# Sodium silicate and Surfactants

Their prices have moved together.

Source page: https://www.materialinsights.org/links/sodium-silicate-and-surfactants/

[Sodium silicate](https://www.materialinsights.org/chemicals/sodium_silicate/) (chemical) and [Surfactants](https://www.materialinsights.org/chemicals/surfactants/) (chemical): 1 relationship.

## How they are linked

### 1. Price link: shared use

*Cost and price · Strong · Both ways*

Sodium silicate is used with surfactants in detergents, so detergent demand drives both. The surfactants index correlates at 0.14 for monthly moves and 0.68 for yearly moves, a shared US chemicals cycle.

- **0.14** monthly change correlation
- **0.68** 12-month change correlation
- **0.86** fitted elasticity

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