Coconut oil and Surfactants

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

Coconut oil (commodity) and Surfactants (chemical): 2 relationships.

How they are linked

1. Feedstock

Physical flow · Direct · Coconut oil → Surfactants

Surfactants 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 · Weak · Both ways

Many surfactants for soaps and shampoos are made from coconut-derived fatty alcohols and acids. The surfactants index barely follows coconut oil, with monthly moves at minus 0.04 and yearly moves at 0.18, because petrochemical inputs and long contracts set most of its price.

• -0.04 monthly change correlation
• 0.18 12-month change correlation
• 1.19 fitted elasticity

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