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... or maybe tallow was the flunky ingredient?
There does seem to be something iffy about the use of tallow in the UK. I say UK but we've seen it happen across Europe, too. I'm citing the culmination of snippets I've built up from forums and from googling on the matter but I believe that sourcing of tallow for use in beauty products has become problematic due to potential disease within the donor animal. Consistent supply may not be possible. Love for anyone with concrete information to chime in.
One interesting fact: use of palm oil in beauty products, especially soap is probably as old its mass-production. Current owner of PZ Cussons, for example, which is the PZ part (or Paterson Zochonis) was a company formed back in 1884 with the specific purpose of exporting palm oil out of the Sierra Leone Colony & Protectorate and later from Ghana & Kenya ... for use predominantly in the soap-making business.
Interestingly, just a short number of years ago PZ Cussons closed down their famous British plant and moved production to Malaysia. Cue @donnie_arko's snippet above about Arko moving production out to Malaysia. Seems they're making soap cheaper than anyone else could possibly.
Back to supply ... if everybody else is doing one thing, it's very difficult to do something else at the same scale.
There does seem to be something iffy about the use of tallow in the UK. I say UK but we've seen it happen across Europe, too. I'm citing the culmination of snippets I've built up from forums and from googling on the matter but I believe that sourcing of tallow for use in beauty products has become problematic due to potential disease within the donor animal. Consistent supply may not be possible. Love for anyone with concrete information to chime in.
One interesting fact: use of palm oil in beauty products, especially soap is probably as old its mass-production. Current owner of PZ Cussons, for example, which is the PZ part (or Paterson Zochonis) was a company formed back in 1884 with the specific purpose of exporting palm oil out of the Sierra Leone Colony & Protectorate and later from Ghana & Kenya ... for use predominantly in the soap-making business.
Interestingly, just a short number of years ago PZ Cussons closed down their famous British plant and moved production to Malaysia. Cue @donnie_arko's snippet above about Arko moving production out to Malaysia. Seems they're making soap cheaper than anyone else could possibly.
Back to supply ... if everybody else is doing one thing, it's very difficult to do something else at the same scale.