Silicone Softener

Introduction

POWSIL™-63001 is especially designed to deliver a greasy, moisturized and silky hand feel to most types of fabrics at lower use level than traditional silicone softeners.

POWSIL™-63001 can impart elastomeric property to the most fabric based on its novel functional silicone copolymer.

Benefits

• Imparts natural greasy, moisturized, bulk and silky softness

• Excellent fiber elasticity and shape recovery

• Provides excellent dispersion/spreading and penetration properties on fibers

• Superiorly durable softness to laundering

• Shear stable formulations

• Easy to make micro-emulsions

• Outstandingly exhaustible to natural fibers

• Suitable for padding and exhaustion finish process

• Non or less oil spots when applying emulsions on fabric

• Excellent affinity on all types of textile

• Re-dyeable & over dyeable

Typical Physical Properties

Applications

POWSIL™-63001 is a silicone oil that requires emulsification before application in the textile finishing process, rather than being applied directly to fabrics. Emulsifying POWSIL™-63001 is notably easier than emulsifying other silicone oil typically used in textile softeners.

• Formulation

*TDE-3: Tridecyl Alcohol 3EO ethoxylated

AEO-3: Fatty alcohol ethoxylated with 3 EO

TDE-12: Tridecyl Alcohol 12EO ethoxylated

AEO12: Fatty alcohol ethoxylated with 12 EO

• Procedures:

1) Stir POWSIL™-63001 content in container to make it homogeneous before taking out for use;

2) Charge POWSIL™-63001, butylcarbitol and emulsifiers into a mixer, and then stir the contents at moderate speed for 10-30 min till fully homogeneous;

3) Premix acetic acid and water;

4) Slowly add the acidic water into above content;

5) Continue to stir about 10-30 min after all additions;

6) Clear micro-emulsion should be obtained at the end of this procedure;

7) Filter before packing, if necessary.

The Example of Application of 25% POWSIL™-63001:

25% POWSIL™-63001 can be used as received or pre-diluted with water before application. The optimal treatment depends on the desired softness of the fabric and yarn after dyeing and finishing.

• 1. Pad-dry-cure process

• 2. Exhaustion process

• 3. Garment washing process