What is soap made of?
Soap takes palm oil, vegetable oil, caustic soda, water, rock salt and glycerin directly. Trace them back and you pass 7 made things on the way to 8 raw materials.
How soap is made See it on the map
What goes straight in
From the ground: 8 raw materials
- Water goes straight in
- Rock salt goes straight in
- Oil palm fruit through palm oil
- Soybeans through vegetable oil
- Rapeseed through vegetable oil
- Clay through vegetable oil
- Crude oil through vegetable oil, hexane
- Natural gas through glycerin, methanol
Made along the way: 3 things
Chemicals and fuels 3
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.