Abstract: Compositions are provided for spray dyeing of a cellulosic, such as cotton, fabric or garment. The compositions include a reactive dye, a wetter, an alkali, and water. The present compositions are made by first mixing the reactive dye, the wetter, and the water to form a solution, and thereafter adding the alkali to the solution.

Abstract: A method of making a composition for spray application onto surfaces of a cotton fabric includes mixing together a wetter, a reactive dye and water to form a first solution, adding a thickener into the first solution for between about five minutes and sixty minutes to form a partial composition, and adding an alkali with the partial composition to complete the composition.

Abstract: A process for introducing additives into a polymer melt comprising dispersing at least one additive in an at least partially volatile liquid vehicle with a dispersant and a stabilizer for the dispersion; feeding the resulting dispersion to a vented extruder which is extruding a polymer; and removing the fed volatiles through the extruder vent to achieve a substantially homogeneous system containing the polymer and at least one additive is disclosed.

Abstract: Synthetic fibers and synthetic fiber textile materials finished with mineral oil finishes, silicone oil finishes or both can be simultaneously stripped of these finishes and dyed in one liquor comprising as essential ingredientsa) anionic and/or amphoteric surfactants,b) dyes, andc) optionally further compounds selected from the group consisting of the nonionic surfactants, the terpene hydrocarbons/alcohols, sorbitol esters and their alkoxylates, fatty acid ethanolamides, alkylpolyglycosides and solvents.The treatment is carried out at pH 4.0 to 7.5 at 80-110.degree. C. and at a liquor ratio of 5:1 to 100:1.

Abstract: Cellulosic textiles are printed or dyed with multiple hook reactive dyes without fabric hand harshening on using a reactive dye preparation containing 0.5 to 10% by weight of a surfactant and 0 to 10% by weight of an antifoaming agent.

Abstract: A hair tinting shampoo in an aqueous medium having good lathering properties, excellent color adsorptive capacity and outstanding skin compatibility contains at least one direct, semi-permanent hair dye and at least one anionic surfactant comprising at least 25% by wt., calculated to the total quantity of the anionic surfactant, of an alkyl amidoether carboxylic acid of the general formula I ##STR1## wherein R denotes an alkyl group from 8 to 18 carbon atoms, and n is a number between 1 and 10, and (or) water-soluble salts thereof.

Abstract: Water insoluble or sparingly soluble dyestuffs such as disperse dyes as concentrates for making up dyebaths or for use as printing pastes, and optical brightening agents for laundry detergents are formulated as stable suspensions in aqueous structured surfactants.

Abstract: A dyeing aid composition containing 1 to 60% by weight of a surfactant selected from (a) C.sub.8-24 alkyl or alkenyl alcohol sulfate, C.sub.14-18 alkane sulfonate and C.sub.10-14 alkyl benzenesulfonate; (b) castor oil containing 20-50 mols ethylene oxide, alkoxylated C.sub.8-24 alkyl or alkenyl alcohols, and alkoxylated C.sub.8-12 alkylphenols; from about 1 to about 25% by weight of sulfated hydroxyalkyl alkylpolyalkylene glycol ether corresponding to formula I ##STR1## in which R is a C.sub.1-6 alkyl radical, R.sup.1 is a C.sub.6-8 alkyl radical, M is an alkali metal or, ammonium cation, n=2 or 3 and x is a number of about 2 to about 10; and from about 1 to about 30% by weight of C.sub.

Abstract: An aqueous cleaning composition comprising a surfactant; up to about 50% of a higher boiling solvent, typically an alkyl ether of an alkylene glycol, said solvent introducing impurities into the composition in an amount and of a nature normally chemically incompatible with oxidizable dye chromophores; a dye in an amount to provide a desired tinctorial value, and a stabilizer selected from the group consisting of salts suitable to provide iodide and thiosulfate anions in an amount effective to retard fading of the dye, said compositions having a basic pH when the stabilizer is the thiousulfate salt. In another aspect of the invention, the stabilizer incorporated into compositions containing a solvent, a surfactant, and water, and optionally a dye provides a beneficial cleaning result. In yet another aspect of the invention, the stabilizer beneficially retards the development of malodors when the compositions of the present invention are contained in a PVC container.

Abstract: The alkaline reoxidation of vat and sulfur vat dyes by means of hydrogen peroxide is difficult to control and to keep constant. By using agents which split off hypochlorite in the heat, for example sodium N-chloro-p-toluenesulfonamide, at pH values above 8 it is possible according to the invention even to reoxidize reliably combinations of these dyes having different oxidation behaviors. At the same time it became possible to combine the necessary soaping process with reoxidation.

Abstract: A process is described for dyeing hydrophobic fibre material with unfinished disperse dyes from an aqueous liquor, which comprises dissolving one or more such dyes in water at a temperature of 50.degree. to 150.degree. C. by means of a surfactant or surfactant mixture with a hydrotroping or solubilizing action on disperse dyes, bringing the dye solution together with the substrate in a dyeing apparatus, then heating the dyeing liquor to the dyeing temperature and completing the dyeing at that temperature and then removing the substrate and restoring the exhausted dyeing liquor to the original composition by adding water, surfactant and dye and using it again for dyeing.

Abstract: The invention relates to solid formulations of metal complex dyes, which formulations are obtained by dissolving or suspending at least one metal complex dye in water with the addition of an anionic dispersant or mixture of dispersants, and 1 to 20% by weight, based on the final formulation, of a non-ionic ethylene oxide adduct having a molecular weight of 200 to 5000, and optionally further ingredients, subsequently mixing the components and spray drying the solution or suspension.Such formulations are readily wettable and have a cold water dispersibility of .gtoreq.30 g/l.

Abstract: A process for dyeing or printing sized textiles comprising applying to the sized substrate a dyeing liquor or a printing paste which contains, in addition to the dyestuffs(i) a compound or a mixture of compounds selected from compounds having solubilizing, washing, emulsifying, dispersing or dye fixation accelerating properties, and(ii) a textile size or a mixture of textile sizes.

Abstract: A process for dyeing or finishing textile fibre material using foam, which process comprises applying to said materials an aqueous foam composition which, in addition to containing dye or finishing agent, contains a foamable system comprising water and at least(A) an anionic surfactant and(B) a non-ionic block polymer based on ethylene oxide and propylene oxide units.The material is then dried, if desired, and then subjected to a heat treatment, preferably a steam treatment. Level dyeings with good penetration of dye and/or excellent finishes are obtained on the material.

Abstract: The readily dispersible dye preparations contain water, one or more dyes insoluble or difficultly soluble in water, a nonionic dispersing agent and optionally further additives, and as anionic dispersing agent:(a) a dialkylsulfosuccinate, the alkyl groups of which each contain 3-7 carbon atoms, or(b) a sulfated or sulfonated fatty acid or fatty acid ester of a fatty acid having in each case 10 to 22 carbon atoms, or(c) a fatty amine-oxalkylation product of the formula ##STR1## wherein Q is an aliphatic hydrocarbon radical having 12-22 carbon atoms,M is hydrogen, an alkali metal cation, ammonium cation or amine salt cation, andm and n are integers, the sum of m+n being at least 2 and at most 50.These preparations are suitable for use in aqueous and also organic printing inks.There are also described aqueous printing pastes which contain lignosulfonate, in addition to the anionic dispersing agents listed under (a), (b) and (c).

Abstract: A process of dyeing textile fibres in which the fibre is contacted with a two-phase suspension comprising an active solvent containing dissolved dye and the necessary amount of a bulking inert substantially immiscible solvent, the active solvent under the conditions of dyeing being liquid, is a solvent for the dye, is insoluble or only slightly soluble in the inert solvent, and in which the fixation affinity of the fibre for the dye is greater than that of the active solvent for the dye at the temperature required for the fixation, wherein the dye used is in the form of an aqueous, stable, highly concentrated, finely dispersed, flowable preparation insoluble to difficultly soluble in water containing at least 25% of finely dispersed dyestuff, at most 10% of an anion-active dispersing agent, at most 5% of a non-ionic dispersing agent and from 0 to 35% of a hydrotropic agent.

Abstract: A novel process for the continuous dyeing of cellulose textile material with anionic substantive dyes is disclosed. The process consists initially in applying to the cellulose material an aqueous liquor which, in addition to the dye, contains(A) 2.5 to 15 g/l of an etherified N-methylolmelamine,(B) an acid catalyst and at least one of the components(C) an anionic surfactant,(D) a non-ionic surfactant and(E) an organic solvent which boils above 140.degree. C.The material is then dried, if desired, and subsequently subjected to a heat treatment. An increase in dye yield of 100 to 400% is obtained with this process in continuous dyeing, especially in a pad-thermofix process. The dyeings are level and have excellent wetfastness and lightfastness properties.