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The present invention provides methods for improving the performance of a consumer wrinkle control composition by making the composition available to the consumer and providing information to the consumer concerning the use of the composition to control wrinkles in fabrics without the application of heat. Information may be provided by teaching educational elements and disseminating educational elements to consumers in an efficient, effective, and affordable manner as well as techniques for heightening consumer awareness of the product. The information that is provided to the consumer may concerns the use of the composition to remove or control wrinkles in fabrics without the application of heat, instructions for the proper use of the product, the product's effectiveness, the appearance of the fabric in the finished state after treatment, how the product can be incorporated into the consumer's everyday habits and lifestyles, additional non-wrinkle related benefits that may be achieved with the product and how the composition can be effectively and safely used by most members of the consumer's household. Also provided are methods for prolonging or extending the useful life of fabric items that require frequent and repeated laundering processes and that are prone to cause incremental damage to fabric fibers. The useful life of such fabric items is prolonged by enabling the item to be revitalized or renewed for rewear without laundering, thus reducing the number of launderings and the resulting damage to fabric fibers over a given period of time.

Fabric care compositions comprise aminosilicone having an amino content ratio defined by a ratio of the amine containing units to the total number of units, wherein the amino content ratio is from about 1:11 to about 1:269, emulsifier, and fabric softening active. The aminosilicone materials in fabric care compositions can provide a number of benefits including improved fabric softness, wrinkle reduction after drying, ease of ironing, in-wear shape retention, fabric elasticity, fabric tensile strength, fabric tear strength, and/or color protection. A process of making an aminosilicone emulsion comprises the step of mixing an aminosilicone having an amino content ratio of from about 1:11 to about 1:269 with a cationic emulsifier. The invention further relates to a process of making the fabric care compositions.

Compositions for treating fabric. The compositions of the present invention may be used to improve various properties of fabrics such as the olfactory perception and/or appearance of the fabric without requiring that the fabrics be put through an entire standard laundry process. Methods of treating the fabrics are also disclosed.

A fabric treatment composition that includes at least one zeta potential modifier and a hydrophobic agent with a melting point or glass transition temperature below 100° C. that imparts fabric protection benefits, including improved stain and soil resistance, oil repellency, water repellency, softness, wrinkle and damage resistance, and better handfeel to treated fabrics. Treatment compositions can be used as a pretreatment prior to washing, through soaking, or added to the treatment liquor, that is either the wash or rinse cycle of an automatic washing machine, to first provide and then maintain and restore the beneficial fabric protection benefits imparted to the fabrics during a first treatment operation. The fabric treatment is complete when the fabric is cured by drying and/or heating. Following use of a first treatment composition, protective benefits are maintained and restored by means of a second treatment operation employing a second treatment composition with lower active levels of the protective agents to provide for economical and continual maintenance of the imparted fabric protection benefits through a delivered second fabric treatment benefit with each subsequent treatment operation employing the fabric treatment compositions.

Articles of manufacture and methods for providing energy conserving means to control and/or remove wrinkles from fabric. The article includes an aqueous wrinkle control composition in a package and a set of instructions associated with the package, the set of instructions includes instructions for controlling and/or removing wrinkles in an energy and/or environment conserving manner by applying the composition to wrinkled fabrics, manipulating the fabrics to remove wrinkles and allowing the fabrics to dry without the use of an iron or tumble dryer. Alternatively, the set of instructions can be provided through the electronic or print media or some combination thereof. The instructions can further include an instruction concerning the energy that is conserved through the use of the composition as a substitute for laundering and/or ironing. The instructions can further include a recommendation or endorsement from a government agency, non-profit organization, utility service provider, or some combination thereof.

The present invention relates to a stable, aqueous wrinkle controlling and, optionally, odor-absorbing, composition, preferably for use on fabric. The composition preferably comprises fabric lubricant, shape retention polymer, lithium salts, and/or plasticizers for wrinkle control and, optionally, from about 0.1% to about 20%, by weight of the composition, of solubilized, water-soluble, uncomplexed cyclodextrin. Optionally, the composition can contain low molecular weight polyols; metallic salts to help control odor; nonionic surfactants to improve performance and formulatability, a humectant, etc. The composition is essentially free of any material that would soil or stain fabric. The composition is preferably applied as small particle size droplets, especially from spray containers which preferably are in association with instructions for use, especially when the composition comprises only water and perfume.

The invention relates to a method for preparing a mugwort leaf oil microcapsule antibacterial crease-resistant fabric. The method comprises the following steps of: 1) emulsifying mugwort leaf oil in an emulsifying agent made of wall material; 2) performing complex coagulation reaction on the emulsified mugwort leaf oil; 3) cross-linking and curing the emulsion after the complex coagulation reaction to obtain mugwort leaf oil microcapsule emulsion; 4) adding crease-resistant cross linker, catalyst and penetrating agent into the obtained mugwort leaf oil microcapsule emulsion to prepare a mugwort leaf oil microcapsule antibacterial crease-resistant fabric finishing agent; and 5) treating the fabric by using the prepared mugwort leaf oil microcapsule antibacterial crease-resistant fabric finishing agent to obtain the mugwort leaf oil microcapsule antibacterial crease-resistant fabric. The invention also relates to the mugwort leaf oil microcapsule antibacterial crease-resistant fabric prepared by using the method. The mugwort leaf oil microcapsule antibacterial fabric has antibacterial and anti-inflammatory functions, meanwhile has crease-resistant and ironing-free functions, and has good washing fastness.

There is provided a composition comprising a lubricant, preferably a water-soluble one, and components having a deviation of fabric wrinkle recovery angle versus water of at least +15, whereby the combination imparts in-wear wrinkle resistance to the fabric treated therewith.

The invention discloses a treatment method for antibacterial and anti-ultraviolet cotton fabrics. The treatment method comprises the following steps: step 1, soaking the cotton fabrics with a nonionic surfactant; step 2, modifying the cotton fabrics with chitosan quaternary ammonium salt; step 3, dipping the cotton fabrics with antibacterial finishing liquid prepared by mixing 5-15 parts of a natural antibacterial agent composed of extracts of grape seeds, persimmon leaves, ginkgo leaves and licorice roots, 0.3-1 part of polyoxyethylene-40 hydrogenated castor oil and 1000 parts of water; step 4, soaking the cotton fabrics in a mixed aqueous solution containing 0.001-0.005mol/L of silver nitrate or silver sulfate or silver acetate and 1-3 g/L of soluble starch or hydroxyethyl cellulose to prepare the nano-silver attached antibacterial cotton fabrics. The prepared cotton fabrics not only have good antibacterial performance and anti-ultraviolet performance, but also have performance of resisting oxidation and scavenging free radicals, and have improved anti-wrinkle performance and good washing durability.

The present invention relates to a treatment composition for textile products for use in a drying machine, which contains weight-average molecular weight of 500,000 to 10,000,000 and a method of treatment of textile products, including subjecting textile products treated with the treatment composition for textile products to heat treatment in a heating-type drying machine. Specifically, the present invention relates to a treatment composition for textile products for use in a drying machine, which contains a water-soluble cationic polymer having a weight-average molecular weight of 500,000 to 10,000,000 (referred to hereinafter as component (A)), a water-insoluble cationic polymer (referred to hereinafter as component (B)) and a silicone compound (referred to hereinafter as component (C)), wherein the ratio of component (A) to the total mass of the components (A) and (B) is 3 to 100% by mass and the ratio of the total mass of the components (A) and (B) to the total mass of the components (A), (B) and (C) is 5 to 85% by mass.

A fabric softening composition comprising:(a) a cationic fabric softening compound; and(b) an emulsified silicone.In one aspect the viscosity of the silicone before emulsification is from 10,000 cSt to 1,000,000 cSt, preferably from 30,000 cSt to 750,000 cSt, more preferably from 40,000 cSt to 400,000 cSt, most preferably 45,000 cSt to 250,000 cSt, eg 45,000 cSt to 200,000 cSt and the emulsion is a macro-emulsion. In another aspect, the median silicone droplet size in the emulsion is at least 0.2 mum, preferably at least 0.25 mum, more preferably at least 0.39 mum, preferably also no greater than 25 mum and is emulsified with an emulsifier comprising one or more cationic surfactants.

The present invention relates to a stable, aqueous odor-absorbing composition, preferably for use on inanimate surfaces. The composition comprises from about 0.1% to about 20%, by weight of the composition, of solubilized, water-soluble, uncomplexed cyclodextrin and an effective amount of at least one ingredient to improve the performance of the composition selected from the group consisting of: (1) cyclodextrin compatible surfactant; (2) cyclodextrin compatible antimicrobial active; and (3) mixtures thereof. Hydrophilic perfume improves acceptance. Optionally, the composition can contain low molecular weight polyols; metallic salts to help control odor; a humectant, etc. The composition is essentially free of any material that would soil or stain fabric. The composition is preferably applied as small particle size droplets, especially from spray containers, preferably non-manually operated sprayers. The cyclodextrin/surfactant combination, either alone, or in combination with the other ingredients, provides improved antimicrobial activity.

The invention discloses crease-resistant finishing liquid for cotton fabric and application of the crease-resistant finishing liquid and belongs to textile finishing. The crease-resistant finishing liquid is characterized in that a laccase/TEMPO system is used to oxidize cellulose nanocrystals into aldehyde groups, the aldehyde groups and Girard's reagent T have Schiff base reaction to prepare positive ion modified cellulose nanocrystals, and the modified cellulose nanocrystals, 1,2,3,4-butanetetracarboxylic acid and chitosan are compounded to apply to the crease-resistant finishing of the cotton fabric. The crease-resistant finishing liquid has the advantages that the chitosan and the cellulose nanocrystals used by the finishing liquid are natural biomass materials and can copolymerize with BTCA on cotton fibers under high temperature to generate a long branched chain structure, and accordingly the cotton fabric after finishing has good crease resistance; in addition, by introducing the cellulose nanocrystals and the chitosan, the break strength retention and dyeing performance of the fabric after the crease-resistant finishing are improved, and the fabric is good in washing resistance stability and meets environment protection standards.

The present invention relates to a method of shaping a fibrous material and treatment compositions therefor. The method comprises providing a treatment composition comprising an active agent and a photocatalyst, applying the treatment composition to the fibrous material to form a treated fibrous material, mechanically shaping the treated fibrous material, and exposing the treated fibrous material to electromagnetic radiation. The treatment composition comprises an active agent, wherein the active agent comprises a non-acid carbonyl or an equivalent of non-acid carbonyl; and a photocatalyst.

The invention discloses an antibacterial wash-and-wear fire-retardant finishing liquid which is prepared from the following raw materials in parts by weight: 10-15 parts of glyoxal, 10-15 parts of citric acid, 5-8 parts of cyclic phosphate, 5-8 parts of a licorice extract, 3-5 parts of chitosan, 2-3 parts of magnesium chloride, 2-3 parts of sodium hypophosphite, 1-2 parts of a penetrant, 1-2 parts of a coupling agent, 1-2 parts of a softener, 1-2 parts of ethylene glycol, 1-2 parts of a fiber protecting agent, 1-2 parts of a pH adjusting agent and 1-2 parts of a dispersant. The prepared multifunctional antibacterial finishing liquid is environment-friendly and free of pollution, has good efficacies of being wash-and-wear, shrink-proof, antibacterial and flame-retardant, and can meet the requirements of people on various functional aspects of textiles.

Polyurethaneurea compositions in the form of powders and dispersions are provided for enhancing properties of washed fabric including easy care, better iron gliding, improved shape retention, perfume substantiation and stain management properties.

The invention belongs to the technical field of antibacterial finishing of textiles and particularly relates to a lasting antibacterial and non-ironingfinishing liquid for cotton fabric and a finishing technology. The finishing liquid is compounded from chitosan, Chinese herb extracts, nano-zinc oxide, nano titanium dioxide and other auxiliaries, and chitosan is natural, non-toxic and degradable, has good biocompatibility and excellent antibacterial property, contains a large quantity of active groups such as hydroxyl groups, amino groups and the like on the surface and facilitates crease resistance and shrinkage resistance; An Arabic gum formed film wraps flos lonicerae extract, herba houttuyniae extract, pericarpium granati extract and nano-zinc oxide and nano titanium dioxide antibacterial agents, slow release and lasting antibacterial effects are achieved, chitosan is compounded, so that the cotton fabric is endowed with good crease resistance, non-ironing performance and antibacterial property, and hand feeling, strength and washing fastness of the cotton fabric are improved; the finishing technology adopts double-dip-double-nip process, formaldehyde content meets the standard, the technology is environment-friendly, safe and residue-free, and the finished fabric is good in antibacterial property, durability, crease resistance and non-ironing performance and comfortable to wear.

The invention relates to a production process for a cotton-linen knitted belt. According to the invention, multiple steps of the production process for the cotton-linen knitted belt are improved from multiple aspects, so the produced cotton-linen knitted belt is ensured to be good in elasticity and wear resistance, stable in dimension, small in washing shrinkage, straight, not prone to creasing, easy to wash and fast to dry under dry and wet conditions; the linen component of the knitted belt is capable of preventing ultraviolet rays and suppressing and resisting bacteria; the production process for the cotton-linen knitted belt overcomes the inherent disadvantage of stiff and itchy handle feel of natural fibrilia fabrics; and the prepared cotton-linen knitted belt has a special concave-convex structure, excellent low irritability, moisture permeability and crease resistance, and good indexes like moisture absorption performance and permeability, is knitted by fully natural fiber, is a low-carbon environment-friendly belt, and accords with the current fashionable trend of international textiles and garments.

The invention provides a finishing method of a warp cotton latitudinal double-core-spun non-ironing fabric. The finishing method is characterized in that warp yarns are pure cotton 11.7tex and weft yarns are formed by covering 5%-8% of low-elastic network yarns 105D and 2%-5% of spandex elastic yarns 70D with 90%-95% of pure cotton 14.5tex by mass. A process flow sequentially comprises the following steps: steaming yarns, weaving, turning cloth, singeing, desizing, scouring, bleaching, mercerizing, treating with liquid ammonia, carrying out wet crosslinking, piling, washing with water, tentering, pre-shrinking and checking. The yarns are subjected to high-temperature yarn steaming and part of stress of the spandex elastic yarns is released; in a dyeing and finishing process, machining and dry sizing are not carried out, and the problems that the fabric becomes yellow, the elasticity is low, edges are curled and the like can be improved; and after the fabric is washed with the water for 30 times under an AATCC 124 method through a wet crosslinking finishing technology, the appearance can reach more than or equal to 3.5 grades and the elasticity reaches more than or equal to 20% under an ASTM D3107-2011 method. The fabric treated by the method is soft and comfortable to wear, has moderate elasticity and good recovery, and has a good non-ironing effect.

The present invention relates to a stable, aqueous odor-absorbing composition, preferably for use on inanimate surfaces. The composition comprises from about 0.1 % to about 20 %, by weight of the composition, of solubilized, water-soluble, uncomplexed cyclodextrin and an effective amount of at least one ingredient to improve the performance of the composition selected from the group consisting of: (1) cyclodextrin compatible surfactant; (2) cyclodextrin compatible antimicrobial active; and (3) mixtures thereof. Hydrophilic perfume improves acceptance. Optionally, the composition can contain low molecular weight polyols; metallic salts to help control odor; a humectant, etc. The composition is essentially free of any material that would soil or stain fabric. The composition is preferably applied as small particle size droplets, especially from spray containers. The cyclodextrin/surfactant combination, either alone, or in combination with the other ingredients, provides improved antimicrobial activity.