A very small number of our products use shellac, which is a secretion of the lac insect Coccus lacca, found in the forests of Assam and Thailand, and lanolin, an oil extracted from sheep’s wool. Neither of these processes harms the animals in any way.
We are now moving away from using any animal-derived products, apart from our Community Trade honey and beeswax, and we have not created any new products using lanolin or shellac for some years.