Quoting%20commentary for Moed Katan 3:2

וְאֵלּוּ מְכַבְּסִין בַּמּוֹעֵד, הַבָּא מִמְּדִינַת הַיָּם, וּמִבֵּית הַשִּׁבְיָה, וְהַיּוֹצֵא מִבֵּית הָאֲסוּרִים, וְהַמְנֻדֶּה שֶׁהִתִּירוּ לוֹ חֲכָמִים, וְכֵן מִי שֶׁנִּשְׁאַל לְחָכָם וְהֻתַּר, מִטְפְּחוֹת הַיָּדַיִם וּמִטְפְּחוֹת הַסַּפָּרִים וּמִטְפְּחוֹת הַסְּפָג, הַזָּבִין וְהַזָּבוֹת וְהַנִּדּוֹת וְהַיּוֹלְדוֹת, וְכָל הָעוֹלִין מִטֻּמְאָה לְטָהֳרָה, הֲרֵי אֵלּוּ מֻתָּרִין. וּשְׁאָר כָּל אָדָם, אֲסוּרִין:

And these may wash clothing on Chol Hamoed: One who returns from abroad, one who is freed from captivity, one who is freed from prison, one who is released from excommunication by the sages; likewise, one consulted a sage [on Chol Hamoed] and was absolved of his vow [not to wash clothing.] (These may be washed:) hand towels [for cleaning the hands while eating], barbers' sheets, [which must be regularly washed when the barber comes to shave those mentioned in our Mishnah as being permitted to shave on Chol Hamoed], and bath towels, [with which one dries himself when he leaves the bathhouse.] Zavin (men with a genital discharge), zavoth, niddoth, women who have just given birth, and all who ascend from uncleanliness to cleanliness [on Chol Hamoed] are permitted [to wash their clothing], and all others are forbidden (to do so). [And all flaxen garments may be washed on Chol Hamoed in that they require constant washing. Even those washed on the eve of the festival become sullied immediately and must be washed in the midst of the festival, for which reason they were not decreed against. And if one has only one robe, even if it is not of flax, he may wash it on Chol Hamoed. This, when he is standing bare (-chested) while washing it, in his leggings alone to cover his privy parts, demonstrating thereby that he has only one robe, the one he is washing.]

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