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Dear Shirley,
Your question was forwarded to me.
When wool fiber is processed for use in
manufacturing wool carpets and rugs, it is thoroughly scoured to remove
impurities as well as lanolin. The standard is that the finished,
cleaned wool must contain less than .5%. The reason is that too much
lanolin would contribute to resoiling, something that would not be
tolerated by the end user.
Therefore one would not want to add
lanolin to wool after it has been cleaned.
Regards,
Geoff Greeley
Geoffrey R. Greeley
Director of Marketing & Training HOST/Racine Industries, Inc. 800-558-9439 ggreeley@xxxxxxxxxxx Shirley Ellis wrote: Does anyone know of any literature about adding lanolin back to wool textiles (after washing)? Inherently I feel this is not a good thing, as I doubt it would go back into the wool fibres and instead would sit on the surface, eventually becoming sticky. Landi says something to that effect but does anyone know of anything else about this? shirley ellis |