What is shaving cream made of?
Shaving cream takes 7 things directly, among them palm oil, coconut oil, potassium hydroxide, water, glycerin and aluminum. Trace them back and you pass 15 made things on the way to 13 raw materials.
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What goes straight in
From the ground: 13 raw materials
- Water goes straight in
- Oil palm fruit through palm oil
- Coconuts through coconut oil
- Potash through potassium hydroxide
- Crude oil through propane
- Coal through aluminum
- Natural gas through propane
- Soybeans through glycerin, vegetable oil
- Rapeseed through glycerin, vegetable oil
- Clay through glycerin, vegetable oil
- Rock salt through glycerin, caustic soda
- Bauxite through aluminum, alumina
- Limestone through aluminum, alumina, quicklime