What is nail polish made of?
Nail polish takes 7 things directly, among them raw cotton, wood pulp, nitric acid, sulfuric acid, plasticizer and titanium dioxide. Trace them back and you pass 17 made things on the way to 12 raw materials.
How nail polish is made See it on the map
What goes straight in
From the ground: 12 raw materials
- Raw cotton goes straight in
- Timber through wood pulp
- Water through sulfuric acid
- Air through plasticizer
- Sulfur through pigment
- Titanium ore through titanium dioxide
- Iron ore through pigment
- Rock salt through wood pulp, caustic soda
- Limestone through wood pulp, quicklime
- Natural gas through nitric acid, ammonia
- Crude oil through plasticizer, propylene
- Coal through titanium dioxide, coke
Made along the way: 11 things
Metals 1
Chemicals and fuels 10
What it is packed in
On the line, but left out of everything above, because it holds the finished thing rather than goes into it.