# Fatty alcohols and Surfactants

Their prices have moved together.

Source page: https://www.materialinsights.org/links/fatty-alcohols-and-surfactants/

[Fatty alcohols](https://www.materialinsights.org/chemicals/fatty_alcohols/) (chemical) and [Surfactants](https://www.materialinsights.org/chemicals/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

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