Melrose Organic Castile Soap
Melrose has a proud history of 30 years working to supply healthy, organic and sustainable products.
The use of Palm Oil has come under significant criticism regarding habitat destruction and threat to biodiversity. The fate of the Orang-utan is a main feature of this concern.
As a result we are getting enquiries from concerned customers asking about Melrose Castile Soap with Palm Oil
We are pleased to confirm that Melrose only sources its Organic Palm Oil from Daabon in Colombia, South America. No Orang-utans live in South America and the palm oil is grown in a chemical free, organically certified and sustainable system.
Daabon has been a foundation member of the international "Roundtable of Sustainable Palm Oil" (RSPO). The goal of RSPO members is to jointly develop legal, technical, ecological and social criteria to promote the sustainable manufacture and use of palm oil.
One particular aspect is to ensure that the farming of palm oil plantations is compatible with the protection of the rain forests and their biodiversity. The RSPO working groups have devised criteria to rate the quality of sustainability in the production of palm oil products.
These criteria include products only being permitted from areas placed under cultivation prior to 2005 (old-stock plantations) or, if placed under cultivation subsequent to 2005, the previous land use must have been taken into consideration and an examination as well as an exclusion of existing, natural areas in particular need of protection must have been performed. These criteria are being applied on a trial basis and will become increasingly binding in the manufacture of palm oil product.
Melrose supports and promotes the aims of the RSPO which to a large extent are aligned with the philosophy of Melrose.
Melrose customers can be satisfied the organic products they use do not contribute to this problem