Environmental-friendly wool fabric finishing by some water plant extracts
2007
Smelcerovic, M., Tehnoloski fakultet, Leskovac (Serbia) | Mizdrakovic, M., Tehnoloski fakultet, Leskovac (Serbia) | Djordjevic, D., Tehnoloski fakultet, Leskovac (Serbia)
In this article, environmental-friendly finishing of wool fabric were propossed with several water extract plants, such as hibiscus, St. John wort, and marigold. The plant extracts have good basis in the commercial dyeing of wool, for garment and carpet industry. At the same time, the environmetal-friendly finishing by water extracts plants shows very good fastness of the antimicrobial properties and coloration of wool fabric. From an ecological viewpoint, the substitution of chemical dyes with natural products may represent not only a strategy to reduce risk and pollutants, but also an opportunity for new markets and new business, which can expend involving of ecology in trade policy.
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