When.com Web Search

Search results

1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network

2. Scotchgard - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scotchgard

   Scotchgard is a 3M brand of products, a stain repellent and durable water repellent applied to fabrics, upholstery, and carpets to protect them from stains. Scotchgard products typically rely on organofluorine chemicals as the main active ingredient along with petroleum distillate solvents.

3. Patsy O'Connell Sherman - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patsy_O'Connell_Sherman

   With Samuel Smith, Sherman co-invented Scotchgard, which soon become one of the most famous and widely used stain repellent and soil removal products in North America. The invention of Scotchgard was sparked by an accident. Sherman and coworkers were initially assigned to develop a rubber that could be used for jet fuel hoses. [2]

4. Remember These Classic Family Cars Over the Past 50 Years - AOL

   www.aol.com/50-classic-family-cars-past...

   It was also among the first to make Scotchgard fabric protection a standard. By the mid-'90s, though, it began looking like an airport shuttle van and fell out of favor with families ...

5. Durable water repellent - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Durable_water_repellent

   Fluorine-containing durable water repellent makes a fabric water-resistant. Durable water repellent, or DWR, is a coating added to fabrics at the factory to make them water-resistant (hydrophobic). Most factory-applied treatments are fluoropolymer based; these applications are quite thin and not always effective.

6. 10 Christmas bedding essentials for a cozy guest room - AOL

   www.aol.com/lifestyle/christmas-bedding...

   Plus, it's been treated with a 3M Scotchgard treatment that helps release stains easily and wicks away moisture. Nearly 2,000 reviewers give it top marks, too. "My grandkids love them for their beds.

7. Welcome to Beautiful Parkersburg, West Virginia - The ...

   highline.huffingtonpost.com/articles/en/welcome...

   In April 2000, the company notified the EPA of its conclusions. One month later, it announced that it would phase out a close relative of C8 called perfluorooctane sulfonate, or PFOS, which was then used in 3M’s Scotchgard fabric protector. The press release made no mention of C8, but the company began quietly phasing that out, too.