Is Palm Oil in Your Car?
Sadly, palm oil is now being explored as a fuel for transportation in diesel cars which can use up 10% vegetable oils and 1% palm oil. Further, biodiesel, an alternative fuel, is also increasingly using palm oil. Both of these will increase the demand for this unregulated and unsustainable product.
For information about palm oil in biodiesel fuels:
http://www.biodieselmagazine.com/articles/1755/assessing-the-engine-performance-of-palm-oil-biodiesel/
Biodiesel and Asia:
http://www.thejakartaglobe.com/archive/worlds-largest-biodiesel-plant-opens-in-singapore/427641/
The effects of palm oil and biodiesel on Africa:
http://yemalin.wordpress.com/2012/02/09/benin-large-scale-oil-palm-plantations-for-agrofuel/
Palm Oil and the Airline Industry:
http://www.dw.de/lufthansa-suspends-biofuel-test-flights/a-15661617-1
For information about palm oil in biodiesel fuels:
http://www.biodieselmagazine.com/articles/1755/assessing-the-engine-performance-of-palm-oil-biodiesel/
Biodiesel and Asia:
http://www.thejakartaglobe.com/archive/worlds-largest-biodiesel-plant-opens-in-singapore/427641/
The effects of palm oil and biodiesel on Africa:
http://yemalin.wordpress.com/2012/02/09/benin-large-scale-oil-palm-plantations-for-agrofuel/
Palm Oil and the Airline Industry:
http://www.dw.de/lufthansa-suspends-biofuel-test-flights/a-15661617-1
Palm Oil Pseudonyms
Find out what products contain palm oil and how to find alternative products without palm oil. From hand lotion to cosmetics and cookies – and even some “healthy” and organic items – palm oil is used in a variety of products we purchase every day, but the true cost of palm oil is the destruction of tropical forests. Oil palm plantations are expanding around the world as they clear rainforests to make way for larger and new palm production operations. The choices you make every day will help decrease the demand for products that contain palm oil and help increase demand for products from responsible companies. Encourage companies that use palm oil to use alternative oils or palm oil that comes 100% from sustainable plantations that have agreed not to destroy wildlife habitats. " -El Paso Zoo
Other Places You Wouldn't Expect to Find Palm Oil
Palm oil is used for so many purposes that its actually hard to believe where you might find palm oil in ordinary products in your home. One of the reasons palm oil is used so often in every day products is because of it makes products 'foam', which is an essential property of any toothpaste, shampoo or soap product, according to advertisers. That's why you'll find it in products from Dove soap to Tom's toothpaste and even in that crunchy staple, Dr. Bronner's bar soap (the liquid soap dos not contain palm oil). It might surprise you to find out that the products below do indeed, contain palm oil. This is a very small sampling of products.
H2ocean (an after care product for tattoos)
Dove lotions and soaps
Dial lotions and soaps
Paradise Gold -cocoa butter lotion
Aveeno Daily Moisturizers
Eucerin Original Moisturizers
Gold Bond Ultimate’s Line of Lotions
Nivea Original
Curel
Oil of Olay
Jergen's
Palmer's
Vaseline
Walgreens Products
Pearl Probiotics
Cetaphile
Tom's Toothpaste
Most commercially available toothpastes
Many dog foods, ice creams, shampoos, and milk substitutes
H2ocean (an after care product for tattoos)
Dove lotions and soaps
Dial lotions and soaps
Paradise Gold -cocoa butter lotion
Aveeno Daily Moisturizers
Eucerin Original Moisturizers
Gold Bond Ultimate’s Line of Lotions
Nivea Original
Curel
Oil of Olay
Jergen's
Palmer's
Vaseline
Walgreens Products
Pearl Probiotics
Cetaphile
Tom's Toothpaste
Most commercially available toothpastes
Many dog foods, ice creams, shampoos, and milk substitutes