Identification Of "Mint Fiber" Textiles

With the continuous development of science and technology, with the application of plant fiber in clothing and textiles, there are various kinds of clothing and textiles that contain "a certain plant".

Recently, a variety of "MINT" products have appeared on the market. Xiaobian has opened a shopping website, "Mint fiber" underwear, "Mint fiber" children's clothing, and "peppermint fiber" bed products are sold in large quantities on the Internet.

Most of these "peppermint" products clearly indicate the smell of mint, which prompts consumers: This product is made from peppermint. In fact, is this really the case? For this reason, the reporter has specifically contacted the only producer of mint fiber, Qingdao Bai Cao Fiber Technology Co., Ltd., in which we met, Professor Yu Hu Sheng, a patent inventor of mint fiber and textile and clothing College of Qiingdao University, consulted him about the knowledge of peppermint textile materials.

Peppermint is a well-known natural plant. It has the functions of cool, striking, refreshing and so on. People know and use peppermint. These effects have a long history. Using peppermint, these peppermint products are widely used in medicinal materials, food additives, cosmetics and personal care products.

In addition, peppermint has a unique aroma.

People often identify Mint by special odors.

According to Professor Yu, peppermint is mainly composed of two ingredients. One is menthol which can emit peppermint odour. It is also an important constituent of peppermint essential oil. The other is peppermint with special refreshing effects such as refreshing, antiseptic and anti-inflammatory, while menthone is tasteless.

When we use peppermint, its special aroma is hard to retain because of its rapid volatilization.

Let's take a simple example. We often eat peppermint gum, which is coated with a layer of tin foil. The purpose is to prevent the volatilization of peppermint as much as possible. But when we open the tin foil and eat peppermint, the smell of peppermint is not very obvious. But when chewing, there is a sense of coolness of peppermint.

The same is true in clothing and textiles. The real garments and textiles made of menthol fibers do not smell like mint.

What is the smell of peppermint in the market?

Peppermint odour can be done in two ways: first, after the clothing finishing process or before sales, spray the peppermint essential oil onto the surface of the garment, and then seal the package. Consumers can buy it back, just after opening the packaging, they can smell a peppermint smell, but soon disappear. There is a longer way to retain Mint than a mint. The longer the way is to wrap the peppermint oil in a tiny capsule, just like the appearance of cod liver oil capsule that we usually eat, and then paste the adhesive on the surface of the garment material. After the consumer buys the product, by rubbing and rubbing it, the capsule will break down gradually, peppermint essential oil will slowly volatilize and produce a continuous Mint odor. Professor Yu said, generally with

But after many times of washing, the capsules will burst and drain, and the mint scent will disappear.

We developed the concept of peppermint fiber is green and natural, and did not deliberately retain the smell of peppermint, but pay more attention to peppermint "cool refreshing, antibacterial, anti-inflammatory" and other effective ingredients.

In order to make use of ordinary consumers' knowledge of peppermint, individual merchants think that smelling is only mint, which is chemically adhered to the surface of the garment by chemical purification of peppermint essential oil. This not only destroys the concept of green and natural mint, but also has chemical effects on health.

This is why we can smell some pungent mint flavor on some "peppermint" products.

How can we identify if there is no peppermint smell?

Or textiles are made from "

"What are the materials? Here are some ways to do this:

First, nature

Clothing made of fiber materials has good antibacterial properties, so if sales of natural mint clothing or textiles are sold, businesses can provide antibacterial testing reports issued by authoritative departments.

Second, menthone in peppermint can be detected by technical means. In China's quality standard, there is a clear requirement for menthone in mint fiber. Consumers can report to menthol on the content of menthone.

Third, look at the washing marks. On clothing or textiles, the water is clearly labeled as peppermint modified viscose fiber or viscose fiber (containing Mint ingredients).

Fourth, look at the touch, through direct contact with the touch feeling of clothing, natural mint fiber materials generally have a cool feeling, feel cool, and through the spray of essential oil to prove that the product of mint, not only does not feel cool and swish, there is a pungent mint flavor.

At the same time, in order to further confirm, the business can provide cold feeling test report.

Through the above method, we can identify the real Mint fiber material simply and effectively.

Healthy and comfortable products are the most important part of our pursuit of physical health and quality of life. The correct understanding of various new products on the market can help us more clearly when choosing, eliminate the effects of various chemical products on our health, let children grow up healthily, and the elderly live in their old age, so that new products and technologies can better serve our life.