01 Apr 2022 --- BASF and Henkel are jointly committing to replace fossil carbon feedstock with renewable feedstock for most products in Henkel’s European Laundry & Home Care and Beauty Care businesses over the next four years. The move follows a pilot with Henkel’s cleaning and detergent brand Love Nature in 2021. PackagingInsights speaks with Ivo Grgic, senior purchasing manager at Henkel and Dr. Jan Schöneboom, head of Global Sustainability Care Chemicals at BASF. “The biomass balance approach by BASF enables Henkel to use more [environmentally] sustainable biomass in our existing production chain without changing our processes because the substitution of the fossil feedstock takes place in the production plants of BASF,” explains Grgic.The companies say that through the cooperation, the fossil feedstock for around 110,000 metric tons of ingredients per year will be substituted with renewable feedstock using BASF’s certified biomass balance approach. As a result, Henkel’s core brands like Persil, Pril, Fa and Schauma will come with a reduced carbon footprint, avoiding around 200,000 tons of carbon emissions.The replacement of fossil carbon feedstock with renewable feedstock will be applied to most products in the European Henkel Laundry & Home Care and Beauty Care businesses. These applications include laundry detergents, dishwashing and cleansing products like shampoos, shower gels and liquid soaps.
