What are candles made of?
Candles take paraffin wax, cotton yarn and sewing thread directly. Trace them back and you pass 14 made things on the way to 9 raw materials.
How candles are made See it on the map
What goes straight in
From the ground: 9 raw materials
- Crude oil through paraffin wax
- Raw cotton through cotton yarn
- Water through sewing thread
- Natural gas through paraffin wax, hydrogen
- Air through sewing thread, polyester, PET plastic, ethylene glycol, oxygen gas
- Corn through sewing thread, polyester, PET plastic, ethylene glycol, carbon dioxide
- Limestone through sewing thread, polyester, PET plastic, ethylene glycol, carbon dioxide
- Sugarcane through sewing thread, polyester, PET plastic, ethylene glycol, carbon dioxide, baker's yeast, molasses
- Sugar beet through sewing thread, polyester, PET plastic, ethylene glycol, carbon dioxide, baker's yeast, molasses
Made along the way: 11 things
Chemicals and fuels 7
Plastics and fibers 2
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.