CBE JU: Safe Bio-Based Ingredients for Home & Personal Care
Funds one €20M project that turns bio-based chemicals and ingredients into safer, sustainable home and personal care products at industrial scale.
Home and personal care products still rely on many conventional chemicals and ingredients. This topic funds one industrial-scale project to replace them with bio-based alternatives that are safe, sustainable and able to perform in real products.
A winning project takes the solution through the last stretch to market. It demonstrates production at TRL 8, then puts the bio-based chemicals, ingredie…
Industrial-scale production and use of Safe and Sustainable by Design (SSbD) bio-based chemicals, ingredients and functional materials for home and personal care products, including cosmetics. The project must demonstrate production at TRL 8, apply the solution in market-relevant end-products at TRL 7 or above, and validate an industrial production use case at TRL 6 where relevant. It covers safety and regulatory work, water-pollution and biodegradability testing, end-user and brand-owner input, and links to the European Commission's SSbD framework. Nonwovens, other wipes and packaging are out of scope.
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