• Enzymes are used in cleaning products as cleaning and fabric care agents.

• Most of the used enzyme types breakdown large, water-insoluble soils and stains which are attached to e.g. fabrics, into smaller, more water-soluble pieces. 
• The enzyme does not loose its functionality after having worked on one stain and continues to work on the next one. Some enzymes also deliver fabric care benefits by e.g. better maintaining whiteness or keeping colours bright.

The most important reasons to use enzymes in detergents are
i) that a very small quantity of these inexhaustible bio-catalysts can replace very large quantity of man made chemicals


ii) enzymes can work at very low temperature at which traditional chemistry quite often is no longer effective

iii) they are fully biodegradable. All these characteristics make enzymes - on top of their high efficiency - environmentally friendly ingredients. 

•  Enzymes are proteins, composed of hundred of amino-acids, which are produced by living organisms.

• They are responsible for a number of reactions and biological activities in plants, animals, human beings and micro-organisms.

• They are found in the human digestive system to break down carbohydrates (sugars), fats or proteins present in food.

Each enzyme is a made of a sequence of amino acids .Only a small part of the enzyme participates in the catalysis of biochemical reactions: the active site . 


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