US Patent No. 8,846,597 B2; LH Taylor Associates, Germantown, MD, has patented a method for reducing at least one damaging effect of a hypochlorite salt-containing solution on a soft fabric article. The method entails forming a hypochlorite salt-containing solution having 0.5 to 2.4 weight percent of a hypochlorite salt; adding an alkali metal hydroxide to the hypochlorite salt-containing solution, the amount of alkali metal hydroxide added being selected to produce a resulting solution with a p...