What is shampoo made of?
Shampoo takes 8 things directly, among them vegetable oil, ethylene, sulfuric acid, caustic soda, water and rock salt. Trace them back and you pass 18 made things on the way to 18 raw materials.
How shampoo is made See it on the map
What goes straight in
From the ground: 18 raw materials
- Water goes straight in
- Rock salt goes straight in
- Soybeans through vegetable oil
- Rapeseed through vegetable oil
- Clay through vegetable oil
- Natural gas through ethylene
- Sulfur through sulfuric acid
- Air through sulfuric acid
- Silica sand through silicone
- Oranges through perfume
- Vanilla pods through perfume
- Crude oil through vegetable oil, hexane
- Quartz through silicone, metallurgical silicon
- Coal through silicone, metallurgical silicon
- Timber through silicone, metallurgical silicon
- Corn through perfume, ethanol
- Sugarcane through perfume, ethanol
- Sugar beet through perfume, ethanol, baker's yeast, molasses
Made along the way: 12 things
Metals 1
Chemicals and fuels 8
Electronics 1
Food 2
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.