DEMAND FOR OILS AND FATS WITHIN PERSONAL CARE SECTOR DIVERGES WIDELY BETWEEN COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS
November 1st, 2007
BY MARK ROWE, in London, JULIAN RYALL, in Tokyo, and RACHEL JONES, in Caracas
PERSONAL care products - soaps, cosmetics, lotions and hair products - have always been important consumers of vegetable and animal-based oils and fats. Yet, this is a complex sub-sector of the global oils and fats industry. Unlike biofuels, demand is highly sensitive to consumer needs, and these vary widely from country to country, culture to culture and region to region. Furthermore, these are times of flux and innovation within the personal care sector, and so oils and fats ...
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