What can you do, as a consumer, about palm oil destruction?

As consumers, we can decide the type of world we want to live in simply by choosing what we buy. Palm oil is present in over 50% of products on store shelves. From shampoos to high end facial creams to chocolates. It will take some diligence on your part to find out exactly what brands use palm oil in their products.

Visit our page of Responsible Brands

Find out more about products you can trust to be palm free

Check out these handy links!

Helpful Tools and Organizations

From the El Paso Zoo, a FREE handy smart phone app for both Android and iphones.

Auckland Zoo in New Zealand A printable palm oil free shopping guide handy wallet sized card.

From the Ethical Consumer UK and the Rainforest Foundation UK information on brands that use palm oil

Australian consumers can keep an eye out for a new smart phone app being developed by Palm Oil Investigations.

Relevant Articles

Growing Pains: Why Companies Need to Learn to Eat Their Vegetables and Move Beyond GreenPalm Certificates

Consumer groups slam greenwashing in sustainable palm oil marketing

JOIN THE UNLESS PROJECT Philadelphia Zoo calls green palm a good tool, but a bad strategy

"At the moment, the RSPO cannot guarantee that CSPO is not contributing to deforestation. Consumers are not getting what they expect"

Americans should demand transparency about where the palm oil in all consumer products comes from

Institutional Investors pressure Palm Oil companies to stop deforesting

Read about our Change.org Petition 

Read about the slaughter of orangutans by palm oil plantations owned by the Makin Group

Read about Herakles Farms in Cameroon, Africa

Read about land demarcation by Herakles Farms in Cameroon