# Surfactants and Wool

Their prices have moved together.

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

[Surfactants](https://www.materialinsights.org/chemicals/surfactants/) (chemical) and [Wool](https://www.materialinsights.org/commodities/wool/) (commodity): 1 relationship.

## How they are linked

### 1. Price link: processing input

*Cost and price · Weak · Both ways*

Raw wool is greasy and must be scoured with detergents before spinning, so surfactants are a processing cost. They do not drive the wool price: monthly moves correlate at 0.03 and yearly moves at 0.25.

- **0.03** monthly change correlation
- **0.25** 12-month change correlation
- **0.42** fitted elasticity

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