Beauty Without the Beast

Surfactants are everywhere: your shampoo, toothpaste, hand soap, even the foam on your coffee. But here’s the hidden truth: most surfactants are made from fossil fuels or palm oil and often contain harmful chemicals and toxic byproducts. They pollute waterways, harm ecosystems, and can even pose risks to human health.

AmphiStar is changing that.
We don’t make the final products like hand soap or all-purpose cleaners, but we make the key ingredient that goes inside them: safe, sustainable biosurfactants. Instead of petroleum or palm oil, we transform food waste into high-performance biosurfactants through a fermentation process, like brewing beer, but for cleaning and care ingredients. Our biosurfactants are biodegradable, sulfate-free, and free from hazardous contaminants, making them safer for you and the planet.

Our impact is real: Ecover already launched a limited edition cleaner powered by our technology, proving that green chemistry works. By replacing fossil and palm-based surfactants, we cut carbon emissions, fight deforestation, and eliminate harmful substances from everyday products.

We even created fun prototypes, like Foam Sweet Foam hand soap, Swipe Right make-up remover and Dishtroyer dish wash liquid, to show how our biosurfactants work in everyday products, making sustainability tangible and exciting.

Vote for AmphiStar and help us make the ingredients behind your daily essentials clean: safe for people, safe for nature.