Laundry care appliance with an outer tub for accommodating washing liquid, a laundry drum for accommodating laundry, wherein the laundry drum is arranged in the outer tub, wherein the laundry drum has a plurality of protrusions, which are embodied to move the laundry accommodated in the laundry drum during rotation of the laundry drum, a drum drive for rotating the laundry drum, a weight detection facility, which is embodied to detect a weight of laundry accommodated in the laundry drum, and a controller for controlling the drum drive, characterised in that the controller is embodied to activate the drum drive during a first operating mode to rotate the laundry drum at a first rotational speed, when the weight of the laundry detected by the weight detection facility falls below a weight limit value, wherein the first rotational speed is lower than a contacting rotational speed of the laundry drum, at which the laundry accommodated in the laundry drum is in contact with the rotating laundry drum, so that the laundry is not in contact with the laundry drum during the first operating mode, but rather falls away from the laundry drum and as a result is effectively wetted by the washing liquid, to activate the drum drive during a second operating mode to rotate the laundry drum at a second rotational speed, when the weight of the laundry detected by the weight detection facility exceeds the weight limit value, wherein the second rotational speed is greater than the contacting rotational speed of the laundry drum, so that the laundry is in contact with the laundry drum during the second operating mode and at the same time, due to the rotation of the laundry drum at the second rotational speed, as a result of the protrusions present in the laundry drum, generates turbulences in the washing liquid that cause an effective wetting of the laundry in contact with the laundry drum, and to select the first operating mode or the second operating mode as a function of the detected weight of the laundry. to activate the drum drive during a first operating mode to rotate the laundry drum at a first rotational speed, when the weight of the laundry detected by the weight detection facility falls below a weight limit value, wherein the first rotational speed is lower than a contacting rotational speed of the laundry drum, at which the laundry accommodated in the laundry drum is in contact with the rotating laundry drum, so that the laundry is not in contact with the laundry drum during the first operating mode, but rather falls away from the laundry drum and as a result is effectively wetted by the washing liquid, to activate the drum drive during a second operating mode to rotate the laundry drum at a second rotational speed, when the weight of the laundry detected by the weight detection facility exceeds the weight limit value, wherein the second rotational speed is greater than the contacting rotational speed of the laundry drum, so that the laundry is in contact with the laundry drum during the second operating mode and at the same time, due to the rotation of the laundry drum at the second rotational speed, as a result of the protrusions present in the laundry drum, generates turbulences in the washing liquid that cause an effective wetting of the laundry in contact with the laundry drum, and to select the first operating mode or the second operating mode as a function of the detected weight of the laundry.