Palm Oil Cosmetics & Pharmaceutical Products

Saturday 15 August 2009
I subscribe to MongaBay Weekly Newsletter dedicated to environmentalism and preservation of Mother Nature. An article in the August 13 issue reported that LUSH Cosmetics., a leading cosmetics-maker, will no longer use Palm Oil due to environmental concerns over its production. LUSH, which is now selling a palm oil-free soap, has launched a two-pronged campaign to make consumers aware of the impact of palm oil cultivation on tropical forests and encourage other consumer product companies, including Procter & Gamble, Unilever and Nestle to reformulate their products using alternatives to palm oil.
This is not favourable to palm oil at all. If the big consumers of palm oil like P&G, Unilever and Nestle were to stop using palm oil in their formulations, it will have an impact on our export figures. But we do hope that these big players will brush aside Lush's campaign because these companies know better that palm oil is the best oil for their products, and in some cases, palm oil is an irreplaceable ingredient to maintain product quality. No oil does it better than Palm Oil.