garments made of all types of textile fabrics without the need for additional agents such as detergents and fabric softeners it may be desirable to include in the formulation one or more surfactants to enhance the detergency action of the dptb or pnb by means of reducing the surface tension of the composition exemplary surfactant include fatty alcohol polyethylene glycol ethers linear primary alcohol ethoxylates and cyclic siloxanes other glycol ethers suitable for use as dry cleaning solvents may be added as well including ptb and pnb thus dry cleaning compositions according to the present invention may include less than 90 by weight of dptb provided that the weight ratio of dptb to water remains greater than about 9 1 compositions according to the present invention may contain as little as 50 by weight of dptb or even less or any quantity between 50 and 100 by weight i e 55 weight 60 weight 65 weight etc while fabric softening agents are not necessary to achieve dry cleaning they are beneficial and serve to enhance the dry cleaning process thus compositions according to the present invention may also include an effective amount of one or more fabric softening agents it has also been determined that the dptb compositions of the present invention are effective solvents for water insoluble dyes and the dyeing of fabrics dye compositions can be prepared by dissolving aliphatic glycol ether soluble dyes in the dptb compositions of the present invention dyes that are water insoluble but soluble in aliphatic glycol ethers can be readily identified by those of ordinary skill in the art without undue experimentation by performing simple solubility testing.