Shark Liver Oil in your soap?

By Charlie • February 8, 2008 • No comments yet

It will no doubt come as a shock to many of us that shark liver oil (or squalene) is used in cosmetic products (how many ways can we find to drive these amazing creatures to extinction?). The campaign group Oceana is fighting to stop its use, and announced last week that Unilever has agreed to remove squalene from ‘Pond’s’ and ‘Dove’. I wonder, though, how many of us knew they were using it in the first place?

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Charlie

Charlie works for an airline and has birded all over the world for twenty years. He wants to be a writer, and thinks no-one would believe his life could be so charmed if he didn't take photos of as many of the birds he sees as possible. Blogging with 10,000 Birds fits his aims, needs, and insecurities perfectly. Really - do birders get much more fortunate than this?