Home & Industrial Cleaning
The science behind a cleaner home, kitchen, and workplacey
HI&I formulators are asked to do the impossible: deliver stronger cleaning performance with milder ingredients, lower-impact packaging, and clearer sustainability stories — all while managing cost and supply volatility. Verdant builds chemistries that hold up to that brief. Our surfactants and specialty additives power dish, laundry, hard surface, automotive, and institutional cleaners around the world.
The challenges shaping HI&I today
Performance across extremes
Cleaners need to work in hard water, at extreme pH, with heavy electrolyte loads, and across a wide temperature range.
Concentration and refill formats
Concentrates, refills, and pods are reshaping packaging and demanding higher-actives, lower-water surfactant systems.
Sustainability and clean-label pressure
Consumers are reading HI&I labels the way they read personal care labels — biodegradability, plant-based content, and DEA/MEA/formaldehyde-free claims are increasingly table stakes.
Regulatory complexity
Prop 65, EU restrictions, and evolving safer-choice programs (EPA Safer Choice, EU Ecolabel) are tightening what can go into a formula.
Strong performance with mildness for the user
Hand soaps, dish liquids, and household sprays touch human skin — mildness matters even in industrial cleaning.
Trends Shaping HI&I
The concentrate revolution
Pods, sheets, refills, and tablets are reshaping the surfactant brief — higher actives, lower water, more rugged stability.
Sustainability claims on the front of pack
Biodegradability, plant-based content, and certifications like EPA Safer Choice and EU Ecolabel are moving from fine print to hero claim.
Mildness in mainstream cleaning
Hand dish and household cleaners are being formulated to personal-care mildness standards.
Performance in cold water
Energy-conscious consumers and energy-efficient appliances mean surfactants need to perform without heat.
Microplastic and ingredient scrutiny
Formulators are reformulating ahead of regulation, swapping out ingredients before they're banned.
Industrial & institutional resilience
Healthcare, food service, and manufacturing demand cleaning chemistries that hold up to high throughput and tight compliance.
Our Chemistry, Your Vision
Your partner in home care, industrial, and institutional cleaning formulation
Many of our personal care chemistries do double duty in HI&I, which means you get the mildness and clean-label profile of a personal care surfactant with the heavy-lift performance of an industrial cleaner. Our HI&I-focused grades are engineered for the realities of the cleaning aisle and the back-of-house.
Stability across the full pH range
Many of our amphoterics perform from pH 2 to 13, with compatibility in caustic, acid, and bleach-based systems.
Hydrotropy and coupling
Specialized amphoterics and phosphate esters that solubilize nonionics into high-electrolyte and caustic systems.
Low-foam options
Phosphate esters and tailored amphoterics for CIP, bottle washing, and machine dishwash applications.
Concentrate-friendly chemistries
High-actives and salt-free grades that enable concentrate, refill, and pod formats.
Cross-portfolio across a wide range of applications
The same MACKAM® that builds a mild baby shampoo can be the secondary surfactant in your premium dish liquid.
Featured Technologies
Amphoterics & Betaines
Foam, mildness, viscosity, and coupling for liquid hand soaps, dish, and hard surface cleaners.
Hydrotropes
Salt-free and low-foam coupling agents that solubilize nonionics in caustic and high-electrolyte systems.
Phosphate Esters
Low-foam wetting and corrosion-inhibition chemistries for alkaline cleaners, bottle wash, and metal cleaners.
Sultaines
High-foam, broad-pH-stable surfactants for premium dish and hand care.
Alkanolamides
Foam stabilizers and viscosity builders, including solid-format options for laundry bars and sheets.
Amine Oxides
Versatile foam, viscosity, and detergency builders compatible with anionic systems.
Featured Products
MACKAMINE® CS
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MACKAM® Ultra C-32 MB
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Our HI&I portfolio is built for a cleaner future in every sense of the word.
- Readily biodegradable across most amphoterics, betaines, and hydrotropes.
- Plant-based and naturally derived options for brands building eco-credentials.
- Salt-free, DEA-free, MEA-free, and formaldehyde-free grades to meet evolving regulatory and consumer requirements.
- Powder and solid formats to reduce water transport, packaging, and carbon footprint.
- High-actives chemistries that enable concentrate and refill formats.
- Mass Balance and certified-content options across key product lines.
Find your next ingredient
Filter our HI&I portfolio by application — dish, laundry, hard surface, hand care, institutional — by function, or by sustainability claim. Or tell us what you're formulating and we'll point you at the right starting place.