None of our products directly contain palm oil, but 12 out of the 115 ingredients on our list contain palm oil derivatives – and all of these are certified by the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO). These derivatives are notoriously challenging to eradicate from the global industry, so it’s vital we can trace them. We still agonise over the use of palm oil derivatives and are constantly looking for less impactful alternatives.
Palm’s big problem is that it’s so efficient. In other words, to produce the same amount of oil from, say, sunflowers would require 20 times the land mass. It’s an incredibly complicated issue and one we wish there was an easy answer for.
After lengthy consideration of the alternatives, we feel that the sustainable palm oil derivatives are both the best ecological and ethical solution at this moment in time.
In order to help protect and preserve rainforests destroyed by non-RSPO-approved palm oil, we work in partnership with Sumatran Orangutan Society (SOS) to educate and empower local people to protect their land. You can read more about this on our Sustainability Page. Our current approach is recommended by WWF.
