None of our products directly contain palm oil, but some of them contain an amount of palm oil derivatives. These are notoriously challenging to eradicate from the global industry so it’s vital we can trace those amounts. The majority of our raw materials that contain palm oil derivatives are certified by RSPO as either ‘Segregated’ or ‘Mass Balanced’ and we’re working on the rest — we still agonise over its use.
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. So 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.
