SOFTENER FOR TEXTILE FIBER

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain a softener capable of imparting various textile products with excellent flexibility and favorable touch feeling and both water and sweat absorptivity. SOLUTION: This softener (composition) comprises >=50 wt.% of a neutralized product or quaternarized product, unreacted product(s) and byproduct glycerol, wherein the neutralized product is formed by reaction of amine(s) of chemical formula(1): NH2 CH2 CH3 NHCH2 CH2 XH and/or chemical formula(2): N2 CH2 CH2 CH2 NI1 R2 with a natural animal/vegetable fat-and-oil or a hardened oil thereof under such conditions as to substantially suppress the formation of imidazoline at <=20 wt.% followed by neutralizing the resultant amiclation reaction product with an inorganic or organic acid, while the quaternarized product is formed by quaternarizing the above amidation reaction product with a lower alkyl halide or a lower dialkyl sulfate.