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Palm Oil in our Beauty Products


Image result for palm oil treePalm oil production is a huge issue that is having a harmful effect on our environment. It can be found in many of our beauty products like shampoo, soap, body creams and lipstick and much more. I wanted to bring some more awareness so people can make a conscious effort to reduce purchasing products with palm oil and start buying more palm oil free items.
According to an article by the Metro if these ingredients are listed on the product then it contains palm oil: “Vegetable Oil, Vegetable Fat, Palm Kernel, Palm Kernel Oil, Palm Fruit Oil, Palmate, Palmitate, Palmolein, Glyceryl, Stearate, Stearic Acid, Elaeis Guineensis, Palmitic Acid, Palm Stearine, Palmitoyl Oxostearamide, Palmitoyl Tetrapeptide-3, Sodium Laureth Sulfate, Sodium Lauryl Sulfate, Sodium Kernelate, Sodium Palm Kernelate, Sodium Lauryl Lactylate/Sulphate, Hyrated Palm Glycerides, Etyl Palmitate, Octyl Palmitate, Palmityl Alcohol.” It is important to read the ingredients of the products we purchase to try and avoid these. 
According to an article in The Week, the production of palm oil is responsible for about 8% of the world’s deforestation in just 18 years. This a shocking figure and will only increase if something doesn’t change. “According to the World Wildlife Fund, an area the equivalent size of 300 football fields of rainforest is cleared each hour to make way for palm oil production.”
I hope to raise more awareness of what effect palm oil production is having on our environment. There are plenty of alternatives available and if we make the conscious effort to reduce our usage of palm oil then a sustainable effort of palm oil production could be put in place.
Luckily some brands have eliminated palm oil from their beauty products which I will leave some links to below. If you enjoyed this post, I can do another post more detailed about what brands are palm oil free.
Some Palm oil free brands:
https://www.phbethicalbeauty.co.uk/
https://www.odylique.co.uk/
https://www.honestycosmetics.co.uk/
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