Effective Surface Active Agents for Improving Colorfastness of Reactive Dyeing

Now-a-days consumers are sensible not only for color, style and comfort, but also for quality of product Apparel manufacturers must be a constant endeavour to produce good quality products. Customers make many purchase adoptions based on product color. Therefore, a fabric’s ability to retain its original color is considered as one of the most imperative criteria of a textile product. Dyeing is the crucial step to impart color on fabric and the process of inserting color to textile materials by the treatment with a dye is called dyeing. After dyeing the use of different types of after-treatment agent can change the performance of cloths such as color fastness, fabric handling etc. The aim of this paper is to evaluate the effects of after-treatment agents for improving colorfastness properties of reactive Dye. We have taken Single jersey, (1*1) Rib and Pique fabrics dyed with reactive dye for assessing colorfastness properties. It was observed that the color fastness properties of dyed fabrics were improved by treating with cationic dye fixing agent rather than copper salt, and acetic acid.