SUPPORT AND ACCLAMATION
BubbleNut Wash was recognised for our contribution towards the environment and employment generation among cultural minorities. The DBS Foundation’s social enterprise grant will be used to help the social enterprise expand its team and set up a solvent extraction unit to improve product offerings and production capacity. The grant was awarded to us in 2017 for converting a neglected agricultural product called soap nuts into a value-added product like detergents that do not pollute water bodies like other products using petrochemicals.
partnered with C-CAMP aims at providing fuel and support to young startups and entrepreneurial individuals. We were a part of the biotech funding programme in India and were selected as the winner of the grant among several other capable brands.
is an initiative of the Government of Karnataka, under the newly launched Start-up Policy of the government, to scout for new technologies or innovations that can offer solutions to some of the longstanding issues about the state of Karnataka. The 2017 grant won by us aimed at Water Conservation in Karnataka. We were picked as the winner of the grant among 400 other competitors.
works through its Fund for Young Entrepreneurs to support young people whose innovative projects and ideas have the potential to pave the way for self-sufficiency among smallholder farmers, and move agriculture toward more sustainable practices. Our company, not only won the grant but also harvested almost 16,000kg of soapnuts over 2016 and 2017, leading to an additional income of €62 per person using their technology and support.
by UNITED NATIONS has been our supporter by acknowledging our collaboration with marginalised women from indigenous forest communities in the ecologically sensitive areas in the Himalayas to procure soapnuts. With their support, we were able to replace 70,000 litres of non-biodegradable petro-chemical detergents with biodegradable ones and number-marked 3,000+ trees, making them less prone to being chopped down and sequester 60,000 kgs of GHG emissions per year.