Daily hygiene requires regular cleaning of floors and textiles covering the floors. These include carpets, floor mats, doormats, etc. ISO 18168 describes a method for determining the colour fastness of textile floor coverings and yarns, loose fibres and tufts extracted from textile floor coverings to the action of a reference shampoo solution.
ISO 18168 guidelines on colour fastness of textile floor coverings are useful for:
With repeated cleaning, the fabrics of the textile get affected. Industries need to confirm the viability of their product by running certain checks. ISO 18168 provides guidelines for the test procedures. A specimen of a textile floor covering, yarn, loose fibre or tuft, in contact with specified adjacent fabrics, is immersed under pressure in a shampoo solution buffered to a pH of (7,5 ± 0,2). The specimen and the adjacent fabric are dried separately. The change in colour of the specimen and the staining of the adjacent fabrics are assessed using the grey scales.
Using ISO 18168 guidelines, you can ensure that customers have access to superior quality floor coverings.
ISO 18168:2015