What is hairspray made of?
Hairspray takes polyvinylpyrrolidone, plasticizer, ethanol, perfume, tinplate and propane directly. Trace them back and you pass 29 made things on the way to 18 raw materials.
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What goes straight in
From the ground: 18 raw materials
- Natural gas through propane
- Water through perfume
- Air through plasticizer
- Corn through ethanol
- Sugarcane through ethanol
- Oranges through perfume
- Vanilla pods through perfume
- Crude oil through propane
- Tin ore through tinplate, tin
- Sugar beet through ethanol, baker's yeast, molasses
- Iron ore through tinplate, steel, manganese
- Limestone through tinplate, steel, quicklime
- Dolomite through tinplate, steel, magnesium
- Manganese ore through tinplate, steel, manganese
- Coal through tinplate, tin, coke
- Quartz through tinplate, steel, magnesium, metallurgical silicon
- Timber through tinplate, steel, magnesium, metallurgical silicon
- Sulfur through tinplate, steel, manganese, sulfuric acid
Made along the way: 23 things
Metals 7
Chemicals and fuels 13
FormaldehydeHydrogenAmmoniaHydrogen peroxideNaphthaPropyleneEthyleneMethanolOxygen gasQuicklimeArgonSulfuric acidCharcoal