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Botanical Industry Learns to Replenish Resources Used in Products.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, October, 2003
By Dawn Fallik, The Philadelphia Inquirer Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Oct. 27--Times are good for the botanical industry, what with all the sandalwood soap, cherry-bark conditioner, and ginseng gum on store aisles these days.
But all that essential oil and tree bark has got to come from some place, and those places are disappearing as the demand grows.
So in an herbal love triangle, industry, government and academia have come together to teach those at the bottom of the herbal chain -- the pickers and growers -- how to keep their products alive.
Aveda, an Estee Lauder business unit whose hair and cosmetic products are created from flower and plant ingredients, has hired American Indian communities to plant sage and...
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