Cosmetic companies: the child labour issue impacting on child trafficking

Writes Asclepius, Content writer, Headline Diplomat eMagazine, LUDCI.eu
Increasing demand for natural beauty products across the world could be a catalyst of modern slavery, especially child labour. Consumers want more flavours in their makeup kits. Ingredients such as cocoa, vanilla, and mineral mica are sourced using child labour. Hence cosmetics companies that are increasing the number of natural ingredients in their products are indirectly fuelling child labour. In an interview with Donna Westerman head of consumer goods at Maplecroft, told Reuters that “the cosmetic supply chain is extre...