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- 03/29/2022

Get Inspired by Innospec’s ingredients to deliver zero waste products for Home Care, I&I

HPC Today

At Innospec, Sustainability is our focus and it is our responsibility to deliver zero waste, sustainable, effective ingredients in the form of dry surfactants and concentrated blends.  

As consumers express interest in more sustainable formats for household products, we’ve developed new exciting solutions to meet their needs. Our R&D team designs new formulations around our extended portfolio of dried surfactants. Such ingredients are ideal to create zero waste products: solid formula that cut down on single-use plastic usage and limit the water transportation as part of reducing our carbon footprint. Solid formats allow us to rethink packaging and explore waste-free solutions. Categories where liquid formats dominate, such as laundry detergents, toilet care and manual dishwashing products can be replaced by sustainable-solid alternatives.  

Refills are also a key opportunity in reducing excess packaging and waste and we develop solutions ideal for a broad range of applications from surface cleaning, to manual dishwashing and fabric care. These refills are both solid formats and liquid unit dose packed in water soluble film. Diluting the product at home means less water is being transported, fewer trucks on the road and less greenhouse gas emissions. The concentrated cleaners are more sustainable than traditional liquids and consumers are willing to adopt solutions that care about the environment.  

At Innospec we benefit of a wide range of ingredients ideal to create sustainable and concentrate solutions in home care applications. 

We work with our customers to adapt our solutions to their needs, to create the concentrate and super-concentrate formulations they’re looking for.   

Our solutions are customizable to multiple formats and they provide powerful wetting and degreasing properties for manual dishwash, hard surface cleaning and fabric care applications. They are easy to dilute and stable at all dilutions and readily biodegradable.  

Starting from market needs and what is challenging for customers, we provide the best of our support and technical knowledge to meet their requirements and to be their partners within their next formulation.