Oil palms grow best in low-lying, warm and humid areas around the equator, precisely where tropical rainforests thrive, but also in the hot savannah regions of Central Africa and Latin America. The creation of palm oil plantations has led to large-scale deforestation, especially in Indonesia and Malaysia.
What's the problem with palm oil?
Hectares of trees are being cut down, with all the consequences that come with it:
- Local people and endangered animals lose their habitat
- The destruction of forests and the draining of peatlands create highly flammable areas. As a result, Indonesia literally goes up in flames every year. The suffocating smoke causes serious health problems for hundreds of thousands of people.
- Deforestation, which often goes hand in hand with fierce forest fires, releases a lot of CO2. This makes the climate on Earth change even faster.
- The use of pesticides on the plantations completely exhausts the soil and causes irreparable damage.
All our products are palm oil-free, we use heavenly oils 😏