SURFs UP - bathroom cleaner

Bathroom cleaner with biosurfactants

A bathroom-cleaning formulation using biosurfactants produced from wood and regional food-processing sidestreams.

Product details

Application area
Cosmetics & home care
Product type
Formulations
Specific feedstock
Hardwood sugars & lignin from wood waste & regional food processing waste
Feedstock type
Food industry sidestreams
Lignin & wood residues
Pure sugars
Programme
CBE JU
Related projects

About

SURFs UP has developed a bathroom-cleaning formulation using biosurfactants produced from second-generation biomass. The feedstocks include hardwood sugars, lignin from wood waste and regional food-processing sidestreams.

The formulation demonstrates the use of renewable surfactants in home care as an alternative to fossil-based surfactants. It forms part of the project's work to scale biosurfactant production and demonstrate cleaning formulations at pilot-to-industrial scale.

Key benefits

  • Replaces fossil-based surfactants
  • Reduces chemical toxicity in cleaning & agrochemical products
  • Demonstrates scalable industrial biosurfactant production

Application

  • Bathroom cleaning