Complex supply chains and climate change make 'clean beauty' near impossible

EAST GARAFRAXA, Ontario — Julie Thurgood-Burnett had no idea that her coronavirus lockdown whim of starting a lavender patch on her husband’s family farm outside Toronto would turn into a small business. She had never been a farmer, but before long she had a bright purple field and a new hobby of creating lavender oil for her friends and family, who liked it so much she ran out.