Coconut oil and Fatty alcohols

Coconut oil is a raw material for fatty alcohols; their prices have moved together.

Coconut oil (commodity) and Fatty alcohols (chemical): 2 relationships.

How they are linked

1. Feedstock

Physical flow · Direct · Coconut oil → Fatty alcohols

Fatty alcohols is made from coconut oil: it is one of the raw materials its production routes start from.

2. Price link: derived product

Cost and price · Strong · Both ways

Coconut oil is a lauric oil, the preferred feedstock for fatty alcohols used in detergents and shampoos. The proxy is the palm kernel oil price, a direct lauric rival, so the link is very close: monthly moves correlate at 0.79 and yearly moves at 0.93.

• 0.79 monthly change correlation
• 0.93 12-month change correlation
• 0.92 fitted elasticity

Built from the site data on production routes, energy flows, industry value chains, input-output tables and prices.