Luxury perfumes linked to child labour, BBC finds | BBC News 

UNHCR is for refugees, this is not about refugees.

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@9:50 The 2 masters which had Egyptian Jasmine were L'Oreal and Estee Lauder. And it doesn't mean the other masters were not doing the same or similar, it is just that this investigation was focused on Egyptian Jasmine production which is around 50 percent of the production for perfumes.

Parents are guilty. It is no one from any company waking up those children to do that inclement job!

I'm not sure the BBC should get on their high horse when it comes to child protection...

yes, but these perfume ingredients tend to have just a few traditional regions that grow the stuff in massive quantities - like for perfume roses bulgaria, or the comparable black market products opium from afghanistan and the golden triangle around myanmar, cocaine from colombia and peru, and hashish from afghanistan, morocco, lebanon, and a bit from himalayan india and nepal. how bad labour conditions for a given scent of untraceable origin varies based on which countries the stuff is likely to originate from (for example bulgaria is sure to be bad by EU standards, but above average in global comparisons). evidently, fitting the general picture of general sisi's egypt being just about as callous, worthless and unredeemable a state as they come (my personal least favourite dictatorship, even before it obeyed its current orders to starve all g°z°ns), the nile delta is one region of origin where child labour and wage theft are particularly bad. it is quite unusual nowadays to see it practiced this openly in front of TV cameras. if you roll up with a film crew even on an artisanal mine in the congo or central african republic, they usually shoo the kids away before you get there, because the mine owners and the overseers know that them being seen would likely cause some amount of trouble that's worth avoiding. and in terms of direct negative impact, these very young kids harvesting through the night and going to school tired is likely to impact the kids' future economic prospects quite severely, and (on top of potential exposure to really bad pesticides, because egypt is certainly not a well-regulated market) frequent heavy exposure to allergy-inducing essential oils poses a very plausible threat of permanent damage, including sensitization to other allergens. perfume plants seem harmless from the viewpoint of the final product consumer, but at heavier exposure levels, essential oils are among the most commonly harmful substances produced by plants, with many or most of them in fact being produced primarily to deter animal ingestion. therefore several perfume plants are probably among the most harmful to harvest by hand unprotected. tobacco is probably still worse - like with nicotine patches, nicotine is absorbed through skin from tobacco sap, and harvesters may consume very high doses this way and develop very high tolerance. brewed or leeched tobacco tea is actually one of the most powerful and most dangerous to use all natural insecticides, and unlike most, it tends to kill insects very rapidly on contact. nicotine is a really potent poison, and people get a wrong impression of the potency of tobacco because most of it is broken up into inactive compounds when tobacco is smoked, and only a small percentage of the nicotine reaches the lungs. if one was to eat cigarettes, the lethal number would probably be in the low single digits for non-smokers.

In this case, should we relax?

@@thedancinghunter0 The answer in No! But BBC should have address child labor and abuse happens in most companies that invest in cheap labor around the world.

Me too.

could the world be a better place? People are becoming less and less empathetic day by day. I hate this world

no, because children are more useful for some products than for others. and most countries do not allow child labour quite so openly - this is another instance of sisi's egypt being terrible.

Haven't even watched the video and thought the exact same thing.good looking out!🤘💯

I am, to be frank quite surprised….

We need to be shocked by this. We need to be angry. We need to act to prevent evils like this. Complacency only contributes to the problem.

Yeah, they need to come out with some better fragrances

And yet I can’t think of an alternative

nothing new

In Congo, Egypt is also in Africa.

It’s so sickening.

As easy as it is to say workers should ‘demand a livable wage’, they will be homeless and their children will starve. It’s hard to muster up a revolution when you can’t afford basic needs. If they stand up and lose their jobs, they will find others. People are replaceable. It is the people who buy these fragrances that need to stand up and refuse to buy these products if they continue to not provide fair wages. I can go without perfume. Children should not go without food.

I cried watching the documentary

dont be deceived... the UN already knows

And yet I can’t think of an alternative

I visited our place ten times and I can confirm you have three braincells...

I think less than one..

I see, as always it's the fault of the victim...

They see children as extra hands for labour

We don’t know if she was forced into marriage or has no access to birth control. This is not the UK or America.

@@petrichor259there’s no social services to help families.

To HELL with Este Lauder and all the other companies involved in this despicable scandal. And to HELL with the celebrities who promote this crap.

Lack of access to birth control. Being forced into marriage.

Yeah..😂 because they are the only two options 😂 a lot has happened to the world since the cold war you know..

Can you list them? (Socialism in any form doesn’t count. That’s communism lite.)

For goodness sake!! 🤦🙄😱 Stupidity never goes out of fashion does it 🙄 the BBC is funded by license and has NO advertising! NONE!! Really?? You really don't know anything at all, not even the most famous point of the organisation you just slagged off? Why not take a deep breath and think before your next post and ask yourself...do I actually have the faintest idea what I'm about to say??

I’m a woman and I refuse to use perfume.

Мужчины уже бойкотируют?

Oh boo hoo, shut up you pick-me 😅

Guess that's why am not shocked you dared to put this up

Cleaning up after yourself in your own home is not the same. You would have to do those things anyway if you lived alone and no one will pay you.

What, you get paid for doing chores..

​@@bluefireRyucalm down Karen, it's a joke 🙄

the kind of disparity which hasn’t existed in Britain since the Victorian times

Guiltiness for a bottling day of a champagne cuvée compared to Paris cops cutting crack for homeless

King Charles king good for princess Kate health