What is sunscreen made of?
Sunscreen takes 7 things directly, among them zinc, titanium dioxide, crude oil, vegetable oil, paraffin wax and water. Trace them back and you pass 14 made things on the way to 13 raw materials.
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What goes straight in
From the ground: 13 raw materials
- Crude oil goes straight in
- Water goes straight in
- Zinc ore through zinc
- Air through zinc
- Titanium ore through titanium dioxide
- Soybeans through vegetable oil
- Rapeseed through vegetable oil
- Clay through vegetable oil
- Sulfur through titanium dioxide, sulfuric acid
- Rock salt through titanium dioxide, chlorine
- Coal through titanium dioxide, coke
- Natural gas through paraffin wax, hydrogen
- Oil palm fruit through glycerin, palm oil
Made along the way: 9 things
Metals 1
Chemicals and fuels 7
Food 1
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.