Mangoes For Skin Product Eyed

CEBU CITY, Cebu, Philippines – Gandang Kalikasan Inc. (GKI), a social enterprise company disclosed that it will partner with Cebu-based non-government organizations to maximize the wastage of processed mango, particularly mango skin and seeds, for the requirement of its Mango Butter skin moisturizing product.

GKI President Anna Meloto-Wilk said the company is currently in talks with Philippine Business for Social Progress (PBSP) through its partnership program with German development agency-GIZ, the Strategic Corporation-Community Partnership for Local Development Program (SCOPE) and the University of Cebu (UC), for the sourcing of raw material for Mango Butter.

“Mango oil is considered as premium oil even more expensive than sunflower oil,” Meloto-Wilk said in an interview.

She noted that mango is a good source of skin moisturizing ingredient and demand is significantly increasing worldwide. Apart from body butter, Meloto-Wilk said the mango extracts can also be mixed in the company’s different skin and hair products such as lotion, moisturizers, and hair conditioner.

She said UC already has the technology in producing mango butter from those waste. – Malou M. Mozo

 

Published in the Manila Bulletin, 31 January 2012 ; http://www.mb.com.ph/articles/349820/mangoes-for-skin-product-eyed