Cleaning products play a vital role in maintaining hygiene and cleanliness in many settings. However, the complexity of formulations, coupled with increasing consumer demands for sustainability and ingredient transparency, has prompted the need for simplification in the cleaning product industry. BASF, a leading global ingredient supplier, can support formulators in their quest for streamlined and efficient solutions. Explore the benefits of product simplification, below.
Logistics
One of the primary advantages of simplifying cleaning products lies in optimizing logistics. By reducing the number of components required for formulations, manufacturers can streamline their supply chains, resulting in improved efficiency and reduced complexity. Fewer ingredients mean reduced inventory costs, simplified transportation logistics, and enhanced overall supply chain management. BASF’s broad portfolio of multifunctional and versatile ingredients enables formulators to achieve product simplification without compromising efficacy or performance.
Production Benefits
Simplified cleaning product formulations offer numerous production benefits. The reduction in complexity translates to streamlined production processes, shorter manufacturing lead times, and increased production flexibility. With fewer ingredients to manage and incorporate, manufacturers can reduce production errors, enhance product consistency, and improve overall quality control. BASF’s comprehensive range of high-quality ingredients, combined with their technical expertise, empowers formulators to optimize their production processes, resulting in more efficient and cost-effective operations.
Cost Optimization
Product simplification presents a significant opportunity for cost optimization. By minimizing the number of ingredients required, manufacturers can reduce procurement costs, enhance inventory management, and minimize waste. Furthermore, simplified formulations often result in more efficient use of raw materials, reducing overall material costs. BASF’s extensive expertise in ingredient optimization enables formulators to develop cost-effective cleaning products without compromising performance, meeting the evolving needs of the market while ensuring profitability.
Ingredient Transparency
In today’s environmentally conscious marketplace, ingredient transparency has become paramount. Consumers are increasingly demanding greater clarity about the chemicals present in cleaning products, their potential impact on health, and the environment. By simplifying formulations, formulators can enhance ingredient transparency and provide consumers with a clearer understanding of the product’s composition. BASF offers a portfolio of sustainable and eco-friendly options that align with formulators’ goals for transparency, enabling the creation of products that inspire consumer trust.
Sustainability
Sustainability is a key driver in the cleaning product industry, and simplification plays a pivotal role in achieving environmentally friendly solutions. By reducing the number of ingredients, formulators can minimize the ecological footprint of their products. Simplified formulations often require fewer resources during manufacturing, consume less energy, and generate less waste. BASF’s commitment to sustainability is reflected in their wide range of eco-friendly ingredients, allowing formulators to develop cleaning products that meet the evolving demands for sustainability and contribute to a healthier planet.
How BASF can help you streamline your cleaning solutions
Dehypound® M and Dehypound® HDG are perfect examples of some of the ingredients in BASF’s portfolio that can help you achieve the above benefits, and more. Multifunctional cleaning is efficient cleaning. Dehypound HDG and Dehypound M can replace/consolidate multiple surfactants, eliminate the need for solvents, and (in the case of Dehypound M) coupling agents in most formulations. They can be used in a wide range of cleaning formulations, including surface cleaners, degreasers, and industrial cleaning products. Their compatibility with different substrates ensures their effectiveness across diverse cleaning tasks.
BASF’s range of Trilon® chelating agents offer versatile, high-performance options for your simplified cleaning formulations. Trilon® M offers excellent metal ion sequestration, scale and deposit prevention, enhanced stability, improved cleaning performance, and pH flexibility. For these reasons, it can be used in many different formulations across your cleaning product ranges, simplifying your raw material procurement.
Another ingredient from BASF that can enable simplification of formulations is Sokalan® HP 20. Sokalan HP 20 is a specialized polymer that offers many benefits across many applications. It is a highly effective dispersant: enhancing detergency and preventing re-deposition of soil. It has also demonstrated the ability to enable surfactant reduction at equal performance. By reducing your surfactant usage while maintaining performance, you unlock opportunities to simplify your portfolio.
All the BASF products mentioned above also offer sustainability benefits. They are all low- or no 1,4-dioxane, and each is suitable for use in Safer Choice products. Dehypound M, Dehypound HDG, and Trilon M are readily biodegradable (by OECD 301B). This means that they biodegrade up to 60% in 28 days. Additionally, Dehypound M is 71% biobased, and Trilon M is 43% biobased – meaning that they contain biobased carbons from renewable biological sources. And when even higher biobased content is called for, BASF Glucopon® Alkypolyglucosides have 100% renewable carbon and are well suited for many different cleaning applications.
The simplification of cleaning products brings a multitude of benefits to formulators. BASF offers a comprehensive portfolio of solutions to support this. You can learn more about BASF’s portfolio of cleaning ingredients, and how to simplify your formulations at our website or by contacting us at: detergents-cleaners-na@basf.com.
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