AN ETHICAL beauty brand is inviting residents to take part in a protest to help indigenous people keep their homes.
Lush Cosmetics in Bromley High Street has created a giant cardboard tree in its shop window where customers can pop their faces through holes in the leaves and have their photos taken next to the faces of members of Orang Rimba.
Orang Rimba is an Indonesian tribe whose way of life and survival is under threat by increasing palm oil plantations.
The window forms part of an interactive petition which will be presented to pulp, paper and palm oil company, Sinar Mas, to ask them to stop destroying forests in Indonesia.
Store manager, Gemma Connolly, said: “Personally I think it is disgusting.”
Palm oil is a main ingredient in many soaps, cosmetics and foods and the global demand for the oil is causing forests to be cleared for new plantations.
For more information visit lush.co.uk/palmoil
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