Where to start with the palm oil purge?

The goal is easy: eliminating palm oil from my life. The path to doing so is not as easy. The challenges that I face:

• Identifying palm oil as an ingredient. As outlined previously, this isn't as easy as it ought to be. However, lists of products that are free of palm oil do exist;
• I currently share a house with two other people, neither of who is passionate about the issue. Whilst I can control what is bought collectively whilst I am shopping, I have no say over what they buy for the three of us;
• Working out where to buy palm oil-free products. Whilst palm oil-free chocolate is easy to find (hint: avoid Nestle as a starting point), finding cleaning products and personal hygiene items is more of a challenge; and
• Deciding what to do when I have no control over what I consume or any way to determine what path I should take.

There are a couple of concessions that I am making on the way to a palm oil-free lifestyle:

• I am not throwing anything away that I purchased previously because it contains palm oil. Whilst the goal may be a palm oil-free lifestyle, unnecessary waste along the way is not acceptable. I shall use up what I have purchased previously and vow to never buy said product again (unless it also makes the transition to a palm oil-free form); and
• Dining out: it is not necessarily possible to always determine beforehand whether a restaurant uses palm oil; in cases in which it is known, such places shall be avoided. When it is not known, highlighting the issue with the staff will be done, and if there is no interest in the matter, then the restaurant will not be frequented again in the future. I accept that this will not always be possible to control and that being completely rigid on this will be impossible (especially when travelling), but for local restaurants that I choose to frequent on a regular basis it is a realistic option.

Putting one's money where one's mouth is is an important aspect of pursuing a palm oil-free existence. Signing a petition to demand to better labelling of products is meaningless if business does not learn that consumers do care about what they consume and will support those businesses that are willing to no longer use palm oil- and boycott those that refuse to change.