Great news for you, the Beauty and the Bees client, and the Orangutans whose habitat is being destroyed!

We have, since the inception of the business 16 years ago, used palm oil for it's valuable skin conditioning properties.

However, since the world also discovered it's value as a bio fuel, we have watched with horror the mounting toll that the rapacious, unscrupulous slash and burn cultivation of the oil palm has had on the orangutan population, primarily in Borneo and Sumatra.

We decided almost two years ago to act, and have replaced palm oil in all our formulations with raw coconut oil ( from the Pacific Islands)  and soy wax ( from the USA)  both skin loving oils with richly emollient properties - which are both in wide, long established, sustainable cultivation over a larger area of the developed world, so readily available.

We are now proudly 100% palm oil free, so as well as using only recycleable glass tin or paper packaging (plastics only where unavoidable such as inserts, caps and sprays) we are even more environmentally friendly.

PLEASE NOTE: In order to not blot our good environmental copybook however we will continue to use our current  labels which list palm oil as an ingredient until we have used all stocks,instead of wastefully destroying many hundreds of thousands of them.

When we reprint a range label we will then delete it as an ingredient.