Palm oil itself is a very healthy, wonderful fat. As you know, the vast majority is not from sustainable, or fair trade farms and it's production is destructive to wildlife, environment and people. I do believe there ARE some good palm oil farms. There are a few old plantation farms that are fair trade and you can buy palm oil from them (but you're still looking at global shipping issues as the ones I'm aware of are in south america. I highly doubt your soap is using a sustainably sourced oil if they're not telling you about it because it costs a lot.