Two major beauty companies have been accused of being complicit in child labour, after an investigation found children were being used to pick ingredients for luxury perfumes.
Suppliers of jasmine for Lancôme and Aerin Beauty allegedly hired young children in Egypt for as little as £1.18 a day to pick the flowers for use in three luxury products - Lancôme Idôle L'Intense and Ikat Jasmine and Limone Di Sicilia for Aerin Beauty - according to the BBC .
One woman, from Gharbia in the heart of Egypt's jasmine region, told the BBC that she is forced to wake her family up at 3am every day to begin picking jasmine flowers before the sun damages them. Heba said she needed her four children, aged between five and 15, to help as they earn more money if they pick more flowers.BBC reporters said they witnessed children under the age of 15 picking jasmine in at least four different locations across the region.
'They actually don't govern the salary or the wages of the harvesters, nor the actual price of jasmine, because they are beyond that.BBC reporters said they witnessed children under the age of 15 picking jasmine in at least four different locations across the region
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