A partnership with Palm Done Right links farming methods to sloth habitats. By Katherine Martinko If you take a trip to the Denver Zoo at some point over the next few months, you’ll see an adorable-looking pair of Linne’s two-toed sloths named Elliot and Charlotte. As they (and their baby Wookiee)…
Boulder, CO—Palm Done Right has partnered with Denver Zoo to encourage consumers to Shop Smart to Save Sloths. Sloth populations are threatened by unsustainable harvesting of palm trees, as the animals naturally inhabit tropical forests in South and Central America that are affected by deforestation. Denver Zoo is launching a new Sloth Exhibit this…
IndexBox: Streamed live on May 6, 2021 In March 2021, the futures price for crude palm oil reached its highest level of 954 US$/MT in 13 years, according to the Malaysian Palm Oil Council, March 23. This is due to limited supply from manufactures as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.…
About this series: Part 1: Palm Oil in Cosmetics. Part 2: The Future of Palm Oil. Gay Timmons has been in the agricultural business for decades. Twenty-one years ago she founded Oh, Oh Organic, selling organic ingredients—including palm oil—to cosmetic companies in North America. “The chemical industry is complacent,” says Timmons, a…
Looking into the future, we know that palm oil is here to stay. Palm and palm kernel oil are superior ingredients for the cosmetic market when done right. Not only do they bring functional benefits to products, they also bring economic progress to producing countries. So, palm oil has the capacity to…
Palm oil is an invisible part of our lives as a functional ingredient in many of the food, personal care and household products that we use on a daily basis. There is palm oil in your cosmetic products, as well, because it mixes easily with other ingredients, makes your products…
