Powerful detergents and cleaning agents require ingredients with specific functional properties in complex formulations. The production of these ingredients takes place within value chains involving numerous stakeholders and integrated facilities. Sustainable development of detergents, particularly the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, therefore, requires the collaboration of companies along the value chain. Key factors for this lie in the increasing use of circular raw materials from sustainable biomass, recycling, and carbon capture and utilization (CCU) sources, the transition of energy supply in production towards renewable energies, the establishment of new and more efficient processes for greenhouse gas reduction in production, as well as the development of ingredients and formulations that enable energy savings during consumer use. The further development of standards for calculating and exchanging company-specific, comparable product carbon footprints leads to increased transparency of emission sources along the value chain, enabling the sustainable management of raw material portfolios and development candidates in the future. The challenge lies in the development of capacities through economically and technically feasible greenhouse gas reduction measures towards net-zero emissions within the next maximum 25 years, which can only be achieved gradually. Through the use of mass balance, already implemented partial transitions at the company level can nevertheless be immediately and fully attributed to selected ingredients and customers within the value chain, making their effect visible and beneficial. Current developments will be presented using examples.