The tagline of Dr. Susan Lark’s beauty products is: Be healthy. Be vibrant. Be beautiful… unless you’re a shark. Then, be dead.
Dr. Lark sells a line of beauty products using squalene harvested from the livers of sharks. That’s a problem, because sharks are undergoing severe population declines around the world.
The sharks used to provide the squalene for Dr. Lark beauty products are captured and killed by bottom-trawling deep sea fishing operations. Those operations use heavy nets that drag across fragile ecosystems on the ocean floor, ripping them up and replacing healthy marine habitat with deep sea deserts.
The tragedy of it all is that Dr. Lark could just as easily obtain squalene from olives grown organically in sustainable groves. Instead, Dr. Lark has chosen to support the destructive overfishing of the world’s oceans.
If this environmental destruction were happening in order to provide life-saving medications available in no other way, perhaps there might be some reasonable excuse for it. But that’s not what we’re talking about. The following are the kind of beauty products Dr. Lark uses bottom dredged shark liver squalene in:
- Moisturizing Body Mist
- Rejuvenating Eye Cream
- Ultra-Hydrating Night Cream
My irregular beauty tip: If you’re willing to subsidize the ecological destruction of the oceans so that you can make yourself feel pretty with moisturizing body mist, don’t bother. You’re already ugly to the bone.
Instead, do something truly beautiful: Boycott all Dr. Lark’s products until she agrees to stop using shark liver squalene, and let her know she’s lost your business.
Good news on this subject. Dr. Lark has agreed to stop doing ugly business. She now gets squalene from olives, rather than from sharks.
See: http://www.skincareblog.net/2009/01/05/squalane-from-dr-susan-lark/
Good for Dr. Lark!