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Here are some of the things that can be produced using Palm Oil:
- Ingredient for cooking oil
- Ingredients or mixture for biofuels which are more eco-friendly, cleans diesel engines from deposits including from combustion.
- As an oil and lubricant (usually to lubricate the outer part of engines and can also be used as a mixture for engine oil in two-stroke engines.
- Ingredient for various foods (Oleo-margarine for butter, ice cream, chocolate, peanut butter creamers, cakes, snacks, and crackers)
- Ingredients for cosmetics (Hair pomade, lotions, skin products, dentifrice, soap, shampoo and more)
- To cool down burns (with or without egg whites)
- Help to neutralize spiciness in food
- The raw material for paint, dyes
- The raw material for cleaning solutions
- Ingredient for putty
- As a feed for animals (taken from solid waste from oil palm fruits processing)
- As a raw material in steelmaking (to coat steel and iron to increase their resistance to rust)
- Can help in tanning leather
- Material for furniture (trunks from replanting programs)
- To make compost (organic waste from fruit, bunches, and leaves)
- To make biomass (solid and liquid waste from oil palm processing)
- Component of various elements (such octyl palmitate, palmytil alcohol, Palm kernel oil, palm fruit oil, stearine, cetyl alcohol, emulsifiers, glyceryl stearate, lauryl sulfate, sodium kernelate, and stearic acid)