The Brazilian farm workers exploited to harvest an everyday ingredient

Brazilian workers face degrading conditions to harvest palm wax used in sweets, pills and lipstick.

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Carnauba wax
- It is added to sweets to stop them melting, to pills to make them easier to swallow and as a thickener in lipstick and mascara.
  
  The wax is harvested from carnauba palm trees.
  
  Which is a good thing, just the way it's harvested is the bad thing. Otherwise they will just figure out how to make it from plastic. Surprised that isn't already a thing.