Multifunctional finish and cotton cellulose fabric

Some commercial textile softeners were incorporated during the finishing of cotton fabrics with citric acid (CA) leading to alteration in performance properties of that fabrics. The obtained results showed that finishing of these fabrics with 80 g/l of aqueous CA in presence of 20 g/l of silicone micro emulsion (SME) followed by drying at 85 °C for 3 min, cured at 180 °C for 90 s resulted in crosslinking as well as an improvement in some performance properties of those fabrics such as nitrogen content, resiliency, tear strength and softness of the finished fabrics accompanied with decreasing of the whiteness indices and absorbency of that fabrics. Moreover, infrared spectrum as well as TGA analysis of CA/SME finished fabrics was investigated. Furthermore, the CA/SME finished fabrics were able to keep the Rosemary, Jasmine, Lavender and vanillin perfumes upon storing up to 3 months or after ten repeating washing cycles.