Consumer Society by Olivia James de Oliveira Oliveira

BRONZI DROPS

leticianazareth — 2025-05-28 11:21:45 UTC

This bronzer has in its composition many things, so we chose 3 of them.

Cocoa Extract

melaguiar — 2025-05-29 17:36:40 UTC

Cocoa is a fruit used mainly in chocolate but at Bronzi Drops supports skin radiance.

melaguiar — 2025-05-29 17:42:36 UTC

Much of today’s cocoa is grown in monoculture systems. This agricultural practice consists in big crops with only one type of product aiming financial gain. In monoculture, the use of pestices is very common which harms the soil, and majorly the water, consequently, harming the health of the people who live near this crops. Furthermore, to create huge crops it's nescessary to rely on deforestation and destruction of mainly tropical forests in Latin America and West Africa.

melaguiar — 2025-05-29 17:46:50 UTC

"The cocoa industry is a major driver of deforestation, loss of critical wildlife habitat, and human rights abuses around the world — particularly in West Africa — but also in Latin America and Southeast Asia." International Wildlife Conservation

Extrato de Camélia

leticianazareth — 2025-05-29 17:55:09 UTC

O extrato dessa flor é usado como antioxidante e anti-inflamatório.

Distribution

oliviaoliveira5 — 2025-05-29 17:59:23 UTC

The product is produced in United States, where the brand was "born". The brand reassures that their choice to produce on their own maintain the quality and take less time. SO HOW DO THEY DISTRIBUTE ALL OVER THE WORLD?

Óleo de Marula

leticianazareth — 2025-05-29 18:00:56 UTC

A marula é uma fruta principalmente usada para licor mas no produto é usado para hidratação suave da pele.

melaguiar — 2025-05-29 18:07:33 UTC

Cocoa production often uses child labour and child exploitation with low to zero salaries which makes them miss out in education. Furthermore, many of these children are a fruit of child traficking and work analogue to slavery.

melaguiar — 2025-05-29 18:10:40 UTC

"Nestlé admits slavery in Thailand while fighting child labour lawsuit in Ivory Coast" The Guardian

"The Gaurdian" Article about Nestlé's semi-slavery

melaguiar — 2025-05-29 18:15:28 UTC

oliviaoliveira5 — 2025-05-29 18:17:38 UTC

Drunk Elephant rely on partners on the aerport to help and sell to the travelling people while they send to other places. They also rely on Sephora who is one of their biggest partners.

Video from : " Africa do Jeito que Nunca viu" talking about child labour in cocoa production

melaguiar — 2025-05-29 18:19:13 UTC

STEP 3

oliviaoliveira5 — 2025-05-29 18:26:08 UTC

melaguiar — 2025-05-29 18:26:09 UTC

Marula trees grow naturally in the wild and do not typically require deforestation or intensive agriculture. Fruit is often collected by hand, reducing the need for machinery and fuel consumption. Marula trees thrive in arid and semi-arid regions with minimal water or fertilizer needs.

melaguiar — 2025-05-29 18:26:33 UTC

However, high demand for marula oil can lead to overharvesting, especially in areas where wild trees are the main source.
This may affect biodiversity and reduce food availability for wildlife.

Matrixyl 3000

leticianazareth — 2025-06-04 10:48:20 UTC

É um composto químico feito em laboratório que é usado em vários cosméticos pois ajuda a deixar a pele mais bonita.

STEP 1

leticianazareth — 2025-06-04 10:54:27 UTC

STEP 2

leticianazareth — 2025-06-04 11:05:06 UTC

Production

leticianazareth — 2025-06-04 11:06:03 UTC

All products of Drunk Elephant are made at USA because the brand states that in other places products might lose their qualities.

melaguiar — 2025-06-04 11:17:14 UTC

Camelia extraction has various environmental impacts. The amount of oil that can be extracted is very low, making it resource intensive. Furthermore, large scale farming and solvent use can harm the environment significantly.

Production

leticianazareth — 2025-06-04 11:18:10 UTC

The brand don't have public information about places where they produce in the USA, but their headquarter is in Texas, where they were founded. They have offices in New York and Los Angeles too and the packeging of products is made in Matamoros, Mexico.

melaguiar — 2025-06-10 14:57:56 UTC

Drunk Elephant like any other brand, use techniques to make people consume their products. Trending in the 2020's, marketing and mainly influencers helped the brand to reach high proportions. This relates directly to perceived obsolence because many people who already owned skin care products started buying Drunk Elephant only because it was trendy. Also the high price and little bit of product inside can be considered planned obsolescence.

Polution

leticianazareth — 2025-06-10 22:14:35 UTC

The Linear Consumer System polutes a lot through all its fases, but in the production it has a siguinificant participation. While doing all finish products or basic elements that soon will become something the factorys produce lots of CO2 when burning or transforming things.

oliviaoliveira5 — 2025-06-10 22:15:43 UTC

Adversiments tend to manipulate people into buying stuff

STEP 5

leticianazareth — 2025-06-10 22:23:39 UTC

Step 4

oliviaoliveira5 — 2025-06-10 22:29:20 UTC

Where does it goes?

leticianazareth — 2025-06-10 22:47:55 UTC

Have you ever wondered where your trash goes after you throw it away? It isin't gone in a magic step, actually goes way beyond it. Bronzi drops do not have a refil product that you can keep the packaging, reciclying like other Drunk Elephant products, so when it's over you don't think twice before trowing it away. This causes demage of the ambient cause we don't have infinite raw materials so one day we will have used all of it. Also burning trash after it is thrown away relives CO2, polluting very much.

oliviaoliveira5 — 2025-06-10 22:54:45 UTC

sources

leticianazareth — 2025-06-10 22:58:34 UTC