Production of cosmetic-textile by using microcapsule and liposome technology

Today, consumers request the basic characteristics of textile products alongside having extra functions like health and beauty protection, improving quality of life, being nature, and not damaging human beings and the environment while performing all these functions. A new concept called "cosmetic textile" is defined as the textile product which has the main purpose of showing cosmetic effects and includes cosmetic product having time-release property. With this thesis, the production of cosmetic textile products was achieved by using liposome and microparticule technologies which is an innovative perspective to the textile sector. The expected products of the project is aimed to be cosmetic textile products having moisturizing, re-epithelization and relieving cracks effect like shirts, socks, tights products. In order to achieve this effect, allantoin was used as the active ingredient. In order to impart controlled release properties to active ingredient, it was encapsulated into liposomes and microparticule. In the thesis, the most commonly used fibers; polyamide was used in the products like shirts, socks, tights. Material characterization tests of produced liposomes and microcapsule were conducted and produced liposomes and microcapsules were applied to the polyamide fabrics without using any cross-linking agents and using different crosslinkers.By means of the intended outcomes of this project, alongside technological value, functional textiles which are suitable for today's fashion sense and high value-added are aimed to be produced. Keywords: cosmetic textile, liposome, microcapsule, allantoin