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- Title
Bacteria-resist finish on cotton fabrics using natural herbal extracts.
- Authors
Sarkar, R. K.; De, Purushottam; Chauhan, P. D.
- Abstract
The bacteria-resist properties of various natural medicinal products, like clove oil, neem oil, tulsi oil and karanja oil, have been studied. Among these products, the clove and neem oils show good anti-bacterial property; clove oil shows excellent anti-bacterial property on cotton fabric. The wash fastness of finished cotton fabric can be improved by using KVSI (Dimethylol dihydroxyethylene urea based in-built catalyst) as cross-linking agent. The effect of anti-bacterial finish on other functional fabric properties has also been studied and it is observed that 1% clove oil + KVSI treatment gives the optimum results.
- Subjects
COTTON textiles; TEXTILE finishing; PLANT extracts; ANTIBACTERIAL agents
- Publication
Indian Journal of Fibre & Textile Research, 2003, Vol 28, Issue 3, p322
- ISSN
0971-0426
- Publication type
Article