of an amount of methyl bis canola amidoethyl 2 hydroxyethyl ammonium methyl sulfate provided enhanced performance as a buffering and wetting agent in further testing on polyamide fibers it was found that by using between 1 and 5 grams per liter of ethyl lactate in the dyeing process dye solubility was achieved early in the process at lower temperatures and consequently traditional amounts of dye could be significantly reduced it was also found that on average the traditional metal complex dye formula could be cut by about 20 to 55 with the ethyl lactate treatment and shade could be achieved furthermore by reducing the amount of dye in the dye bath the treatment achieved nearly total exhaustion thereby virtually eliminating chrome and dye discharge to the effluent stream additional testing was conducted on nylon as well as wool fiber using standard nylanthrene dyes it was found that process time could be significantly reduced using a mixture of an ethyl lactate formulation noted above additionally by varying the percentage of wetting agent blended nylon and wool could be dyed with optimum union between nylon and wool traditionally significant buffering would be required to prevent all the dye from going to the nylon which has a higher affinity for the dye further testing was conducted with machinery used throughout the textile industry the machines in which the ethyl lactate was tested were beam beck jet paddle tub rotary skein and package results were superior in each type of machine note that procedural differences exist between the different types of machines note that the above described enhancements to prior treatment methods were limited to the dyeing of nylon or wool fibers thus there still remained the need to develop.