What is deodorant made of?
Deodorant takes 10 things directly, among them aluminum, hydrochloric acid, paraffin wax, vegetable oil, silicone and perfume. Trace them back and you pass 25 made things on the way to 20 raw materials.
How deodorant is made See it on the map
What goes straight in
- Aluminumat Make the aluminum salt
- Hydrochloric acidat Make the aluminum salt
- Paraffin waxat Melt the stick base
- Vegetable oilat Melt the stick base
- Siliconeat Stir in the actives
- Perfumeat Stir in the actives
- Polypropyleneat Pour into tubes
- Ethanolat Dissolve for sprays
- Waterat Dissolve for sprays
- Natural gasat Charge the aerosol cans
From the ground: 20 raw materials
- Water goes straight in
- Natural gas goes straight in
- Crude oil through paraffin wax
- Coal through aluminum
- Soybeans through vegetable oil
- Rapeseed through vegetable oil
- Clay through vegetable oil
- Silica sand through silicone
- Oranges through perfume
- Vanilla pods through perfume
- Corn through ethanol
- Sugarcane through ethanol
- Bauxite through aluminum, alumina
- Rock salt through hydrochloric acid, chlorine
- Quartz through silicone, metallurgical silicon
- Timber through silicone, metallurgical silicon
- Limestone through aluminum, alumina, quicklime
- Sulfur through hydrochloric acid, chlorine, sulfuric acid
- Air through hydrochloric acid, chlorine, sulfuric acid
- Sugar beet through ethanol, baker's yeast, molasses
Made along the way: 17 things
Metals 2
Chemicals and fuels 12
Petroleum cokeChlorineHydrogenHexaneMethanolPropyleneEthyleneCaustic sodaQuicklimeSulfuric acidCharcoalNaphtha
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.