A door handle for a door of a front-loading household appliance, such as a washing machine, a combination washer-dryer, or laundry dryer, which has a drum for laundry treatment and whose loading opening is closable at the front by a door hinged thereto as a ring, includes a gripping element as a handle provided in a lateral region of the ring for closing and opening purposes. The gripping element allows fingertips of a hand to grasp or be introduced into it from both radially outside and radially inside in the lateral region of the ring.