She has a great post up on the palm oil boom in Indonesia. It's a lot more detailed and informative than the post here on Nature Haters. Whereas I just hear about an issue, get angry about it, and post - it seems the lady that writes Thinking Shift actually researches the issues and structures her posts. I've stolen a part of the blog post here that I should have had in my post...
Palm oil is present in around 40% of products and is also labelled as any of the following:
- sodium lauryl sulphate
- sodium dodecyl sulphate
- hydrated palm glycerides
- palmate
- palm oil kernel
- palmitate
- cocoa butter equivalent (CBE)
- cocoa butter substitute (CBS)
- palm olein
- palm stearine
- hexadecylic or palmitic acid
If you use margarine, most likely the margarine is derived from palm oil. See if the emulsifier, E471, is listed because this is derived from palm oil. Likely suspects are also: Emulsifiers 422, 430-36, 470-8, 481-483, 493-5.
In cosmetics, soaps and detergents, palm oil is often labelled as:
- elais guineensis
- lyceryl stearate
- stearic acid
- sodium lauryl sulphate
- sodium laureth sulphate
- cetyl alcohol
- isopropyl
- steareth-2
- steareth-20
Another article I stumbled across on Thinking Shift was a well written piece on global warming. I really recommend going over there and reading both of these articles.
While I was looking around I also found out that Dove cosmetics uses palm oil sourced from one of the worst exploiters of Indonesia's rainforests for cheap palm oil. Here's a little re-make of one of Dove's ads.
I normally use Dove soap here at home. Not anymore...
Dove is the devil!!!
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