Choose Evonik’s cleaning ingredients, formulation expertise and sustainable solutions
Creating impactful cleaning products requires high-quality raw materials, the right combination of ingredients, formulation know-how, and application expertise.
Evonik combines deep scientific knowledge with decades of practical experience to help customers accelerate development, optimize formulations, and bring innovative cleaning solutions to market. Working closely with customers across the value chain, we support the development of products that balance cleaning efficacy, user experience, and environmental responsibility.
Supporting sustainable and compliant cleaning formulations
As sustainability expectations and regulatory requirements continue to evolve, manufacturers need ingredients that help reduce environmental impact while maintaining product performance.
Evonik supports these goals through technologies that enable biodegradable formulations, renewable and biotechnology-based solutions, concentrated product formats, and alternatives to intentionally added microplastics in selected applications. In addition, many ingredients support ecolabel requirements and programs such as U.S. EPA Safer Choice.
For hygiene-focused applications, Evonik also offers active oxygen technologies that provide effective cleaning and disinfection while breaking down into simple substances after use.
By combining sustainable innovation with regulatory know-how, Evonik helps customers develop cleaning products that meet market expectations today while preparing for future requirements.
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Featured ingredients for high-performance, sustainable cleaning
Biosurfactants for next-generation cleaning
As demand grows for more sustainable cleaning ingredients, formulators are looking for solutions that combine performance, mildness, and environmental responsibility. Evonik's REWOFERM® biosurfactants help meet these requirements by delivering strong cleaning performance, wetting, and emulsification while supporting biodegradable cleaning formulations.
Beyond fragrance: Permanent malodor elimination
Consumers increasingly expect cleaning products to eliminate unwanted odors, not simply mask them. TEGO® Sorb technologies support long-lasting freshness by binding and neutralizing malodor molecules, making them suitable for laundry, hard surface cleaning, textile care, and other odor-control applications.
Enabling compact and concentrated cleaning products
Concentrated and low-water formulations are becoming increasingly important across home care and cleaning markets. AEROSIL®, SIPERNAT®, and ZEOFREE® specialty silicas and silicates support these trends by helping formulators create stable, efficient products while enabling the incorporation of ingredients such as surfactants, fragrances, and enzymes.
Active oxygens for hygiene and cleaning performance
Effective hygiene solutions remain essential across consumer and professional cleaning applications. Evonik's active oxygen technologies such as PERACLEAN® and HYPROX®, support bleaching, cleaning, and disinfection requirements while offering decomposition profiles that align with modern sustainability expectations.
Learn more about our solutions for Home Care & Cleaning
Whether you are developing the next generation of laundry detergents, dishwashing products, hard surface cleaners, or professional cleaning solutions, Evonik offers the ingredients, technologies, and expertise to support your formulation goals.
Home Care & Cleaning – Frequently asked questions
Sustainable cleaning formulations can include biodegradable surfactants, biosurfactants, ingredients derived from renewable feedstocks, active oxygens, and alternatives to intentionally added microplastics. Increasingly, formulators are looking for ingredients that combine cleaning performance with a reduced environmental footprint and support for evolving sustainability requirements.
Biosurfactants are surface-active ingredients produced from renewable raw materials, often using biotechnology. They can provide cleaning, wetting, emulsification, and foaming performance while supporting the development of biodegradable cleaning products. Biosurfactants are used across applications such as laundry detergents, dishwashing products, hard surface cleaners, and vehicle care formulations.
Concentrated cleaning products help reduce packaging, transportation requirements, and storage space while providing consumers and professional users with convenient, high-performance solutions. Formats such as detergent pods, concentrates, tablets, and refill systems continue to gain importance across the home care and cleaning market.
Effective odor control goes beyond adding fragrance. Modern odor-control technologies can bind and neutralize malodor molecules directly, helping eliminate unwanted odors rather than temporarily covering them. This approach can support long-lasting freshness in applications such as laundry care, textile care, hard surface cleaning, and institutional cleaning.
Silicas and silicates are multifunctional ingredients used in both liquid and powder cleaning formulations. Depending on the application, they can act as carriers for surfactants, enzymes, and fragrances, improve flow properties, support concentrated formulations, and help replace synthetic polymer-based materials in selected applications.
Industrial and institutional cleaning applications often require technologies that support both cleaning performance and hygiene standards. Active oxygen technologies, specialty surfactants, and advanced cleaning systems can help formulators develop products for cleaning, bleaching, and disinfection across a wide range of professional cleaning environments.
The industry is increasingly focusing on biodegradable ingredients, renewable raw materials, biotechnology-based solutions, concentrated product formats, and ingredients with improved environmental profiles. These approaches help manufacturers meet changing customer expectations while preparing for future regulatory and sustainability requirements.