A market size of hundreds of millions of dollars. Its no secret in the production process. Packaging, enrollment agents use chip case the heavy bottom of the environment. The demand from consumers for sustainability is only increasing. Amico, india. To me, lets talk about a few ways in which this can be achieved. Hello, welcome. Im thunder. 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 remain in accessible and unaffordable to the masses to be a few entrepreneurs are setting the foundation to build an industry that is 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 products at home, lately, thorpes live bombs, shambles. And just, you know, using it on my own, you know, sell fuse and my sons use. Thats 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 big blue. See this and i wanted to studies can give formulations again governor dreamed in banking, she now began to grapple with the science of surfactants fats and oil. It marked the beginning of her company. Oh, through them to day it produces sustainable body Care Products such as soaps and shampoos, but honey sure, welcome on. Doesnt call her products organic. We dont classify chemical and non chemical. We dont 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 own to think 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 called 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 thats the question about the labor behind who major closed 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, if 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 . Itll 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 burn warranty or where stream. Where does it fine if you go to the restroom, it went to the landfills that starts to leech into the sub swine adding to surface water. Ne hutch audrey is a Makeup Artist in delhi. Shes 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. They were only plastic, you did that used to get, but now we get bam. Was to execute tips across brands and across 30 dealers and everything thats not the thing. And for makeup remover instead of gardens because accordance is also very huge waste. I use an academic appraiser 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 70 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 to day. We use a wide range of materials like say, should look in blaze based plastic on based 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 pubes composition is, is, is biodegradable. But rhythm sells its product to its online store. Donors, sunscreens conditioners, the top cello solid chapel. Unlike its liquid counterpart, it doesnt require plastic bottle. Plus its supposed to last for many more users than liquid shampoo. Ah, statistics was if we are able to can miss even 5 percent of in the Us Population to move into forget 5 percent of indian population. The move in 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 funeral for how its sourced. We visited a German Cosmetics Company trying to follow ethical standards when importing and using micah and also explore micah mines in northern india. Coma davie and her 5 year old son, roger scoured the soil in search of micah. 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 work for hours in the blistering sun in the indian state of georgia. And this is nothing out of the ordinary toward that bella tele, clara, my children are so young, but theres no other way of making a living here. Theres no farming and nothing to do with that. I cant 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 at the to day some 50000 adults and children work here illegally. Local authorities dont intervene. Almost all the workers are dilates. Who occupy the lowest wrong 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 cleaned the mineral enlarge filtered rumps, the platelets have been 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, micah is used for electronics and paints and lacquers and for construction. Its also used a lot in the cosmetics industry. A few years ago, Anna Maria Jaeger and her husband chi, founded their company lethal cosmetics. The yankers 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 handpicked their supplier in india. One who assured them that their micah only comes from minds that dont use child labor. But in that industry, its often difficult to determine where the material originated with our suppliers. Its one supplier that often 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 gain that confidence with meanwhile, coma, davy is glad if she receives a 150. 00 rupees a day, a little under 2 euros. Thats enough to buy some vegetables and rice. But for that everyone has to pitch in including her 7 and 8 year old daughters work. Oh, its called finance online. Id really like to go to school. Oh, its gone that we need money that they will have. We dont even have our own house. So i have to collect mica. Milton. 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 b ha, around 22000 children are working in illegal mines. Since kids are small, theyre often made to crawl into freshly dug pits and shafts that arent safe or less. I mean, im always afraid when im looking for mica. Oh, not long ago over there. 2 or 3 children of my age were buried in one of the shafts, and they died like jack, i want to go to school. I dont want this h, as in the cosmetics industry, is very secretive. When it comes to micah in 2017, the responsible mike initiative was launched. Its an alliance of companies obtaining micah from india who aimed 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 is absolutely within our responsibility. Of course, its also within the responsibility of everybody in the chain to make sure that its 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 wouldnt have to work any more. One important ingredient, of course medic products is farm oil. Its all material thats also found in many other products. For example, its often used in the Food Industry. However, the production of family is often problematic for the environment. We tried to find out what are the ecological disadvantages of families, and how could it be produced most sustainably . Oh, if you want to know why palm oil is in every thing, you have to look back to the 19 ninetys. 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 fat, 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 front, pome oil. One of the real monsters of pomo is that its highly saturated. What that means is that its very stable, so it doesnt go runts. Its very easily. Palm oil comes from the feet of this tree, which is imagined to be named be oil palm. Both the fruit flesh and the kernel can produce oil and palm oil provides a healthy alternative to trans fat. Its 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 cant really be replicated with any ever 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 saturdays sold since 1990 of rich and e from west africa. 85 percent of the worlds palm oil now originates in indonesia and malaysia. Despite the plants incredible properties, theres a catch. It only grows in the tropics, the location of the world. Tropical rain forests. Ready are growing appetite, the palm oil has meant deforestation in a single decade. Forest totaling the size of israel being lost, destroying rain price to displace Indigenous Peoples and labor abuses have been documented on Palm Oil Plantation deforestation destroys habitat tooth threatening pungent species from march. And tigers. To be around the turn, one of human relatives. But the rain for problems dont end in the rain progress, caitlins ecological, which wetland. When that dried out to grow oil, tom 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 last good amount of the deforestation for palm, i said could be called caitlin areas. And pete lens are very a very unique ecosystem and very important. Its a very common rich ecosystem. So given the impact of Palm Oil Production, its 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 taste much oil from the same line diarrhea. Youd only get this much rate seed oil, and this much so weve been so replacing palm oil would mean using more land oil palms. Productivity is one reason is 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 tomorrows 1st palm oil would be to improve productivity. Research suggests that better agricultural practices can boost indonesia as Palm Oil Production by 60 percent on existing land. Meaning we could increase production without destroying additional rein promised. 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 back ration 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 todays land can provide. So which if you can make palm oil without the oil, palm tree, which can make little oil dropped 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 wont ever compete with palm oil on price, but hopes it could still play a substantial role in the future. Even if the future is still years, perhaps decades away, there are plenty of ways to improve Palm Oil Production, whether its 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 app and it and people, surely the price would be worth it. Another problem related to the production of course metrics 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 its affordable and accessible. But this ends up in landfills and makes the garbage problem was the mom turn off . He does his rounds. In this indonesian suburb, hes a trash collector. A lot of says shes land in his cart. The small plastic packages are you bit with us in se asia, with the color that i find more kitchen waste in housing estate. But in the villages more, sasha is thrown away. Wiggle the single use packages are part and parcel of you mom can of his own lifestyle. He lives in a small house in 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 sanchez dead or if theres no sashay products, i dont know what to do. The sash is very cheap. When i hear the amount is just enough for one meal. Carlos, 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, oh, im afraid i cant buy other necessities. The important thing for me, the price of the sessions cheap, and i can cook every day who laugh all day and pay the rent as household help. She make some 50 euros a month. Her brother earns between 60. 12 euros, though their income does very even together, it doesnt stretch to a middle class income. Thats why they prefer to buy single sashes. It gives them flexibility, but over the long term its an expensive way of managing their household. A large bottle of shampoo or laundry soap would be 20 percent cheaper than the same amount in st chaise in back to what he wouldnt matter, but says shays are the main range and local stores. Not that that, that can. Yeah. Many people need these sessions, so we got lots of customers. You got what law may they more in demand because theyre easier to use. Profit that we buy customers spend 1000. 00 or 2000 repairs on our but then got it. Hello. Its very cheap for them. Who do audi will in the be then there be a gamble. My guy there. So cheap that even down at the riverside says shes are used for doing the laundry the way it always was appalling. I sometimes i only buy one sashay, sometimes to ally can sometimes i have a lot of laundry. Sometimes i used to such as a day, atherton, its a huge environmental problem. Empty plastic sashes are all over and theyre non recyclable. Environmental as teaser. My fear thinks its monstrous that these packages are still being manufactured. Shes fighting for a plastic free 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. Wed get a keela rice, maybe a few eggs bringing our own baskets. 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 didnt have to buy liquid. So in