Dishwashing Product Development
Specialist dishwashing product development from concept to commercial formulation
d-labs develops dishwashing formulations for companies creating new products, improving existing products or seeking to compete more effectively against established market benchmarks.
Development can cover both automatic and manual dishwashing products, with formulations built around defined cleaning performance, cost, stability, ingredient, sustainability and manufacturing requirements.
Dishwashing Formulation Capabilities
Dishwashing formulations developed for different formats, markets and performance targets
d-labs develops dishwashing formulations across both automatic and manual dishwashing categories, with projects built around the required cleaning performance, cost, stability, ingredient profile and manufacturing requirements.
Automatic dishwashing tablets
Development of tablet formulations designed around cleaning performance, glass and dish care, low-temperature efficacy, stability and cost targets.
Automatic dishwashing powders
Powder formulation development for effective soil removal, machine compatibility, storage stability and commercial manufacture.
Automatic dishwashing liquids
Development of liquid automatic dishwashing products, including concentrated and specialist formats where foam control, enzyme compatibility and temperature stability are critical.
Manual dishwashing liquids
Formulation of hand dishwashing products balancing grease removal, foam profile, rinsing, skin feel, fragrance, viscosity and cost.
Concentrated & alternative formats
Development of higher-concentration or novel dishwashing formats designed to reduce packaging, dosage or transported water.
Specialist dishwashing products
Formulations designed around specific use cases, performance requirements, ingredient constraints or differentiated market propositions.
Development Objectives
Dishwashing formulations developed around the performance that matters
d-labs develops dishwashing products around the technical and commercial requirements of the brief, balancing cleaning performance with factors such as cost, stability, user experience, ingredient constraints and manufacturing practicality.
Cleaning performance
Optimise removal of relevant food soils, grease, starch, protein and other residues under appropriate test conditions.
Cost
Balance raw-material cost against the required performance level and intended market positioning.
Stability
Develop formulations to remain physically and chemically stable throughout the intended shelf life and expected storage conditions.
Foam & user experience
Control foam profile, rinsing, feel and other use characteristics relevant to manual or automatic dishwashing products.
Ingredient requirements
Develop around preferred raw materials, ingredient restrictions, sustainability targets or specific formulation constraints.
Manufacturing practicality
Consider processing, raw-material handling, scale-up and production requirements so the formulation can be manufactured reliably.
The best formulation is the one that achieves the required performance while still working commercially in the real world.
Development & Performance Testing
Dishwashing formulations developed against measured performance
d-labs combines formulation development with in-house dishwashing performance testing, allowing prototype formulations to be evaluated against relevant benchmark products throughout the development process.
Testing can be tailored to automatic or manual dishwashing applications and designed around the specific performance questions that matter to the project — from food soil removal and grease cutting through to rinsing, foam behaviour and overall consumer-relevant performance.
This allows formulation changes to be assessed objectively, helping identify which changes genuinely improve performance and where trade-offs are occurring between cleaning, cost, stability and product experience.
Selected Dishwashing Development Projects
Dishwasher tablet development to outperform the market leader
A household products company approached d-labs to develop a dishwasher tablet capable of delivering superior performance to the established market-leading product.
The client’s existing product delivered only moderate performance, so d-labs developed and evaluated successive formulations against the benchmark, using comparative performance testing to guide optimisation.
The resulting formulation achieved superior performance to the market leader while remaining within the client’s required cost and development timeframe.
Superior Performance
Achieved against the target market benchmark.
Commercial cost target
Developed within the required formulation budget.
Market recognition
The commercial product subsequently received a “Recommended” rating from a leading publication.
Start a Dishwashing Development Project
Have a dishwashing product idea or formulation challenge?
d-labs can help develop a new manual or automatic dishwashing product, improve an existing formulation or solve specific performance, cost, stability or manufacturing challenges.