Excellent cross-linking benefits, to improve wrinkle recovery can be obtained in laundry treatment by use of a triazine-based, cellulose cross-linking agent that has a highly flexible linking group between at least two, mono-reactive cross-linking moieties and cellulose unreactive substituent groups. The linking group acts as a ‘spring’ whereas the two end groups bind chemically to cotton fibres.
A water-soluble, triazine-based, non-dye, cellulose cross-linking agent that has a highly flexible linking group between at least two, mono-reactive cross-linking moieties and further hydrophilic or non-hydrophilic substituents.