Method for using water insoluble chemical additives with pulp and products made by said method

A method for preparing chemically treated pulp fibers comprising:

• a) creating a fiber slurry comprising process water and virgin pulp fibers;
• b) transporting the fiber slurry to a web-forming apparatus of a pulp sheet machine and forming a wet fibrous web;
• c) drying the wet fibrous web to a predetermined consistency thereby forming a dried fibrous web;
• and,
• d) treating the dried fibrous web with a water insoluble chemical additive thereby forming a chemically treated dried fibrous web containing chemically treated pulp fibers, wherein the chemically treated pulp fibers have an improved level of chemical retention of the water insoluble chemical additive and retain from between about 25 to about 100 percent of the applied amount of the water insoluble chemical additive when the chemically treated pulp fibers are redispersed in water and;
• further comprising transporting the chemically treated dried fibrous web to a paper machine and mixing the chemically treated dried fibrous web with water to form a chemically treated pulp fiber slurry containing the chemically treated pulp fibers having the water insoluble chemically additive retained thereby.