This study aims to make clear the soap deposition on cotton and polyester fabrics in washing and rinsing process under the condition of home laundering with powdered soap containing sodium carbonate. The main results obtained are summarized as follows:
1. When polyester and cotton fabrics were laundered together in the same laundering bath with powdered soap, the amount of metal soap deposited on polyester fabrics became larger than that in the case of laundering each fabric separately.
2. These phenomena were concerned with the fact that Na-soap absorbed on cotton fabrics in laundering process was converted into metal soap in rinsing process and that these metal soaps from cotton redeposited on polyester fabrics in the rinsing process.
3. It was found that the amount of metal soap deposited on cotton or polyester fabrics lowered as the concentration of powdered soap in washing solution increased when the hardness of water used kept constant.
4. These phenomena could be explained in terms of the dispersing ability of metal soap due to the Na-soap.
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