The productions of biosurfactants, which are surface-active biomolecules are produced by bacteria, fungi, and yeast, has become popular recently due to its many advantages over chemical surfactants. These advantages include lower toxicity, higher biodegradability, and better compatibility with the environment, higher foaming, high selectivity, and specific activity at extreme temperatures, pH levels, and salinities. Nowadays, practically all surfactants on the market are made chemically. Due in large part to their many functional qualities and the various ways that microorganisms can be synthesized, interest in biosurfactants has increased recently. Microbial biosurfactants have been discovered to have a wide range of uses in environmental protection, including soil and oil-contaminated industrial effluent biodegradation, oil spill control, and improved oil recovery. Microbial biosurfactants have potential use in food, cosmetics, oil, pharmaceutical/medicine, and biodegradation industries. Three key areas were covered in this review article: the many kinds of biosurfactants, the bacteria that produce the biosurfactants and the use of microbial biosurfactants.
Tharmaraj et al. (Thu,) studied this question.