and form a soft resinous coating that is durable to cleaning procedures this polymeric coating imparts durable anti microbial activity and renewable control of certain odors application_number US 53454705 A description as used herein and in the appended claims u201c a u201d and u201c an u201d mean one or more unless otherwise indicated the terms u201c durable u201d and u201c durability u201d as used herein describe a finished fibrous substrate in which the desired properties imparted to the substrate by the finish are observed after multiple launderings or dry cleanings the u201c cellulose containing u201d or u201c cellulosic u201d fibrous substrates to be treated according to the present invention include any cellulosic fiber and any blend of fibers that contains a cellulosic whether as a majority or a minority component cellulosic based substrates include paper cotton rayon and other regenerated cellulosics and cellulose containing materials linen jute ramie industrial hemp and the like in a presently preferred embodiment the cellulose containing fiber or fibrous substrate is cotton the hydroxyl containing amines for use in the invention may be primary secondary or tertiary amines or mixtures thereof and may come from natural sources or from synthetic preparation tertiary amines are preferred because of their greatly reduced tendency to yellow compared to primary and secondary amines which in turn exhibit reduced yellowing than that experienced with prior art amine treatments presently preferred embodiments of the invention include alkanol amines and preferably are selected from the tertiary amines of formula a wherein each of r 1 r 2 and r 3 is independently selected from lower alkyl groups unsubstituted or substituted with one or more hydroxyl groups and each of x 1 x 2 and x 3 is independently u2014 oh.