Bioenzymes 🦠🧫

What are Bioenzymes?

Bio enzymes are an organic solutions which are obtained by fermentation of fruit/vegetable peels, jaggery & water.

Basically,

These are perfectly natural cleaning solution to clean your home. They are also called Garbage Enzyme, Fruit Enzyme, Kitchen Waste Enzyme, and Fermented Fruit Juice. Since the process of making the Bio Enzyme is similar to the vinegar-making process, we can also call them natural cleaning vinegar.

So, a bio enzyme is produced by Bacteria 🙂

When you hear the word “BACTERIA,” you would normally think of some kind of disease or danger, but some bacteria are beneficial to human health and are helpful for cleaning. They are everywhere, in the soil, dust particles, and even the human body!  

There are two types of bacteria, pathogenic (the harmful bacteria) and non-pathogenic (the good bacteria). Bio-enzymes use good bacteria to digest stains, soils & malodours. 

How do the Bacteria do that?

How are Bio Enzymes different from other Chemical Cleaners?

• Good for Human Health: Bio enzymes are 100% natural and non-toxic. You don’t have to be careful of its fumes or other ways while using them. They are safe.
• Safer for Environmental Health: Bio enzymes have an amazing capacity to rejuvenate contaminated water. Each time you pour them into your drains, they help purify the water. They also help reduce the number of landfills and hence pollution.
• Residual Cleaning is the major difference between bio enzymes and other chemical cleaners. After the first application, the bio enzymes will keep working until the stains or soil are present and the surface is damp. After the stain is completely gone, the enzymes will either die or go into a dormant state. This benefit of residual cleaning cannot be experienced while using other cleaners. This activity of residual cleaning can continue from a few hours to a few days until the stains are entirely gone.
• Effective: Bio enzymes are more effective as the microbes can penetrate into tiny cracks & crevices and eliminate stains that even chemically strong cleaners cannot.
• Versatile: Bio enzymatic cleaners are highly versatile and work on various surfaces and stains. From handwash to hair wash, dish wash to toilet cleaner, and from automobile care to pet care, you can use it for almost any purpose.
• Economical: You can get it at a very affordable price from online stores and find it even cheaper if you make it at home.
• Diversion of Waste: Producing more and more bio enzymes helps reduce the amount of waste that goes to landfills. Thus most of the waste gets diverted.
• Good Scent: You can scent it as you like by using essential oils or natural herbs:)
• And most importantly, you should use them because they are soft on you & softer on nature.

How to Make Bioenzymes at Home?

The most important thing here is to remember the ratio of 1:3:10 or, to make it better, 15:1:3:10 where  

Fifteen denotes the volume of the container.

Ten ratio denotes the water

One ratio denotes the Jaggery 

Three ratios denote the fruit/vegetable peels or your kitchen waste

You can use black or brown jaggery, block jaggery, round jaggery, powdered jaggery, crystalline jaggery, palm jaggery, or country sugar.

1.First of all, you need an airtight plastic container that can hold 15 parts of water. Add 10 parts of water. For example, if you have 180 grams of peels, you can use 60g of jaggery and 600ml of water

2.To the container, add 1 part of Jaggery; it is used in small quantities & helps accelerate the fermentation process. The microbes need it to survive, so you can use any type of jaggery. Make sure you only use jaggery and not white sugar.

3.Add 3 parts of fresh Kitchen Waste. Mainly use citrus peels if making the enzyme to use as cleaners for the home. If preparing it for home gardening or farming purposes, you can use your fresh kitchen waste, including pulpy fruit peels, watery fruit peels, vegetable peels, leaves & flowers.

Some fruits/vegetable peels can be avoided to make home cleaners, such as onion, garlic, radish, cabbage, and cauliflower, as all of these contain sulfurous compounds that add a pungent flavor to the dishes. After fermentation, their foul smell will enhance & cause discomfort.

Apart from these, pomegranate, beetroot, and raw banana peels should also be avoided due to their staining properties.

4.Always maintain 5% to 20% free space in the container when starting a new batch. Why maintain this space is explained in “About the Fermentation Process in detail.”

5.Ferment it for three months in anaerobic conditions. That’s it!

About the Fermentation Process:-

A.During the first 30 days 

Keep releasing the gases by opening the lid once daily. Recap the lid tightly as and when you open the lid to release the gases. You can also shake the container if possible to mix the contents well. This period is called catalysis, and during catalysis, a combination of complex gases are produced that have to be released into the atmosphere. After releasing the gases during the first 30 days, keep the container in an airtight position for the next 60 days and release the gases if necessary.

B.During the 60 days

There is no more need to release the gases daily. As the number of gases produced will be very less, you can do it once or twice a week. After the 90th day, you will see a white layer on the surface and the peels settling down, showing that the enzyme is ready to use.

C.After 90 days

Strain the contents to separate the clear liquid and decomposed peels. The peels can be blended in a blender with little water to make a thick pulp. The strained liquid can be called clear vinegar (clear enzyme), and the thick pulp can be called pulpy vinegar (thick pulpy vinegar). Store both liquids in airtight plastic bottles.

The thick pulp obtained can be used as a starter or culture to start the next batch of bio enzymes. This way, the time the next batch will take to get ready will be half, i.e., 45 days. You can use 5% as a starter for the next batch. The number of gases released now will be generated for 15 days instead of 30 days, and the container can be kept in an airtight position for 30 days instead of 60 days.

How to Find out whether the Bioenzyme has progressed well?

The best way to determine whether the bio enzyme is ready or not is that it should have a white mold or a white layer formed on the surface. This indicates that it is good to use. At the end of 90 days, the peels also settle down.

But, if there’s a black mold on the surface of the contents or maggots found in the enzyme, it indicates that the contents have been affected by bad bacteria, which isn’t suitable for usage. You need not discard the contents. All you need to do is re-add the same jaggery ratio into the contents that were first added during batching of the Bio Enzymes. Keep stirring the contents for a few days (less than 30 days). The black mold would disappear.

If the Bio Enzymes get a pale green mold on the surface, leaving a stench, it indicates that it has gone bad and it is time to dispose of them in a drain or soil. Discarding the contents clean, rinse the container, and restart a fresh batch of Bio Enzymes.

Causes of Fungus in Bio Enzymes

In the case of molds, the container may not have been airtight during the next 60 days, resulting in the contents going bad. It’s better to use plastic bottles or cans with the cap screwed on and release the pressure 2 times a day than to leave the cap unfastened. Just Loosen the cap enough to let all the surplus out, then retighten immediately; like this, you’re not letting any significant amount of oxygen in.

If too much oxygen gets in and the yeast stops fermenting, your nutrient-rich liquid becomes the perfect breeding ground for all bacteria. Yes, you can re-add some amount of jaggery and get rid of the bad bacteria, but the better remedy is to keep the oxygen out in the first place rather than add more sugar.

If You Want Bioenzymes for your routine work Like:- Floor cleaner,Toilet Cleaner,Dish washer, Laundry wash, Kitchen cleaner, Auto care,petcare etc. 

We will make it for u as much as low cost then market rate pure and without any type of contamination. 

just mail and give your order. about your quantity and as per your requirement.

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References:- 

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2.Chawla, H.S.

Introduction to plant biotechnology/H.S. Chawla.--2nd ed.

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