Toiletries, cleaning products and salad dressings to go up as prices of commodities surge to 2011 levels
The consumer goods giant Unilever has warned the price of its toiletries, cleaning products and salad dressings will rise in the coming months as it grapples with a surge in raw material costs that is on a scale not seen for a decade.
The maker of household brands, including Dove shampoo, Domestos bleach and Hellmann’s mayonnaise, said on Thursday that the big jump in the price of commodities such as crude, palm and soya bean oil, as well as higher transport and packaging costs, was eating into its profitability.
