What role does silicone oil play in the textile industry?
Silicone oil is often found in shampoo, conditioner, cosmetics, and skincare products. Many people's understanding of silicone oil ends here, but in fact, silicone oil is not only used for washing and care products, but also has a wide range of applications in the textile industry.
Silicone oil can be used as a fabric softener, lubricant, waterproofing agent, finishing agent, and so on in the textile and clothing industry. In order to meet the high-end demand for textiles, chemical product manufacturers are constantly developing silicone oil that can be used in baths with various functional additives such as waterproofing agents, flame retardants, anti-static agents, and fixing agents, and has a good hand feel.
In addition, in order to improve fabric performance, there are also silicone products that can be used in the same bath as dyeing, cotton silicone oil that has a cool feeling, silicone products that can improve fabric feel, and silicone darkening agents that can endow fabrics with excellent darkening effect, good storage stability, no impact on color fastness, and good hand feel.
In addition to being used as additives in textiles to achieve functionalization, organic silicon products will also be applied in other fields of textiles, such as the combination of organic silicon and polyurethane to form coatings on fabrics; Printing of fabrics formed by polymerization of organosilicon and acrylic acid; The combination of organic silicon and organic fluorine forms a waterproof coating on the surface of fabrics.
The above is an introduction to the role of silicone oil in the textile industry. Finally, there are two points to note. Silicone oil can be divided into primary and secondary products according to its processing conditions.
The former refers to silicone oil products before processing, including four categories: hydroxyl silicone oil, silicon functional silicone oil, carbon functional silicone oil, and non active modified silicone oil. Among these four categories, the first two are commonly referred to as linear silicone oils, while the latter two are called modified silicone oils.
Secondary silicone oil products refer to the products such as creams, lotion and solutions, such as silicone grease, silicone paste, defoamer, mold release agent and isolating agent, which are made from silicone oil with thickeners, surfactants, solvents and additives and processed by specific processes.