Category: Household Care Products

Introducing Rheozan® BLC: A New Era of Sustainability in Home Care

In the evolving landscape of home care products, sustainability and efficacy are paramount. HARKE UK is proud to introduce Rheozan® BLC, a groundbreaking solution from Syensqo that embodies both. As a 100% natural suspension agent, Rheozan® BLC offers an eco-friendly alternative to traditional chemical agents in various home care applications.

What is Rheozan® BLC?

Rheozan® BLC is a natural polymer, produced through a non-GMO biotech fermentation process. It utilises bacterial cellulose from the Komagataeibacter species, refined through stages of fermentation, purification, and activation. This innovative product forms a three-dimensional nanofibers network that enhances the suspension of particulates in concentrated surfactant formulas without altering the viscosity, a common challenge in traditional products.

Key Benefits of Rheozan® BLC

Enhanced Suspension Capabilities

Rheozan® BLC ensures stable suspension at a remarkably low active loading (~500 ppm) for various applications, such as fragrance capsules in laundry detergents. This strong suspension power is maintained without impacting the viscosity of the formulation, allowing for more aesthetic and functional flexibility in product design. Rheozan® BLC also stabilises low viscosity spray emulsions (like furniture polishes) and cream cleansers.

Compatibility and Versatility

Rheozan® BLC excels across a broad pH spectrum and is compatible with enzymes, making it an ideal choice for a variety of home care products. It comes in liquid form and is easy to incorporate with low-energy mixing, making it valuable for diverse formulations, from liquid laundry detergent to hand dishwashing liquids.

Sustainability at Its Core

Rheozan® BLC is not only 100% natural but also readily biodegradable. It meets upcoming EU regulations, including those concerning microplastics and biodegradability, making it a forward-thinking choice for brands committed to environmental responsibility.

Real-World Applications

From enhancing the functionality of laundry sanitizers by suspending high concentrations of fragrance capsules, to stabilising cream cleansers and low viscosity spray emulsions, Rheozan® BLC is transforming home care products. It also allows for the incorporation of visual cues like golden nylon particles or opacifiers, adding to the sensory and visual appeal of consumer products.

To learn more about how Rheozan® BLC can revolutionise your home care products, and to get more data on its various home care applications, contact us today.

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Syensqo: Tackling Climate Change

Climate change is a global emergency that’s affecting everyone – every individual, community, country and organisation. It’s therefore absolutely vital that we all continue to work together to collectively reduce our environmental impact as much as possible.

Many organisations are already working hard to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050, and for personal care formulators to achieve this goal they need to review each product’s entire lifecycle: looking at how their ingredients are sourced, how the product is manufactured and distributed, how it’s used by the consumer and finally how it’s disposed.

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Soluble packaging: Your Questions Answered

For some time, the laundry detergent industry has shifted towards water-soluble pods/sachets as concentrated products, replacing traditional powders, liquids, and blocks. These products are available in single or multi-pocket formats. More recently, auto dishwash products have also moved towards multi-pocket pods, while hard surface cleaning sprays and disinfectant sprays have adopted concentrated powder or liquid pods that are diluted at the point of use in pump spray bottles.

We at Chemlink Harke Group are now exploring the use of soluble packaging in their rinse-off and leave-on cosmetic products, which represents a significant area of development. This opens up countless possibilities for joint collaboration with cosmetic brands to expand the application of this technology.

Vitech’s Q-range of degreasers

Vitech’s Q-range is an excellent assortment of powerful and highly effective degreasers, specially developed to target key areas in the HI&I industry.

In this post we’ll cover Vitech’s five different degreasers available, discussing their benefits, applications and performance to give you an insight into each product’s capabilities and to help you decide on the most appropriate degreaser for your specific formulation.

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UK supplier of Sanitized® Antimicrobial Additives

Addi-tec are proud to announce that we are the UK suppliers of the world-leading antimicrobial additive, Sanitized®, for all hard surfaces and geotextiles.

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Eureco™ LX Grades for Detergents: Understanding Its Use as a Bleaching Agent

Solvay’s increasingly popular Eureco™ range (which is based on PAP: 6-phthalimidoperoxyhexanoic acid) provides effective and sustainable washing solutions for a variety of industries.

It’s worth noting here that there are a lot of misconceptions surrounding the use of PAP and its application, but the Eureco™ range is highly regarded for its excellent stain-removing capabilities (tackling some of the most stubborn stains such as tea, coffee, tomato and grass), its ability to eliminate malodour and kill germs, bacteria and fungi, all whilst remaining gentle on the skin. Eureco™ is also odourless and has an excellent eco-toxicological profile, with no chlorine or Volatile Organic Chemicals (VOC) released into the environment.

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