SURFs UP - kitchen cleaner

Kitchen cleaner with biosurfactants

A kitchen-cleaning formulation using bio-based surfactants for grease and dirt removal with reduced reliance on fossil-based ingredients.

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

A kitchen-cleaning formulation using bio-based surfactants for grease and dirt removal with reduced reliance on fossil-based ingredients.

The product demonstrates how renewable surfactants can be incorporated into an everyday home-care formulation while reducing reliance on fossil-based ingredients. It forms part of the project's wider scale-up of biosurfactant production.

Key benefits

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

Application

  • Kitchen cleaning