Comments on: Greenwash Of The Week: Avon’s Palm Oil And A Rainforest Charity. http://thegoodhuman.com/2010/08/04/greenwash-of-the-week-avons-palm-oil-and-a-rainforest-charity/ Sustainability, Environment, Progressive Politics, Peak Oil, Going Green. Thu, 24 May 2012 10:37:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Danika @ Your Organic Life http://thegoodhuman.com/2010/08/04/greenwash-of-the-week-avons-palm-oil-and-a-rainforest-charity/#comment-6474 Danika @ Your Organic Life Tue, 06 Dec 2011 16:57:16 +0000 http://www.thegoodhuman.com/?p=2905#comment-6474 I was looking at their ingredients today to write a response to this greenwashing by Avon published on Just Means http://www.justmeans.com/index.php?action=showarticledetails&articleid=7826&type=company&utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=twitterfeed I don't see any palm-derived ingredients in the lipstick mentioned, so it looks like they've taken it out (by law they must list all ingredients except fragrance). I haven't gone through all their products yet to confirm if they've taken it out of every product, but it looks like they responded to the critism. However, they still have many petroleum-based ingredients and were slapped down for claiming to be fair trade when only 2-5% of the ingredients were certified. Also, they are one of the worst Pinkwashers in the industry. Despite their walk for cancer and other claims to be advocates for breast cancer, they refuse to take known carcinogens and hormone disruptors out of their products. I was looking at their ingredients today to write a response to this greenwashing by Avon published on Just Means
http://www.justmeans.com/index.php?action=showarticledetails&articleid=7826&type=company&utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=twitterfeed

I don’t see any palm-derived ingredients in the lipstick mentioned, so it looks like they’ve taken it out (by law they must list all ingredients except fragrance). I haven’t gone through all their products yet to confirm if they’ve taken it out of every product, but it looks like they responded to the critism.

However, they still have many petroleum-based ingredients and were slapped down for claiming to be fair trade when only 2-5% of the ingredients were certified. Also, they are one of the worst Pinkwashers in the industry. Despite their walk for cancer and other claims to be advocates for breast cancer, they refuse to take known carcinogens and hormone disruptors out of their products.

]]> By: Chrissy http://thegoodhuman.com/2010/08/04/greenwash-of-the-week-avons-palm-oil-and-a-rainforest-charity/#comment-6473 Chrissy Sun, 24 Oct 2010 23:14:00 +0000 http://www.thegoodhuman.com/?p=2905#comment-6473 hi, i was wondering if anyone knows from where AVON gets the palm oil...who is the supplier? i am currently working on a project called Branding Sustainability and i'm researching Mark.AVON products, basically trying to trace from where they get the ELAEIS GUINEENSIS (PALM) OIL an ingredient which is listed in mark Dew Drenched Moisturlicious Lip Color. i find it very hard to trace AVON'S palm oil supplier so if someone could help, it would be great! thanks Chrissy :) hi,

i was wondering if anyone knows from where AVON gets the palm oil…who is the supplier?

i am currently working on a project called Branding Sustainability and i’m researching Mark.AVON products, basically trying to trace from where they get the ELAEIS GUINEENSIS (PALM) OIL an ingredient which is listed in mark Dew Drenched Moisturlicious Lip Color.

i find it very hard to trace AVON’S palm oil supplier so if someone could help, it would be great!

thanks
Chrissy :)

]]> By: Holly http://thegoodhuman.com/2010/08/04/greenwash-of-the-week-avons-palm-oil-and-a-rainforest-charity/#comment-6472 Holly Tue, 10 Aug 2010 22:14:40 +0000 http://www.thegoodhuman.com/?p=2905#comment-6472 Thanks for this post! I went over to The Unsuitablog, and found THIS part especially terrifying, which is written at the end of the post: “*at the time of writing this was 153 [number of Avon products containing palm oil, which has DECREASED since communication with the Avon/greenwash people], suggesting that someone has been carefully re-editing ingredients pages.” Clearly they”™re not re-working ingredients (that would take a LONG time to do for that many products), but rather doctoring ingredient LISTS. So what else are they putting in products that we don”™t know about? Thanks for this post!

I went over to The Unsuitablog, and found THIS part especially terrifying, which is written at the end of the post: “*at the time of writing this was 153 [number of Avon products containing palm oil, which has DECREASED since communication with the Avon/greenwash people], suggesting that someone has been carefully re-editing ingredients pages.”

Clearly they”™re not re-working ingredients (that would take a LONG time to do for that many products), but rather doctoring ingredient LISTS. So what else are they putting in products that we don”™t know about?

]]> By: Bebe73 http://thegoodhuman.com/2010/08/04/greenwash-of-the-week-avons-palm-oil-and-a-rainforest-charity/#comment-6471 Bebe73 Thu, 05 Aug 2010 03:55:29 +0000 http://www.thegoodhuman.com/?p=2905#comment-6471 Hi: You have a wonderful website! :) This article is great. I especially love your friend Keith's response to them. Very clever! One little thing though... I notice you're using Ads by Google, and I don;t know anything about this stuff, whether or not ads are automatically generated or not, but they're inviting people to buy Avon's products?!... It's a bit contradictory to see them on this page... Just a friendly suggestion. :) Keep up the good work! :)) Love your site! Hi:
You have a wonderful website! :)
This article is great. I especially love your friend Keith’s response to them. Very clever!

One little thing though… I notice you’re using Ads by Google, and I don;t know anything about this stuff, whether or not ads are automatically generated or not, but they’re inviting people to buy Avon’s products?!… It’s a bit contradictory to see them on this page… Just a friendly suggestion. :)

Keep up the good work! :) ) Love your site!

]]> By: Laura aka Simply Green http://thegoodhuman.com/2010/08/04/greenwash-of-the-week-avons-palm-oil-and-a-rainforest-charity/#comment-6470 Laura aka Simply Green Wed, 04 Aug 2010 15:58:17 +0000 http://www.thegoodhuman.com/?p=2905#comment-6470 Wow, they deny any affiliation when there is blatant connections across the internet about it. Thank you for this information :) Wow, they deny any affiliation when there is blatant connections across the internet about it. Thank you for this information :)

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