Optical Brightening Agents

Optical Brightener is a chemical compound that absorbs light in violet as well as ultraviolet regions. This is used for enhancing the color appearance fabric and paper to provide them with a "whitening" effect. This is commonly added to laundry detergents for making the clothes look clean and shiny. This replaces the bluing and yellowing of the cloths to produce white effect. In addition to this, it also enhances the quality of the papers such as high brightness papers. It provides them with strongly fluorescent look under illumination. It is also ideal to be used in cosmetics to boost the shine and sparkle of the hair without any discoloration.  

Applications of Optical Brightener:

• Used as detergent whitener
• Used as paper brightener
• Used for fiber whitening and textile whitening
• Color-correcting in advanced cosmetic formulas