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shared €1 million grant from the non-profit H&M longer soft, smooth, or with a sheen, the cuffs and adding chemicals just for aesthetics. BIORESTORE fibers. BIORESTORE is suitable for use across
Foundation for their efforts in helping the fashion collars become stretched & worn, and the overall fit has less than 5% ethoxylated fatty alcohol, 10-60% various garments and textile products. BIORESTORE
industry become more planet positive. As a 2022 of the garment becomes shapeless and loose. granulated enzymes, sodium sulfate, 5 - 15% is not always a miracle worker, and there are certain
Global Change Award winner, BIORESTORE is However, the original garment & is not gone. It is non-ionic tensioner, sodium citrate, and adipic acid. things BIORESTORE cannot fix, including holes,
recognized as a disruptive innovation that addresses hidden under a thin layer of accumulated fiber tears, excessive garment damage, and needle holes.
one or several of the earth's global commons—land, bundles that obscure the original color and fabric BIORESTORE has been in development for several BIORESTORE has been designed to work with
water, oceans, climate, and biodiversity—helping the surface texture. Underneath this micro mass is a years. From the initial prototype until now, it has been cotton and cotton blends, as this is a massive part of

One wash with BIORESTORE can BIORESTORE is a safe product

bring the old clothes back to life. based on the enzyme which

BIORESTORE works at 40ºC effectively removes pills from fabric

industry get one step closer to reaching the UN's garment waiting for a second chance to avoid the thoroughly tested on all types of textile products and our clothing. This means that BIORESTORE will not
Sustainable Development Goals by 2030. In addition bottomless pit of a global landfill. This is where materials precisely the same way we would carry out work on 100% synthetic fibers or animal fibers such
BIORESTORE is a novel enzyme-based solution that to the financial grant, BIORESTORE will access the BIORESTORE comes into action and prevents landfill tests while developing products for large brands. as wool, cashmere, or silk.
gives old cotton clothes a new life with just one one-year GCA Impact Accelerator program provided and waste by renewing the garments. While all the elements in developing BIORESTORE
wash. Unlike laundry detergents that clean garments, by H&M Foundation in partnership with Accenture, The revolutionary product BIORESTORE is the one
BIORESTORE scientifically removes pilling from the KTH Royal Institute of Technology, and The Mills. From a scientific perspective, BIORESTORATION is a were selected consciously based on their safety & that could reduce the waste generation of textiles by
fabric's surface, improving color brilliance, realigning Physico-chemical process where the enzymes and eco-attributes, we went a step further. BIORESTORE renewing the fabrics. The recycling of clothes is also
the fibers, and reshaping the macrostructure. Over BIORESTORE is a Retergent that removes pilling / laundry machines help each other. The enzymatic was independently evaluated by a renowned global time and energy-consuming. Furthermore, a mix-up
time, repeatedly washing and regular use of clothing action targets the pills to weaken them, and the lab - INTERTEK achieving both REACH (EU) and of blended fibers with cellulose also offers significant
cause fabric to lose its color, sheen, shape, and centrifugal force provided by the machine detaches EPA TSCA & California Prop 65 US safety standards.
structure through a negative process of wear and & removes the fibers. Enzymes are available in recycling challenges and efficiency. However, with
BIORESTORE, only one wash is enough to save the
abundance in nature, acting as catalysts that speed BIORESTORE is created for use on cotton and garment from being dumped into the environment
up processes of transformation and conversion in cotton blended fabrics, meaning any garment from and recycling issues that could positively impact
billions of natural and organic processes. In one 100% Cotton to 50% Cotton blended with other
simple laundry process, by removing the obstructive the environment.
layer of fibers, BIORESTORE solves all of these
issues. Refreshing color, renewing print, removing
pilling, restoring shape, saving garments from the
back of the wardrobe, shameful wearing when no
one is looking, and life in the landfill. The most
significant benefit of enzymes is that they are smart
and genius, only activating under suitable conditions
Like humans, our clothes get old with time, laundry, and deactivating when those conditions are removed
and usage, resulting in a dull appearance, unsmooth or are not optimal. Simply during optimal conditions
surface, and lusterless color. This problem is more in tear called fibrillation. On a macro and micro level, at 40°C / 104°F, the movement and agitation of a
pure cellulosic fabrics followed by blends causing fibrillation becomes visible on the surface of home laundry wash with BIORESTORE, the active “All stories start as
the consumers to look for shopping again and throw garments as pills (also known as lint, fluff, or enzyme ingredients identify, target, and remove the
away the old clothes that once they loved or bobbles). This leads to colors looking dull, prints damaged, problem causing Pilling / Lint / Fluff fibers yarns, our starts as
someone gifted to them. The fashion industry is the appearing faded, the surface no longer soft or on the garment surface and deep inside the
second-largest polluter globally, just after the oil smooth, the cuffs and collars becoming stretched & Lint / Garment Fuzz /Bobbles from the surface, fabric structure. deep fibre analysis.”
industry. Moreover, the environmental damage is worn, and the overall fit of the garment becoming improving the color brilliance, realigning the fibers,
increasing as the industry grows. Also, cotton needs shapeless and loose. BIORESTORE is a powder and reshaping the macrostructure meaning the BIORESTORE is a retergent made with enzymes and
water, and it is estimated that about 20,000 liters of formula made with enzymes and consciously shape of the garment. Fibrillation is terrible news for consciously selected ingredients. In comparison to Richard Toon & Wajahat Hussain
water are needed to produce just 1kg of cotton. So selected ingredients. The enzymes are specific in garments on a macro and a micro level, with other Laundry Products often containing up to 29 Founders
what if we cant just renew our clothes with just ONE their action and only target the undesired fibrillations becoming visible on the garment's ingredients, BIORESTORE is limited & minimal
LAUNDRY! Is it possible? Yes! Brace yourself for problems/faults, leaving the fabric healthy. surface as pills/lint/fluff/bobbles. These lead to colors formulation of 6 essential ingredients only. Unlike
BIORESTORE, which is co-founded by a Pakisani looking dull, prints appearing faded, the surface no traditional laundry products, we have refrained from
CEO Wajahat Hussain along with Richard Toon. BIORESTORE is one of five innovations awarded a
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