What is dish soap made of?
Dish soap takes water, table salt and perfume directly. Trace them back and you pass 8 made things on the way to 10 raw materials.
How dish soap is made See it on the map
What goes straight in
From the ground: 10 raw materials
- Water goes straight in
- Rock salt through table salt
- Seawater through table salt
- Oranges through perfume
- Vanilla pods through perfume
- Corn through perfume, ethanol
- Sugarcane through perfume, ethanol
- Natural gas through perfume, ethanol, ethylene
- Sugar beet through perfume, ethanol, baker's yeast, molasses
- Crude oil through perfume, ethanol, ethylene, naphtha
Made along the way: 6 things
Chemicals and fuels 4
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.