Household, Industrial & Institutional Cleaners
Natural performance bio-polymers for HI&I CleanERS
In homecare, industrial & institutional cleaning formulations, performance and sustainability can no longer be trade-offs. Borregaard supplies bio-based ingredients that deliver reliable functionality in a wide range of cleaning applications – from dish tabs and laundry detergents to fabric softeners and spray cleaners.
Whether you're seeking better anti-filming in ADW, improved redeposition control in laundry, or natural thickening for acid cleaners – we offer proven alternatives to synthetic dispersants, thickeners, and stabilisers.
Our products can help you solve typical challenges in formulating homecare products and professional cleaning detergents. In ongoing development and innovation, the products are also vital in replacing synthetic additives with bio-based alternatives without sacrificing performance.
Explore by application or by product to discover how LignoBrite and Exilva can help you meet both performance goals and sustainability claims:
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LignoBrite Upcycled homecare ingredients
Borregaard is proud to present LignoBrite – a sustainable, upcycled and multifunctional biopolymer for homecare products, bringing circularity and nature into your products.
Lignin is a natural polymer found in all plants. Borregaard extracts the lignin from wild, sustainably harvested Norway Spruce. The water-soluble lignin biopolymer LignoBrite is a powerful dispersant that boosts cleaning performance and prevents films, scales, and deposits in detergent applications such as automatic dishwash, laundry, hard surface and industrial cleaning.

Auto dishwashing
Reduce filming and spotting in diswhasher detergents.
Laundry detergents
Prevent greying and redeposition in laundry detergents.
Hard surface cleaners
Improve next-time cleaning and keep surface cleaner for longer.
Fabric softeners & -care
Stabilise your formulation and enhance frangrance capsule adhesion on fabric.
Acidic cleaners
Improve vertical cling, sprayability and thickening in acidic cleaners.
Industrial cleaners
Reduce deposits and boost soil dispersion in acidic and alkaline industrial cleaners.
Explore our HI&I cleaners ingredients
LignoBrite bio-circular & upcycled ingredients
A natural dispersant derived from lignin – a bio-circular and upcycled polymer, designed to replace synthetic polymers in different systems. Boosts soil suspension, anti-filming, and cleaning efficiency.
Exilva rheology modifier and thickener
Microfibrillated cellulose (MFC) offering natural thickening, stabilization, and spray enhancement. Ideal for liquids, softeners, acidic formulations, and surface clings – with excellent sustainability credentials.
FOOTNOTES:
1 Lignin-based biopolymers from Borregaard Sarpsborg
2 100% (Lignin-based biopolymers for HPC) and 99% (Exilva) bio-based carbon based on ASTM D6866-18 Method B
3 Following European Investment Bank (EIB) definition (The European Investment Bank (EIB) Circular Economy Guide (https://www.eib.org/files/publications/thematic/circular_economy_guide_en.pdf))
4 Lignin (Biodegradable means that lignosulfonates degrade in the environment along similar pathways to lignin in woody biomass). Exilva 100% biodegradable.
5 PEFC and/or FSC certified or controlled wood. Meets the definition of ISO 16128 of “derived natural and organic ingredient” (Lignin-based biopolymers) or “natural and organic ingredient” (Exilva).