Wash Hands

The wash-hands icon represents hand hygiene, often used in health and medical contexts to promote cleanliness and prevent the spread of diseases. This icon is vital for encouraging good hygiene practices. Its design aims to be straightforward and recognizable.

In real-world applications, the wash-hands icon may appear in healthcare settings, public health campaigns, or educational materials to promote hand hygiene. For instance, it could be used in a hospital to remind staff and visitors to wash their hands.

From a UX perspective, the wash-hands icon communicates the importance of hand hygiene, helping users understand the significance of cleanliness in preventing the spread of diseases. Its use can enhance user awareness and promote good hygiene practices.

Wash Hands is one of 2,691 icons in Health Icons, made by Resolve to Save Lives and released under MIT. It is drawn on a 48 × 48 grid.

Sign in (it's free), then open Get icon, Install with shadcn CLI, and pick your package manager to copy the command. It adds WashHandsIcon to components/icons/healthicons-wash-hands.tsx: one file, a size prop (24 by default) and every SVG prop, with no icon package.

Copy it as React (from Get icon, or the Code section): a typed WashHandsIcon component you paste into your project, with no package to install. Only the icons you import reach your bundle. It works in Next.js and any React app.

Open Get icon, then Copy as code, and pick Vue, Svelte, Angular, Solid or Preact; the Code section shows each one too. Every version is one self-contained component with the SVG inside, and SVG and data URL copies are there for plain HTML and CSS.

With Pro, the shadcn.io MCP server lets Claude Code, Cursor or any MCP client find the Wash Hands icon, or any of 2,691 Health Icons icons, and install it from a prompt.

It's drawn in currentColor, so it takes the text color wherever you use it: a class like text-primary recolors it. To bake a color in, set one in Customize before you copy.

Set width and height on the component, or a class like size-6. It's drawn on a 48 × 48 grid, so it stays sharp at any size. Customize also sets the size it exports at, its padding and rotation.

Yes. It follows the text color, so with text-foreground (or any theme token) it changes with your light and dark themes. The icon is a vector, so it needs no separate dark asset.

Next to a visible label it's decoration: add aria-hidden="true" so screen readers skip it. Standing alone, as in an icon button, give the button a name instead, like aria-label="Wash Hands", so screen readers say what it does.

Yes. WashHandsIcon passes every SVG prop to the svg element, so <WashHandsIcon aria-hidden="true" /> works, and so do role="img" with aria-label, or a title child, when it carries meaning on its own.

Yes. Open Get icon, then Download file: SVG for code or design tools like Figma; PNG, WebP or JPEG at 512px; or an ICO favicon with 16, 32 and 48px inside. Each one uses what you set in Customize.

Yes. MIT allows commercial use; keep the license notice when you ship the icons' source files. The full terms are in the license, linked on this page.

No visible credit is required: MIT only asks that you keep the license notice if you ship the icons' source files. Icons installed with the shadcn CLI already start with a comment naming Health Icons, Resolve to Save Lives and the license.

Yes. Copying and downloading it is free, and the shadcn CLI install only needs a free account.

1 other library draws an icon called Wash Hands. The Other libraries section on this page shows each one, so you can compare them and open the one that fits your style.

Its tags are medical, health, safety, hygiene, prevention and cleanliness. Each tag page lists the icons that carry it from every library, which is the quickest way to find a match for Wash Hands in another set.

Health Icons draws many icons in several styles: Outline next to the default. Open the library and pick a style above the grid to see Wash Hands's siblings in it.