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Laundry formulations and ingredient solutions
Maximizing each cycle: Innovations in laundry care
In laundry care, performance and efficiency go hand in hand. Consumers seek products that help clothes stay fresh, soft, and vibrant. At Ingredients + Specialties from Univar Solutions, we provide the technical expertise to tackle even the toughest stains. As your trusted partner, we offer a deep understanding of the laundry care landscape and a broad product portfolio that brightens whites, sanitizes fabrics, and enhances fabric care across every wash.
Consumers, on average, spend about 4 hours each week doing laundry, just over 200 hours per year! Consequently, consumers have no time to waste. Cleaning power and time efficiency are critical for both commercial laundry services and consumers.
The Univar Solutions Homecare and Industrial Cleaning team understands that the collaboration between a laundry product ingredient distributor and our customers is fundamental in developing formulas well-positioned to resonate with current laundry market demands. When partnering with a distributor with a deep understanding of market trends and consumer insights, brands can create powerful, convenient, and eco-friendly laundry product formulations.
Connect with our team to learn more about laundry product formulations that offer powerful and sustainable cleaning solutions without sacrificing their efficacy.
End uses in Bakery
Fresh and frozen breads, rolls, & bagels
We stock the phosphates, bicarbonates, fortifiers, texturizers, sweeteners, dough conditioners, and enzymes you need to make healthy and tasty fresh or frozen breads, rolls and bagels. With the high-quality ingredients you need to stay on trend and our deep expertise to help optimize your recipe, we can help you develop the gluten-free, high-protein or protein-enhanced products your customers want.
Fresh and frozen cakes, muffins, & pastries
We have the phosphates, bicarbonates, fortifiers, texturizers, sweeteners, preservatives, and flavors to help you develop or improve your recipe. Whether you seek to extend shelf life, improve texture, or improve taste in a gluten-free formulation, we can help grow your product line and your business.
Cookies
Cookie makers rely on us for innovative ingredient options and deep food industry expertise to develop and improve cookie products. Our high-quality phosphates, bicarbonates, texturizers, sweeteners, preservatives, and flavors will help you meet the demand for gluten-free, healthy or indulgent cookie options.
Mixes
Our highest-quality ingredients will provide reliable results to your premium, easy-to-use baking mixes to inspire the baker in everyone. From gluten-free to organic and label-friendly food ingredients, we have the right solutions for your bakery mix, ingredient-focused, and nutrition-focused consumers.
Mixes
Our highest-quality ingredients will provide reliable results to your premium, easy-to-use baking mixes to inspire the baker in everyone. From gluten-free to organic and label-friendly food ingredients, we have the right solutions for your bakery mix, ingredient-focused, and nutrition-focused consumers.
Latest Laundry Cleaning Trends
Bio Surfactants in Cleaning Applications: Introductory Guide
What are sustainable surfactants? Univar Solutions technical experts discuss key factors to consider when purchasing or formulating with bio-based surfactants.
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Insights on Sustainable Laundry Solutions
Environmental concern is an increasing large factor in consumer purchasing, but sustainable laundry products are still facing challenges around perception.
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Top 4 Fragrance Trends for Homecare & Industrial Cleaning Supplies
What does clean smell like? Learn how the homecare and industrial cleaning industry is reimagining and reformulating fragrances in today's cleaning products.
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Commercial Laundry Market Trends & Cleaning Products
Discover industrial-grade formulas for commercial laundry facilities that deliver better cleaning results, lower resource use and improved efficiency.
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Your reliable distributor for laundry chemicals and ingredients
Consumers want to be sure that if they spend so much time on a necessary chore, the job will be done as efficiently, quickly, and conveniently as possible.
Similarly, laundry businesses depend on reliable and powerful cleaning capabilities to combat the most difficult-to-clean substances (such as cooking grease and motor oil) and need items laundered in time for their clients.
Sustainable laundry cleaning products are now more vital than ever for both – consumers and commercial launderers who prefer solutions that are gentle on fabrics and the environment. People want to be sure the items they bring into their homes are safe for their families and the environment. Laundry businesses also want to protect their workers and the communities around them.
Meeting domestic and industrial user preferences necessitates a strategic approach from laundry brands and manufacturers in chemistry and ingredient selection for laundry products – making the role of a distributor for laundry chemicals and ingredients more crucial than ever.
Our team's invaluable expertise in sourcing and reliably supplying the right chemicals and ingredients and data-driven insights into consumer preferences have significantly influenced our customers' product successes. We provide access to the latest innovations as your laundry product raw material distributor, including green cleaning and high-efficiency solutions that can substantially enhance laundry formulation performance.
In-house laboratory solutions for laundry formulations
Univar Solutions goes beyond a laundry product raw material distributor role by merely supplying chemistry solutions. Instead, we are a partner in your innovation journey. When collaborating with customers, our in-house lab specialists and ingredient experts can guide brands in developing laundry product formulations that exceed household and industrial market expectations. This includes technical support for:
- Concentrated formulas (requiring less packaging and more accessible transport)
- Single-use pods that offer hassle-free dosing
- Laundry products that are effective at lower temperatures
- Sustainable laundry solutions, including enzymes
Innovation & Technical Solutions
What You Need to Know for 1,4 Dioxane Regulations
Learn what the 1,4-Dioxane regulations mean for your products and get expert input on how to best reformulate to maintain compliance.
Regulatory
Learn moreFormulation Kit
Explore industrial laundry formula prototypes designed for powerful cleaning using fewer resources.
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Optimize your laundry formulas with a plug-and-play solution - preblended enzymes from Novozymes.
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Specialty lab services
Innovating at the intersection of science, technology and consumer trends, Univar Solutions partners with customers and suppliers to create high-performing products and sustainable formulations.
Sustainable laundry solutions
Are you seeking more technical support and partnership from your distributor of laundry and chemical ingredients? Whether exploring time-, energy-, or cost-saving solutions or developing laundry products that enhance your sustainability profile, discover how working with us can bring innovative concepts to market through technical support for various essential laundering needs. We help our customers meet the demand for powerful and convenient cleaning solutions, aligning with growing industry trends toward sustainable laundry cleaning solutions for home and industrial applications.
The specialists in our global Solution Centers focus on research and development, custom solutions, and innovation with the latest ingredient technologies to overcome even the most complex formulation challenges for laundry products. They serve as an extension of your team to help bring new and reformulated laundry cleaning products to the market faster – at any stage of the development cycle. Innovating at the intersection of science, technology, and consumer trends, Univar Solutions collaborates with our customers and suppliers to go beyond just distribution and become your partner in creating high-performance laundry cleaners and sustainable formulations.
We help brands of all sizes develop innovative products and sustainable solutions through technical expertise and formulation development.
Formulation Kits
Videos
Our Global Network of Solution Centers
Webinars & Events
On-demand Webinar
Life, Cycle: Innovations for Industrial Laundry
Watch our webinar with insights into commercial laundry challenges and how to lower costs and drive efficient cleaning at industrial facilities.
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Innovation Summit 2021: Sustainable Cleaning Solutions
Hosted by American Cleaning Institute: Hear from a panel of experts and gain insight into sustainable cleaning trends, technical innovations and regulatory changes.
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Additional Suppliers
- DuPont
- Evonik
- Innospec
- Nouryon
- Oxiteno
- Lubrizol
Your Next Cleaning Innovation Starts Here
A global footprint and world-class supply chain enable us to respond quickly to your specialty and commodity ingredient needs. Connect with our technical teams and find your next solution.
