Soap and detergent Raw materials | Britannica
Soap and detergent Soap and detergent Raw materials: Fatty alcohols are important raw materials for anionic synthetic detergents. Development of commercially feasible methods in the 1930s for obtaining these provided a great impetus to syntheticdetergent production. The first fatty alcohols used in production of synthetic detergents were derived from body oil of the sperm or bottlenose ...