We got a reply from Colgate-Palmolive today, and, we quote "Dynamo does not contain any palm oil in its ingredients". So while there is probably cleaning products out there that a better for the environment, palm oil is not one of Dynamo's crimes.
As we went though this process we realised that even so called 'green' companies use palm oil. Ecostore, for example, freely admit as much on their website (http://www.ecostore.co.nz/about/palmoil.html). It seems odd that a 'green' specialist company uses palm oil when a mainstream manufacturer does not, but it is because ecostore are not only 'green' but 'natural'. Dynamo is almost certainly petrochemical based, and ecostore is plant based. The debate about petrochemicals is for a different day, but beware because 'natural' and 'green' are not aways compatible.
We would be remiss not to mention that ecostore are members of the roundtable on sustainable palm oil (www.rspo.org) but ecostore admit that this does not mean that all the palm oil they use is sustainable.
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