Laundering process for whitening synthetic textiles

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PATENT NO 8556993
APP PUB NO 20090293210A1
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11922070

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The present invention relates to the use of a combination of a free fluorescent whitening agent and cationic polymer as a brightening agent for a synthetic single or blended textile, especially polyester textile, and to a corresponding brightening agent as well as a laundering process for brightening a synthetic, single or blended textile, which is characterized by a) preparing a composition by contacting a free fluorescent whitening agent with a cationic polymer, and b) treating said synthetic, single or blended textile with the composition prepared in step a).

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BASF SEGERMANY

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Becherer, Oliver Schwörstadt, DE 11 14
Hochberg, Robert Merzhausen, DE 20 34
Scheffler, Goetz Grenzach-Wyhlen, DE 9 11
Schlatter, René Lörrach, DE 1 1
Schultz, Bernard St. Louis, FR 8 67

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