But you don't have to give up products containing palm oil! Avoiding palm oil could have worse effects because it might take support away from companies that are trying hard to improve the situation.

But you don't have to give up products containing palm oil! Avoiding palm oil could have worse effects because it might take support away from companies that are trying hard to improve the situation.

Palm oil is in nearly everything – it’s in close to 50% of the packaged products we find in supermarkets, everything from pizza, doughnuts and chocolate, to deodorant, shampoo, toothpaste and lipstick ...

To keep up to date with the palm oil debate, visit wwf.org.uk and rspo.org – and see our pick (below) of the products containing sustainably sourced palm oil, or none at all. Most candles ...

then support sustainably produced palm oil and avoid boycotts. Boycotts call for us to avoid purchasing all products containing palm oil. However, we know that palm oil is a very efficient oil and ...

Palm oil can be found in frozen pizzas, biscuits and margarine, as well as body creams, soaps, makeup ... settlements have been destroyed and replaced by “green deserts” containing virtually no ...

Three-quarters of total palm oil produced is used for food, particularly cooking oil and processed oils and fats. It is also used in cosmetics, cleaning products and biofuel. Between 1980 and 2014, ...

Supermarket giant Iceland has continued to sell own-brand products containing palm oil despite pledging to stop doing so by the end of 2018. The retailer made the promise last April, saying demand ...

Iceland blamed a "website issue" after the BBC was able to find 28 own-brand products for sale online containing palm oil. Many of the products online were later removed by the retailer ...

Palm oil is less appealing as a biodiesel feedstock due to the weaker crude oil futures. Intertek Testing Services, a cargo surveyor, said that exports of Malaysian products containing palm oil for ...

Throughout the 1800s, British traders imported African palm oil, using it for a growing number of products, from soap to margarine to candles. Once scientists discovered how to isolate glycerin ...