Palm oil and palm kernel oil or palm kernel oil are saturated vegetable oils obtained from oil palms, mainly Elaeis guineensis but also from Elaeis oleifera and Attalea maripa. In 2007, with 28 million tons of global production, it was the second most produced edible oil, after soybean oil, which it may now have surpassed. It is also an important component or raw material of many soaps, detergent powders and personal care products and sodium or potassium soaps and the simple esters of its fatty acids such as isopropyl palmitate are often used for these uses; has found a controversial new use as an agro-energy fuel. From the fruit of the oil palm, palm oil (from the fruit) and palm kernel oil (from its seeds) are obtained: both are solid or semi-solid at room temperature, but with a fractionation process they can be separated into a liquid component (oil palm tree, used for frying) and solid.