EFFECT OF DIFFERENT COMMERCIAL BRANDS OF SOAPS AND DETERGENTS ON THE WASH FASTNESS PROPERTIES OF DIFFERENT COMMERCIAL BRANDS OF FABRICS (WRAPPERS/AFRICA PRINT)
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Sequel to the problems associated with fabrics (wrappers) -colour fastness to washing and the continued need to seek out the best ways of minimizing them, the effect of different commercial brands of soaps and detergents on quality performance of six (6) selected fabrics (wrappers) to laundry were investigated. In the analysis two treatments were employed i.e. ISOs and ISO4. The results showed that the samples exhibited better wash fastness properties towards the soaps for IS03 treatments than for IS04 treatments. The order of performance of the soaps for IS03 treatments is S5> S6>S8>S4>S3> S2 while for IS04 treatments the order of performance of the soaps is S3>S2>S5>SI0 respectively. Samples W6.W1, \V3,W5 shows excellent wash fastness properties for IS03 treatments while S2,SI0,S3 and S5 soaps gave the highest wash fastness for samples \VJ,W2,\V3,W5 and W6 for IS04 treatments respectively. For the detergents, however, the wash fastness can be rated moderate, but D2 and D4 detergents gave the highest wash fastness properties for IS03 treatments, but for IS04 treatments, the wash fastness can be rated very poor the samples gave low wash fastness values i.e. there was bleeding of the dyes from the fabrics - fading occurs. It is therefore recommended that the soaps end detergents mentioned above could be used for washing fabrics (wrappers) with IS03