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Household and personal care and Surfactants

Household and personal care depends on surfactants.

Household and personal care (industry) and Surfactants (chemical): 1 relationship.

How they are linked

1. Industry input

Physical flow · Criticality 3 of 5 · Surfactants → Household and personal care

3 of the enterprise types in Household and personal care depend on surfactants; for the most dependent, it rates 3 out of 5 on criticality.

  • 3 enterprise types depend on it
  • 3 of 5 highest criticality

Enterprise types that depend on it:

  • Surfactant and oleochemical producers: the product (criticality 3 of 5)
  • Brand owners and their factories: active base (criticality 3 of 5)
  • Contract and private-label manufacturers: base (criticality 2 of 5)

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