BBC Documentaries

Unmasked: Make-Up's Big Secret (2019x190)

Uitzenddatum: Sep 02, 2019

What makes our lipstick glossy and our foundation smooth? A lot of the time it’s palm oil. It’s in 70% of beauty products - and some people say it should be banned. 28-year-old make-up artist Emmy Burbidge goes to Papua New Guinea to see where palm oil comes from, and to find out what our beauty products are doing to the planet. She discovers there is much more to the palm oil industry than meets the eye.