Effect of clothes Softeners on functional performance properties of the processed fabrics to resist both of wrinkles and growth of bacteria

                This research aims to conduct a pilot study to demonstrate the effect of fabric softeners on the functional performance properties of the processed fabrics to resist both of wrinkles and growth of bacteria by using three types of softeners with trade names "Downey, Comfort and Velveta" at three concentrations 0.2%, 0.4% and 0.6%, for each of them. Then some of the laboratory tests were carried out on fabrics produced and analyzed statistically using the contrast bidirectional analysis, mean and less significant difference (LSD), and the results showed that the Comfort is the best softener impact on weight per square meter with a mean of about 338.17 and 318.42 of the cloth produced to resist wrinkling and bacterial growth respectively, and that the tensile strength weakened as a result of the use of softeners and least influential Comfort cloth prepared to resist wrinkling reaching the mean about 125.25 and 91.50 of the warp and weft respectively, and Downey cloth prepared to resist the bacterial growth with a mean of about 105 of the warp and weft, respectively. Velveta more influential on the corner of wrinkling of fabric treated to resist wrinkling with a mean of about 96.25 and 112 of the warp and weft, respectively, for the cloth prepared to resist growth of bacteria with mean of about 88.75 and 111 of the warp and weft in a row, and that Downey was the best conditioner for the surface roughness of the cloth to resist wrinkling where the mean was about 17.06 and improved surface roughness of cloth to resist the growth of bacteria with a mean of about 14.80 and Velveta was the best conditioner for the degree of whiteness of the cloth prepared to resist wrinkling and growth of bacteria reaching the mean 168.37 and 147.48 respectively