In soap making, palm oil is king. It makes a great, hard white bar with lots of lather. Perfect bar! And not only do soap makers like palm oil but also the cookie and cracker manufacturers of the world. Palm oil is in everything! So happy were the governments and landowners of Indonesia and Malaysia! So let's mow down all of these rainforests that are in the way so we can plant more palm trees. Ooops, there goes another orangutan! Interestingly enough, plain old canola oil does a pretty good job in soap making -- not quite as white or hard or sudsy as palm, but pretty close. And in baked goods, it's much more healthy since it is lower in saturated fats. And not a single square foot of rainforest is affected by producing canola oil. Orangutans get to stay put. Seems like a fair trade.
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