Unilever Wants You to Wash the Stains You Can’t See
- New laundry liquid promises to clean well in 15 minute wash
- CEO Hein Schumacher launched turnaround plan in October
A liter of sweat, a gram of salt, a billion dead skin cells, 15 grams of body oil, plus extra cellular DNA. That’s what the human body sheds every day, according to Keith Rutherford, innovation boss for the homecare unit of Unilever Plc.
It’s a cocktail of emissions that’s mostly invisible, meaning that even when clothes aren’t stained they may not be clean, he said, speaking at a lab in Northern England.