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Premier Dead Sea logo. Dead Sea Premier Cosmetics Laboratories (Hebrew: פרמייר מעבדות ים המלח) is an Israeli cosmetics and skincare company that manufactures its products using mineral components extracted from the Dead Sea. It was founded in 1990 and is part of Hadan Group, which has been specializing in cosmetics since 1979.
Some consumers and human rights groups have endorsed boycotts of Dead Sea products and other materials made in or along the West Bank of the Dead Sea, [14] citing concerns such as blatant violation of human rights in Israel or of certain companies being "economically linked to Israel's illegal occupation of the Palestinian territories." [15] [16]
Israel has imported raw materials for its Dead Sea mud cosmetics from Jordan since 1994. [3] In 2009, Ahava took on new shareholder Shamrock Holdings, the investment company owned by Disney Family, which purchased 20% of Ahava Dead Sea Laboratories from its existing shareholders. [13] [14] The company has 200 employees, 180 of them in Israel. [14]
Seacret (Seacret Spa International/Seacret Direct) is a United States-based multi-level marketing company that sells cosmetic and other personal care products made from Dead Sea minerals, mud, and nutrients. [2] The company was founded by Izhak and Moty Ben Shabat in 2005. [2]
It has customers in over 60 countries. Dead Sea Works is part of the Fertilizers Division of Israel Chemicals Ltd. [5] It is located in the southern basin of the Dead Sea and the extracted chemicals are exported around the world. [7] Rather than extracting potash and other minerals from the Dead Sea by mining them directly, the company makes ...
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The archaeologists are trying to preserve relics near a 5,000-year-old port which once was a key trade hub for the Mediterranean's ancient civilizations.
The Dead Sea is a salt lake is bordered by Jordan to the east and Palestine's Israeli-occupied West Bank and Israel to the west. [5] [6] It is an endorheic lake, meaning there are no outlet streams. The Dead Sea lies in the Jordan Rift Valley, a geographic feature formed by the Dead Sea Transform (DST).