Fabric softener compositions

A method of use of a liquid aqueous fabric softener composition for wrinkle recovery treatment or the reduction of wet soiling of textile fibre materials in domestic applications, which comprises treating textile fibre materials during textile laundering with a softener composition which comprises:

• A) a fabric softener;
• B) at least one additive selected from the group consisting of
• b) a fatty acid alkanolamide of formula
• wherein
• R33 is a saturated or unsaturated hydrocarbon radical containing 10 to 24 carbon atoms,
• R34 is a hydrogen or a radical of formula —CH2OH, —(CH2CH2O)cH or
• wherein c is a number from 1 to 10 and R36 is as defined above for R33, and
• R35 is a radical of formula —CH2OH, —(CH2CH2O)cH,
• c is a defined above,
• R37 is hydrogen or a radical of formula
• wherein R36 is as defined above,
• R38, R38′ and R38″ have the same of different meaning and are as defined above for R34, and
• R39, R39′ and R39″ have the same or different meaning and are a radical of formula
• wherein R36 is as defined above, or a mixture thereof, and
• C) a dispersed polyorganosiloxane of formula (1)
• wherein
• R1 is OH, OR2 or CH3
• R2 is CH3 or CH2CH3
• R3 is C1-C20alkoxy, CH3, CH2CHR4CH2NHR5, or CH2CHR4CH2N(COCH3)R5
• R4 is H or CH3
• R5 is H, CH2CH2NHR6, C(═O)—R7 or (CH2)z—CH3
• z is 0 to 7
• R6 is H or C(═O)—R7
• R7 is CH3, CH2CH3 or CH2CH2CH2OH
• R8 is H or CH3
• the sum of X and Y is 40 to 4000;
• or a dispersed polyorganosiloxane which comprises at least one unit of the formula (5)
• (R9)V(R10)WSi—A—B (5)
• wherein
• R9 is CH3, CH3CH2 or Phenyl
• R10 is —O—Si or —O—R9
• the sum of v and w equals 3, and v does not equal 3
• A=—CH2CH(R11)(CH2)K
• B=—NR12((CH2)l—NH)mR12, or
• n is 0 or 1
• when n is 0, U1 is N, when n is 1, U1 is CH
• l is 2 to 8
• k is 0 to 6
• m is 0 to 3
• R11 is H or CH3
• R12 is H, C(═O)—R16, CH2(CH2)pCH3 or
• p is 0 to 6
• R13 is NH, O, OCH2CH(OH)CH2N(Butyl), OOCN(Butyl)
• R14 is H, linear or branched C1-C4 alkyl, Phenyl or CH2CH(OH)CH3
• R15 is H or linear or branched C1-C4 alkyl
• R16is CH3, CH2CH3 or (CH2)qOH
• q is 1 to 6
• U2 is N or CH;
• or a dispersed polyorganosiloxane of the formula (8)
• wherein
• R3is as previously defined
• R17 is OH, OR18 or CH3
• R18 is CH3 or CH2CH3
• R19 is R20-(EO)m-(PO)n-R21
• m is 3 to 25
• n is 0 to 10
• R20 is the direct bond or CH2CH(R22)(CH2)pR23
• p is 1 to 4
• R21 is H, R24, CH2CH(R22)NH2 or CH(R22)CH2NH2
• R22 is H or CH3
• R23 is 0 or NH
• R24 is linear or branched C1-C8 alkyl or Si(R25)3
• R25 is R24, OCH3 or OCH2CH3
• EO is —CH2CH2O—
• PO is —CH(CH3)CH2O— or —CH2CH(CH3)O—
• the sum of X1,Y1 and S is 20 to 1500;
• or a dispersed polyorganosiloxane of the formula (9)
• wherein
• R26 is linear or branched C1-C20 alkoxy, CH2CH(R4)R29
• R4 is as previously defined
• R29 is linear or branched C1-C20 alkyl
• R27 is aryl, aryl substituted by linear or branched C1-C10 alkyl, linear or branched C1-C20 alkyl substituted by aryl or aryl substituted by linear or branched C1-C10 alkyl
• R28 is
• the sum of X2, X3, X4 and Y2 is 20 to 1500, wherein X3, X4 and Y2 may be independently of each other 0;
• or a mixture thereof.