The invention belongs to the technical field of garment treatment equipment and discloses the garment treatment equipment and a control method of a control panel thereof. The control method includes that the control panel performs face recognition and judges whether a whole face is recognized or not; if not, the control panel rotates and performs face recognition and judgment during rotating; if yes, the control panel stops rotating. The garment treatment equipment uses the control method. Through completeness of face recognition, rotating of the control panel is adjusted to enable facing direction of the control panel to be matched with sight line of a user, in this way, the user can adopt comfortable posture to observe and operate the control panel, and the garment treatment equipment isreliable in adjustment and convenient to use.