Consumers are increasingly turning to short cycles and cold wash settings to save energy and extend garment life. Syensqo have developed a new grade from their Repel-O-Tex® range called Repel-O-Tex® Crystal Premium, which has been designed to offer improved cold wash performance in modern liquid laundry trends.   

 

Repel-O-Tex® are a range of soil release polymers (SRPs), designed to boost the performance of laundry detergents. The polymers adsorb onto synthetic and mixed cotton fabrics, providing anti-soil incrustation and anti-greying benefits, helping to extend clothes lifetime and keep whites looking whiter for longer. 

 

What is Repel-O-Tex® Crystal Premium?

Repel-O-Tex® Crystal Premium is a next-generation liquid SRP designed for cold wash and short cycle performance. With improved appearance and performance consistency during liquid laundry shelf-life, it is perfectly suited to match the new trends in liquid laundry, enabling anti-stain and malodor control performance using cold wash and short cycles in synthetic fabrics.

 

Key Benefits:

• Designed specifically for cold wash and short cycle liquid laundry
• Transparent liquid – remains clear and stable upon ageing
• Readily biodegradable, REACH compliant, Detergents Ecocert compliant
•  Recommended addition level: 0.5–1.0 wt%

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The Repel-O-Tex® Range at a Glance

Crystal Premium joins an established portfolio. The table below compares the key grades available from HARKE UK & Ireland:

	Main application	Soil release	Whiteness	Cold wash	Stability	Biodeg
Crystal	Liquid, SUD	++	++	+	+	Readily
Crystal Premium	Liquid, SUD	+++	++	++	++	Readily
Crystal NAT	Green liquid	++	++	+	+	Readily
SRP6	Powder	++	++	+	+++	Readily
SF2	High anionic powder, SUD	+++	++	–	+++	Inherently

 

Other Laundry Performance Ingredients

HARKE UK & Ireland also supply a number of complementary ingredients for liquid and powder laundry formulations, including:

• Oxone™ (LANXESS) – a powerful non-chlorine oxidising agent used as a cleaning and bleaching component in laundry and cleaning applications.
• Mirapol® Hygiene Boost (Syensqo) – a specialty polymer that imparts long-lasting malodour control to fabrics without affecting primary detergency.
• Miracare® Biopacify (Syensqo) – a natural, readily biodegradable opacifier for homecare formulations, designed as a sustainable alternative to styrene acrylate copolymers.

 

Next Steps

To find out more about Repel-O-Tex® Crystal Premium, to request samples, or to discuss any of the other ingredients mentioned above, please get in touch with the HARKE UK & Ireland team.