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Colour care is a developing area in detergents that has gathered pace over the last decade. Formulations are based upon heavy-duty detergents, through omission of ingredients, optimisation of existing ingredients for colour care and the addition of new ingredients. Get the complete low-down on how colour care in detergents has advanced from heavy-duty detergents, the analysis of colourcare mechanisms and agents, and the latest technology trends and patents that have evolved from these.
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- Current colour protection methods and the chemistry of colour protection
- Analysis of the latest patents and emerging technology trends
- A comparison of commercially available detergents with colour-care agents
A General Overview of Detergent Components
- Surfactants: How do surfactants work?
- Surfactants or surface active agents
- Properties of surfactants
- Adsorption
- Self assembly
- Dispersing polymers
- Builders and chelants
- Detergent boosters
- Form
- Laundry cleaning additives properties
- Detergent fillers
- Bleaches and compounds
- Types of bleaches
- Chlorine bleach
Powdered Detergent Vs. Liquid Detergents
Colour Care
- What causes discoloration of clothes?
- Laundry bleaches
- Sodium hypochlorite bleach
- Oxygen bleach
- Colour removers
- Towards colour protection - use of oxygen bleaches
- What are oxygen bleaches?
- Advantages of powdered oxygen bleach
- Disadvantages of powdered oxygen bleaches
- Liquid oxygen bleaches
- Differences in oxygen bleaching products
- Ultra-concentrated oxygen bleaches
- Concentrated oxygen bleaches
- Oxygen bleaches with additives and other cleaning agents
- Cleaning products that contain oxygen bleach as an ingredient
- Sodium perborate - the most commonly used bleaching agent used in detergents
- The chemistry of sodium perborate bleaching
- Activating sodium perborate for low temperature performance
- Pre-soak practices
- Beyond activators: metal catalysis
- The parameters of peroxygen bleaching
- New physical forms of perborate
- The peroxy compound choice
- Storage stability
- Non-oxidative bleaching
- Liquid formulations for fabric laundering
- Fabric care
- Chlorine scavenging
- Gentler hydrophobics
Colour Protection Agents
- Chemicals used for colour care
- Patented technologies/compounds
Dye Transfer Inhibition
- What is dye bleeding?
- Causes of dye bleeding
- What can be done?
- Conclusion
- The most commonly used DTI agent: polyvinylpyrrolidone (PVP)
- DTI products by International Specialty Products
Industry Overview