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Dylon International is a British brand of textile dye
Dye
A dye is a colored substance that has an affinity to the substrate to which it is being applied. The dye is generally applied in an aqueous solution, and requires a mordant to improve the fastness of the dye on the fiber....

s and other household chemicals. It was founded in 1946 by the Mayborn Group. http://www.mayborngroup.com/Group/history.asp Mayborn Group sold Dylon International to European homecare company Spotless Group
Spotless Group
Spotless Group SAS is a pan-European manufacturer of household cleansing and laundry products, based in Paris, France. Spotless Group has subsidiary operations in 8 European states, employing over 400 people in Ireland, Sweden, Hungary, United Kingdom, France, Spain, Italy and the Netherlands...

 in 2008.

Dye brands include Cold Water Dye, Machine Fabric Dye and Multipurpose Dye.

Cold Water Dye

This a range of textile dyes which are used at low temperatures. They are reactive
Reactive dye
In a reactive dye a chromophore contains a substituent that is activated and allowed to directly react to the surface of the substrate. Reactive dyes have good fastness properties owing to the bonding that occurs during dyeing....

 azo dyes and dichlorotriazine is the main group present. They require cold fix (sodium carbonate
Sodium carbonate
Sodium carbonate , Na2CO3 is a sodium salt of carbonic acid. It most commonly occurs as a crystalline heptahydrate, which readily effloresces to form a white powder, the monohydrate. Sodium carbonate is domestically well-known for its everyday use as a water softener. It can be extracted from the...

) and common salt (sodium chloride
Sodium chloride
Sodium chloride, also known as salt, common salt, table salt or halite, is an inorganic compound with the formula NaCl. Sodium chloride is the salt most responsible for the salinity of the ocean and of the extracellular fluid of many multicellular organisms...

). It comes in 26 colours. http://www.dylon.co.uk/information/brochure/ChemStrc.htm

Machine Fabric Dye

Dylon's machine fabric dye and hand dye both contain reactive
Reactive dye
In a reactive dye a chromophore contains a substituent that is activated and allowed to directly react to the surface of the substrate. Reactive dyes have good fastness properties owing to the bonding that occurs during dyeing....

 azo dyes, triphenylmethane
Triphenylmethane
Triphenylmethane, or triphenyl methane, is the hydrocarbon with the formula 3CH. This colorless solid is soluble in nonpolar organic solvents and not in water. Triphenylmethane has the basic skeleton of many synthetic dyes called triarylmethane dyes, many of them are pH indicators, and some display...

 dyes, sodium carbonate and sodium chloride. The reactive groups are either pyrimidine
Pyrimidine
Pyrimidine is a heterocyclic aromatic organic compound similar to benzene and pyridine, containing two nitrogen atoms at positions 1 and 3 of the six-member ring...

 or vinylsulphone. Machine Fabric Dye comes in 32 colours, Hand Dye in 21 colours. http://www.dylon.co.uk/information/brochure/ChemStrc.htm

Multipurpose Dye

This range contains a mixture of 3 different dyes - direct, acid and disperse
Disperse dye
Disperse dyes are the only water insoluble dyes dyeing polyester and acetate fibers. Disperse dye molecules are the smallest dye molecules among all dyes. A disperse dye molecule has an anthraquinone molecule with nitro, amine or hydroxyl groups attached to it....

. Direct dyes are for cellulose
Cellulose
Cellulose is an organic compound with the formula , a polysaccharide consisting of a linear chain of several hundred to over ten thousand β linked D-glucose units....

 based fabrics, acid dyes for wool
Wool
Wool is the textile fiber obtained from sheep and certain other animals, including cashmere from goats, mohair from goats, qiviut from muskoxen, vicuña, alpaca, camel from animals in the camel family, and angora from rabbits....

 and nylon
Nylon
Nylon is a generic designation for a family of synthetic polymers known generically as polyamides, first produced on February 28, 1935, by Wallace Carothers at DuPont's research facility at the DuPont Experimental Station...

and disperse for some plastics. None of these are reactive dyes and are less wash fast than the other ranges. It comes in 26 colours. http://www.dylon.co.uk/information/brochure/ChemStrc.htm

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