Fatty alcohols and Surfactants

Their prices have moved together.

Fatty alcohols (chemical) and Surfactants (chemical): 1 relationship.

How they are linked

1. Price link: natural feedstock

Cost and price · Weak · Both ways

Fatty alcohols from palm kernel or coconut oil are the backbone of sulphates and ethoxylates. The palm kernel oil proxy correlates poorly with the US index, at -0.13 monthly and 0.17 yearly, as that index carries many petrochemical surfactants.

• -0.13 monthly change correlation
• 0.17 12-month change correlation
• 0.26 fitted elasticity

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