What ingredients to avoid in Australian soaps?
Check the ingredients on the back and if the soap contains palm oil, please avoid. Often it is listed as Sodium Palmate, Sodium Palm Kernelate, Palm Acid, Vegetable Oil, and Glycerin.
There is no need to use palm oil to make soaps other than it is a low cost ingredient for the producer. Brands such as Australian Botanical Soaps are based on palm oil, which is a highly devastating ingredient grow in remote, precious rainforest areas of Asia and Africa. There is no such thing as sustainable palm oil because there is not a reliable certification scheme for what is sustainable.
Choose instead palm oil free brands such as the Australian Natural Soap Company.
Another ingredients to avoid in soap is Fragrance (will always be synthetic and not good for you).