There is a need for specialized chemical compounds for use in industry, but that doesn't mean...

That the use of environmentally unfriendly, intensively manufactured products should be preferred, when a healthy and wholesale natural alternative is available.

Yes, cost can become a factor.

But much of the economic attraction of synthetic products is the artificially low price being paid by industry for resources and the opportunity to pollute the environment.

As all intensive industries tend to be polluting, and the more natural products are processed, the more pollution their tends to be.