💥WHO’S WITH ME - BOYCOTT PALMOIL 💥
Product categories to avoid
•Chocolate, candy and biscuits: KitKat, Smarties, Aero, Oreo, Cadbury, Toblerone, Hershey’s products, M&M’s and similar confectionery often contain palm oil.[greenpeace +2]
•Crisps and savoury snacks: Doritos, Ritz crackers, Walkers/Lay’s, Cheetos and other PepsiCo/Frito-Lay or Mondelez snack brands.[greenpeace +2]
•Margarine, bakery goods and processed foods: many margarines, cookies, pastries, frozen foods, instant noodles and ready meals use palm oil or palm-derived fats.[rainforest-rescue +1]
•Shampoo, conditioner and body wash: Pantene, Herbal Essences, Head & Shoulders, Dove, Johnson’s Baby Lotion and many mass-market personal-care products.[greenpeace +1]
•Toothpaste and soap: Colgate toothpaste and Colgate-Palmolive personal-care lines have been named in palm-oil campaigns.[greenpeace +1]
•Cosmetics and skincare: L’Oréal, Avon and many lipsticks, creams, foundations and sunscreens can contain palm-derived emollients and surfactants.[londontheinside +1]
•Laundry detergent, cleaning products and dish soap: many conventional detergents and household cleaners use palm-derived surfactants.[rainforest-rescue +1]
•Candles: many cheap paraffin/vegetable-wax candles use palm wax or palm-oil derivatives.[rainforest-rescue]
•“Biofuels” and palm-oil-based energy products: palm oil is also used in fuels and energy applications.[rainforest-rescue]
•Meat and dairy from industrial systems: these are not always direct palm-oil products, but palm and soy feed can link industrial animal agriculture to tropical-deforestation pressure.[regeneration +1]
Companies often named in campaigns
•Mondelez: Oreo, Ritz, Cadbury, Toblerone, Philadelphia.[londontheinside +1]
•Nestlé: KitKat, Smarties, Aero, Nespresso and other confectionery/coffee products.[ethicalconsumer +1]
•PepsiCo: Pepsi, Doritos, Walkers/Lay’s, Cheetos, Tropicana, Gatorade.[londontheinside +1]
•Unilever: Dove, Ben & Jerry’s, many soaps and shampoos.[greenpeace +1]
•Procter & Gamble: Pantene, Herbal Essences, Head & Shoulders and household brands.[greenpeace +1]
•Colgate-Palmolive: Colgate, Palmolive and related oral/personal-care products.[greenpeace +1]
•Kellogg’s: Pop-Tarts and other cereal/snack brands.[greenpeace +1]
•Mars: M&M’s, Snickers and other chocolate/confectionery products.[greenpeace +1]
•Hershey: chocolate and candy products.[ethicalconsumer +1]
•L’Oréal and Avon: cosmetics and personal-care products.[londontheinside +1]
Read labels for hidden palm oil
Look beyond “palm oil” for these common ingredient names: palmitate, palmate, palmitic acid, palm olein, palm stearine, stearic acid, stearate, glyceryl, cetyl/cetearyl alcohol, sodium lauryl sulfate (SLS), sodium laureth sulfate, and ingredients beginning with laur-, stear-, glyc- or palm-.
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