Palm oil is found in many personal care and beauty products. Cleansing oils, lip treatments, moisturizers, body creams, etc. It’s also found in myriad processed foods and cleaning products on your grocery store shelves. 

While palm oil is an excellent ingredient for skincare, harvesting wild palm oil has devastated natural habitats for animals such as orangutans by clear-cutting essential tropical rainforests. Indonesian forests store more carbon than those of Brazil, making the deforestation there catastrophic for the environment worldwide. “Palm oil production is said to have been responsible for about 8% of the world’s deforestation between 1990 and 2008.” -BBC [1]

Luckily there are environmentally conscious companies that make products with sustainably sourced palm oil – meaning the palm oil is grown on farms. MADEWITH chooses to offer palm oil in products that have traceable, sustainable sources.