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Softeners

Enhance textile softness with Momentive’s silicone solutions

Silicone textile softeners are widely used to enhance the softness, smoothness, and drape of fabrics by altering the friction coefficients of fibers, reducing resistance, and improving the overall feel of the fabric. They also replenish natural oils lost during processing, further enhancing the hand feel of textiles.

Products like Momentive’s Magnasoft™ and Nuwet™ can improve fabrics appearance by delivering a more uniform and polished look. Moreover, silicone softeners maintain their stability under various processing conditions and can ensure consistent performance.

Our silicone softeners can also provide customized hydrophilicity, allowing fabrics to have tailored moisture-wicking properties. Their versatility, effectiveness, and eco-friendly formulations make them a preferred choice in the textile industry, as they can offer an environmentally conscious option for fabric treatment.

Overall, silicone textile softeners play a vital role in enhancing fabric quality, performance, and longevity.

Key benefits offered by our solutions

  • Smoothness and soft hand-feel: siloxane backbone provides the signature slickness, smoothness, and soft touch associated with silicone-based softeners.
 
  • Tailored functionality: amino or quat functionality allows customization of surface affinity, bulky touch, and antistatic properties for each softener grade.
 
  • Effective at low use levels: the linear molecular structure of our softening agents enhances surface coverage and penetration, allowing efficiency even at low concentrations. This enables cost-effective use while maintaining high-quality results and reducing the overall chemical load on the fabric.
 
  • Customizable hydrophilicity: polyether blocks can be adjusted to tailor moisture-wicking properties, enabling fabrics to meet specific performance requirements, whether for high moisture management in activewear or moderate hydrophilicity in casual wear.
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Magnasoft™ textile enhancers

At Momentive, we understand that achieving the perfect level of softness in textiles requires innovative solutions. Our expert chemists have developed powerful textile enhancers using linear [AB]n silicone copolymer technology.

Whether you're looking for a voluminous and bulky feel, a smooth drape, or silky softness, our advanced textile enhancers can deliver the desired consumer-recognized effects across a wide range of applications.

In addition to enhancing fabric softness, our silicone-based textile enhancers are water-dispersible, dilutable, and provide excellent shear and alkaline stability, even at low usage levels, improving processing efficiency.

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