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the beauty, health, and identity. today, this is an industrial with a market size of hundreds of millions of dollars. it's no secret of the production process packaging and drama agents use chip case, the heavy bottom of the environment. the demand from consumers for sustainability is only increasing on you. going to have to be let's talk about a few ways in which this can be achieved. hello, welcome. i'm fun that i'm in india. many young and open consumers are consciously choosing to buy non toxic biodegradable and sustainable beauty and was thought kept products. even though these products remained inaccessible and unaffordable to the masses to be a few entrepreneurs are setting the foundation to build an industry that a scalable, yet sustainable, ah, money. she welcome. our son displayed an intolerance to supermarket soaps and

creams in early childhood in search of alternatives. she began to experiment herself. they started making simple fraud exec home, lately, thorpe's live bombs, shambles. and just, you know, using it on my own, you know, sell fuse and my son's use. that's how it started for me. i think the journey went a little, the i, c, d as in 2016. and the bug got me a book to see this and i wanted to studies can get on munitions again. governor dreamed in banking, she now began to grapple with the science of surfactants fats and oils. it marked the beginning of her company. oh, through them today it produces sustainable body care products such as soaps and shampoos, but honey sure, welcome on. doesn't call her products organic. we don't classify chemical and non chemical. we don't classify natural organic,

but we classify ingredients only based on their box to be live and that are the multi fires that can biodiesel easily into the soil, right? so they might be slightly expensive, but there are such ingredients available. so we choose to consciously target ingredients that are more sustainable. and my only thing of what exactly is in the products we use every day or in the cloth tree, where these are the kind of questions that also interest 25 year old or did the my of the indian american influenza uses social media to spotlight are through of a society and call for changes in consumer culture. i think there is this undercurrent of folks wanting to know the stories behind their products, who made them? how was it made and ingredients. and i think this coincides with living in the age of the climate crisis. so whether that's the question about the labor behind who major close or the ingredients that populate or beauty products. people want to

have a more critical dialogue about that mercury in face screens. heavy metals such as chromium and nickel in lipstick, ex expert see long term exposure to substances like these poses a health hazard. se sinner is a scientist who publishes facts that the cost medic industry keeps under wraps. all these chemicals are likely to impact and barbara big will impacted vironment. what will you use on your body? it'll impact you, but a lot of it get washed up. it going to the waste water system, a lot of the tubes that you discard that can warranty or waste stream. where does it fine if you go to the restroom, it went to landfills that starts to leach into the sub swine adding to surface water. ne hutch audrey is a makeup artist in delhi. she's is that for a long time now, her customers have valued the sustainable ingredients in the cosmetic products she

uses. as a result, she has also changed her tools earlier. there were only plastic youtube that used to get, but now we can bam was to execute tips across brands and across 30 dealers and everything. so that is not a thing. and for makeup remover instead of gardens because accordance is also very huge waste. i use an academic of razor flooding and divorced and he used any number of things. the cosmetics and personal care products industry is a $1000000000.00 business. last year alone, sales totaled around $425000000000.00 us dollars worldwide. in the us, the 4th largest market after the usa, china and japan. sustainable products are still a niche market. accounting for less than 7 percent of the total, but their market share is growing every year. oh, through them is one of the few players in the indian market that produces packages

and also organizers distribution here. the company is breaking new ground not only in terms of ingredients, but also in terms of product packaging. glass is not sustainable. it may look sustainable, but producing glasses not sustainable any more. so then we started looking out for alternators. today we use a wide range of materials like they should look in blaze based plastic on base plastic b, c, r, post consumer, reasonably plastic, which are more, you know, a part of it as biodegradable. so we try to ensure that at least 60 percent of the tubes composition is, is, is biodegradable. but rhythm sells its product to its online store. don't us sunscreens conditioners, the tops hello solid chapel. unlike its liquid counterpart, it doesn't require plastic bottle. plus it's supposed to last for many more uses than liquid shampoo. our statistics was if we are able to can miss even

5 percent of in the us population to move into forget 52 percent of indian population. the movement to using sample bars. imagine the impact that we will create in reducing those many sample bottles. going to lengthen by just replacing one product at around $252.00 piece or just over 3 euros. the solid chapel is not cheap and is probably only affordable for the open middle class. as long as this remains the case, sustainable cosmetics will have a hard time establishing themselves everywhere on the indian market. in recent years, the mineral, micah, which gives the shim unaffected makeup, has caused a fewer for how it's sourced. we visited a german cosmetics company trying to follow ethical standards when importing and using micah and also explore mica mines in northern india. coma davie and her 5 year old son, roger scoured the soil in search of mica. the glittering mineral plays

a vital role in this region. the economy, even though many minds have been officially closed. mining the raw material is the only way to survive. for many people here, children worked for hours in the blistering sun in the indian state of georgia, and this is nothing out of the ordinary thought that at that let tele glerison my children are so young, but there's no other way of making a living here. there's no farming and nothing serious that i can't afford to send them to school. i was, they have to help me had that though, but they managed to to 2 and a half kilos a day. and then that we work until 5 in the evening class was it to day some 50000 adults and children work here illegally. local authorities don't intervene almost all the workers or dollies who occupy the lowest rung in the indian cast system. a kilogram of micah can bring the equivalent of up to 20 euro cents. but often they

only receive half of that middleman clean the mineral enlarge filter, drops the platelets so then cut into varying sizes. this is how it enters the market. the word micah describes a group of naturally occurring silicon materials that are rigid, yet elastic. at the same time, mica is used for electronics and paints and lacquers, and for construction. it's also used a lot in the cosmetics industry. a few years ago, anna maria jaeger and her husband kai, founded their company lethal cosmetics. the acres emphasized that all the ingredients, the farm uses, are vegan and ethically sourced. in other words, they guarantee that no animal testing or child labor was involved in production.

one of the key raw materials they use is mike, up. and some of it comes from india, the acres hand pick their supplier in india. one who assured them that their micah only comes from mines that don't use child labor. but in that industry, it's often difficult to determine where the material originated. with our suppliers, it's one supplier, that's also the manufacturer that also works directly with the mines that also does the audits of the mines and has them independently audited as well. and that is where we gained that confidence with meanwhile, coma, davy is glad if she receives a $150.00 rupees a day, a little under 2 euros. that's enough to buy some vegetables and rice. but for that, everyone has to pitch in, including her 7 and 8 year old daughters or what?

oh, school finance. on one i'd really like to go to school. i was go that we need money that they will have. we don't even have our own house. so i have to collect mica. according to indian law, no child under the age of 14 is allowed to work. but millions of children are doing just that. in the states of john and v ha, around 22000 children are working in illegal mines. since kids are small, they're often made to crawl into freshly dug pits and shafts that aren't safe. oh let. i mean i'm always afraid when i'm looking for micah. oh, not long ago over there, 2 or 3 children of my age were buried among the shafts. and they died like jack, i want to go to school. i don't want this me. oh,

the cosmetics industry is very secretive. when it comes to micah in 2017, the responsible mike initiative was launched. it's an alliance of companies obtaining micah from india who aim to in child labor in mines, but no one from the initiative wanted to talk on camera. in germany, a supply chain act is set to come into force in 2023. it would require businesses to uphold basic human rights. but on an e, you level, an equivalent law is still being negotiated. i think it's absolutely within our responsibility. of course, it's also within the responsibility of being funny in the chain to make sure that it's produced ethically as well. mm hm. if you ask the miners and jock on how to solve the problem, they say genuine change can only come if mining is once again officially allowed. because then workers would be provided with clear safety standards and a fair wage. then their children wouldn't have to work any more.

one important ingredient, of course medic products is bob oil. it's at all material that's also found in many other products, for example, is often used in the food industry. however, the production of bomb oil is often problematic for the environment. we try to find out what are the ecological disadvantages of bomb while and how could it be produced more sustainably? oh, if you want to know why palm oil is in everything, you have to look back to the 900 ninety's. the food industry was in turmoil. as research revealed the horrors of trans fats. eating more of these trans fats meant more bad collateral and less good, which lead to increased risk of heart attack. most vegetable oils are made up of unsaturated fence, but these are relatively unstable and liquid, the making them rubbish. ingredients for food like marine to make these france more

versatile, they can be made more saturated. but this results in those harmful trans fats. your body has a tough time of breaking down into the magic fat palm oil. one of the real monsters of pomo is that it's highly saturated. what that means is that it's very stable, so it doesn't go runts. it's very easily. palm oil comes from the feet of this tree, which is imagined to be named b oil palm. both the fruit flesh and the kernel can produce oil and palm oil provides a healthy alternative to trans fat. it's relative be thick and solid, and so can be used in a wide range of foods with long shelf lives. without the homes caused by trans fats . and that can't really be replicated with every oil over 68 percent upon oil is used for food. 27 percent is used for cosmetics, detergents,

and other industrial products, and 5 percent for biofuel. this possibility has seen demand for palm oil increase almost sampling sold since 1990 of rich and e from west africa. 85 percent of the world's palm oil now originates in indonesia and malaysia. despite the plants incredible properties, there's a catch. it only grows in the tropics, the location of the world. tropical rain forests. ready her growing appetite, the palm oil has meant deforestation in a single decade. forest totaling the size of israel being lost, destroying rain prior to displaced indigenous peoples and labor pieces have been documented on palm oil plantation. deforestation destroys habitat tooth, threatening pungent from march and tigers. to be around the town,

one of human relatives. but the rain for problems don't end in the rain promised caitlin's economic b, which wetland, when that dried out to grow oil palm, they can catch by creating evolution and foaming surrounding region. deforestation is also a leading cause of climate change since the c o 2 absorbing powers of trees and soils are lost. could amount of the deforestation for palm as it could be called caitlin areas. and pete lens are very a very unique ecosystem and very important. it's a very carbon rich equal system. so given the impact of palm oil production, it's hardly surprising that many want to avoid it entirely. but not so fast, because the oil palm is an incredible over achiever. every square meter of pomona plantation typically produces this much oil from the same line diarrhea. you'd only

get this much rate seed oil, and this much so we've been so replacing palm oil would mean using more land we'll pounds. productivity is one reason it's often the cheapest vegetable oil that money can buy. the truth is oil palm is the most efficient oil crop we have, and palm oil demand will potentially double by 2050. 1 way of meeting tomorrow's 1st for palm. oil would be to improve productivity. research suggests that better agricultural practices can boost indonesia, palm oil production by 60 percent on existing land. meaning we could increase production without destroying additional rain forest yields could be boosted by tools. we already have from mechanization to better fertilizers, as well as know how like lang down palm front to slower apparation and protect

soils from heavy rain, new and improved oil. palm trees could also help created to selective breeding or genetic engineering. for example, the dwarf palm which stays shorter for longer, making it easier to harvest while more trees can be packed into less land. increased intensification could also have environmental drawbacks, but seems like a better option than chopping down more vein forest. but even with moves to halt deforestation, and increase productivity, future palm oil demand might increase beyond what today's land can provide. so which if you could make palm oil without the oil, palm tree that the switch can make little oil drop inside the cell. now the real advantage of this is that we can replace palmer exactly. we can produce an oil, which is exactly the same. now chris says this oil won't ever compete with palm oil on price, but hopes it could still play

a substantial role in the future. even if by the future is still years past decades away, there are plenty of ways to improve palm oil production, whether it's more capital monitoring, producing more oil on the plantations, we already have or producing extra oil using completely new techniques. but all of these approaches could end up increasing how much we pay for our products, given the cost to annette and people, surely the price would be worth it. another problem related to the production of cosmetics is the amount of packaging waste that is generated in indonesia. for example, like in india, such products are often offered in singling sashes so that it's affordable and accessible. but this ends up in landfills and makes the garbage problem was

a mom turnoff. he does his rounds. in this indonesian suburb, he's a trash collector, a lot of sashes land in his cart. the small plastic packages are ubiquitous in southeast asia. caller larry assigned more kitchen waste in housing estates, but in the villages, massages are thrown away. when i go, the single use packages are part and parcel of you mom can of his own lifestyle. he lives in a small house and tongue around cilla chung. together with his older sister and his niece, laundry, soap, shampoo, tooth paste, all supplied in single portion, plastic backs. even the spices for their food come and sash a's dead or if there's no sashay products, i don't know what to do. the sash is very cheap when i hear the amount is just

enough for one meal. alice, i said that if i could buy a big pack, i would buy laundry. so both, so dish soap, sugar and coffee. but unfortunately i only have a little money. and if i buy a big package, i'm afraid i can't buy other necessities. the important thing for me, the price of the sessions cheap, and i can cook every day to lad all me. and pay the rent as household help. she makes some 50 years a month. her brother earns between 60 and 120 euros. though their income does vary . even together, it doesn't stretch to a middle class income. that's why they prefer to buy single sash a's. it gives them flexibility, but over the long term it's an expensive way of managing their household. a large bottle of shampoo or laundry soap would be 20 percent cheaper than this same amount

in st chaise in, but nobody will matter. but says shays are the main range in local stores that, that, that, that can be, yeah, many people need these sessions, so we get lots of customers that you got what law may they more in demand because they're easier to use. lock up the v by customers spend $1000.00 or 2000 repairs hot up and then go get a low. it's very cheap for them. he boudoir, he will in the be. then there be a gun, pan. my guy there. so cheap that even down at the riverside sashes are used for doing the laundry. the way it always was. i balance. i am sometimes i only buy one sashay, sometimes to ally cuz sometimes i have a lot of laundry. sometimes i used to sasha a day. yeah, through the i mean it's a huge environmental problem. empty plastic sashes are all over and they're non

recyclable. environmental as teaser. my fear thinks it's monstrous that these packages are still being manufactured. she's fighting for a plastic re world. every single region in indonesia will have a traditional market and they used to sell daily items in bulk. they sell it in bulk. we would go there with our own container. we'd get a keela rice, maybe a few eggs bringing our own basket. none of them were packaged and that went on fine. the same goes for so we could buy so far as back then there was no problem at all. we didn't have to buy liquids though in fashion about 50 percent of global sasha production is based in se asia and the region is where most of them are sold a lucrative business. a lot of the brands that are whose names are on this actually

packages. our brand of multinational fast moving consumer goods, who companies are all around the world and they've originated in developed countries. they originated in europe in the united states, were very familiar with the brands. the irony is that in europe and in the united states and in the u. k, you won't see sasha. you'll see the brand sell their product in bottles that are recyclable, but not fashion. the only place where i have a market pressure is in the developing country, ironically in a place where they're so little capacity to recycle those fashion. you know, lever is one of the top brands here, especially when it comes to shampoo and laundry soap. the company declined in interview, but it did right to say that it's working on producing sashes, made of only one material and future, rather than several materials,

which makes them impossible to recycle. but the company won't comment on profits and inequality and sashay sales. nothing's likely to change in the short term for a mom and darcy a canopy. they have to decide on a day to day basis exactly what the family needs for. i am not an or that that how can i use such chaise because they're cheap. got me to the amount is just rightly but, and they're easy to use long, long at that. and once again, he takes off on his rounds. the company should produce the sashes. no, they can count on their indonesian customer base. ready in recent years, my choices, when it comes to beauty and personal care, have become more environmentally friendly. thanks largely to being a part eco india. i be such deeply about the products i buy and buy

a new product. only when i'm nearly done with an old one. if you've made a change to tell us about it on eco india and d, w dot chrome until next time from all of us in india and germany. good bye and thanks for watching. ah with ah ah with

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