What is glycerin made of?
Glycerin takes palm oil, vegetable oil, caustic soda and methanol directly. Trace them back and you pass 6 made things on the way to 8 raw materials.
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What goes straight in
From the ground: 8 raw materials
- Oil palm fruit through palm oil
- Water through methanol
- Soybeans through vegetable oil
- Rapeseed through vegetable oil
- Clay through vegetable oil
- Rock salt through caustic soda
- Natural gas through methanol
- Crude oil through vegetable oil, hexane