I’m talking about Dove the beauty product brand from Unilever. Never thought that beauty could come at such a terrible price.  I have decided to stop using Dove soaps and shampoos. In fact I will ban all Unilever products from my household.  What you think ’bout that corporate giant?  And I will tell everybody I can get hold of to do the same thing.  

I came upon the Greenpeace Southeast Asia website when I was researching some stuff for my son who wants to be a conservationist. They pointed out that Unilever is the largest consumer of palm oil in the world. It gets its supply from Indonesia, where they destroy millions of hectares of tropical rainforests  to make way for plantations. The news hit me hard.  My pediatrician recommended the soap when my baby  was a week old.  I better tell him about this.  I am a loyal Dove consumer. “Trusted brand ko na ito.” All this time I never knew that I was financing the demise of  large tracts of wildlife habitats and contributing to global warming!  Shame on me! Shame on you Unilever!  

http://www.greenpeace.org/international/campaigns/forests/asia-pacific/dove-palmoil-action

What now?   What to do?  What to do?  Make a personal letter to the following people below: patrick.cescau@unilever.com, Kees.Vandergraaf@unilever.com, ralph.kugler@unilever.com, lettemieke.mulder@unilever.com, jan-kees.vis@unilever.com, doveaction@greenpeace.org

Letter-writing doesn’t sound like a very impressive action on our part, right? Well, it’s better than nothing.