet cleaning, and part of our job is choosing correctly for each piece rather than defaulting to one method.

Yes, and not only suits. Perspiration, skin oils and food traces are often invisible when fresh, but they do not stay harmless. Sweat and sebum carried into cloth are the precursors skin bacteria turn into odour, and some sebum is difficult to wash out of synthetics, so residue left in a fibre stays available. Clothes moth larvae feed on wool and other animal fibres, and fabric carrying food, perspiration or urine stains is more subject to damage; Woolmark puts it plainly — food stains and body oils attract moths, so a wool garment should be clean before it is packed away. Singapore makes this sharper, with relative humidity averaging over 80 per cent. Clean the garment, dry it fully, and store it loose and breathable rather than sealed.

Storage yellowing is usually old perspiration, body oil or food residue that has oxidised in the fibre over months or years, so it is a change that has already happened in the cloth rather than soil sitting on top of it. How much comes out depends on the fibre, how long it sat, what the residue was and whether anything was applied to it in the meantime. Bring the piece in and we will tell you what we can see before any work starts. Complete removal is possible on some garments but cannot be guaranteed.

Dry cleaning costs more because it is a different job, not a bigger washing machine. Solvent-based cleaning, garment-by-garment assessment, stain treatment, and hand-pressing all take trained labour and time; a shirt passes through several skilled hands before it's returned. Two cleaners can quote very different prices because the work behind the price often isn't the same.

Silk, linen, embellished, and other delicate materials may carry additional charges, always confirmed with you before cleaning.

In-house, at our own Queenstown facility at 163 Stirling Road. Nothing is sent to a third-party plant. Garments dropped at the Orchard shop in Far East Shopping Centre, and everything collected on our pickup and delivery service, come back to Queenstown to be cleaned and finished, then go back to the outlet or out to you.

Yes. Islandwide pickup and delivery is available, free on standard orders of $100 and above, with a $20 delivery charge below that. Collection is usually the next day, with the window agreed over WhatsApp, and our own driver does the collection. You can also drop off at either shop, Queenstown at 163 Stirling Road or Orchard at Far East Shopping Centre.

Leather, suede, shearling and fur are cleaned in-house on a completely separate process by our garment care team who specialise in leather and hides, and run two weeks and upwards. Wedding gowns are assessed as restoration work and priced from $190 after inspection. Couture, beaded and heavily constructed pieces go to our couture and delicate route. Curtains, carpets, rugs and bedding are handled as home textiles. Each has its own page, price and timeline.

Yes. We use environmentally friendly cleaning methods built on an organic solvent, recovered, purified and reused in a closed loop rather than released. It is gentle 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 fresh and clean. The larger factor is still that a garment cleaned properly lasts longer, since restoring a piece rather than replacing it saves more than the difference between any two cleaning methods.

It depends entirely on the machine and how it's run. Old dry cleaning equipment released chemicals to the environment; modern systems use closed-loop machines that recover, purify and reuse the solvent. A well-maintained closed-loop machine, a water-based wet-cleaning system, and a garment that stays in use are all more environmentally friendly than a stained garment which ends up in the landfill because it cannot be cleaned properly.