“We see strong business potential in these partnerships,” said Ralph Schweens, president, care chemicals, BASF. “While BASF already has solid innovation and production capabilities for surfactants, we are always scouting for opportunities to work with partners well-rooted in technologies which add to our strength in order to expand our product portfolio with additional biobased products.”
In collaboration with ACS, BASF developed a novel sophorolipid-based ingredient, produced via fermentation technology, and launched BioToLife in Asia last year. According to BASF, BioToLife has unique properties such as curbing the overgrowth of some harmful microbials and excellent cleansing, hence restoring an environment which supports the formation of a balanced micro-ecosystem in skin, scalp or oral care application. While the first product is already available, ACS and BASF will deepen the collaboration with the focus to develop a range of formulations based on sophorolipids with targeted performance.
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