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Are you Truly Living Cruelty Free?

If you love animals then you've probably heard the term cruelty free. Cruelty free refers to products (e.g. make-up) or lifestyle choices (e.g. vegetarianism) that do not cause harm to animals. I hope that this lens can prove to you that living cruelty free can be easy and beneficial to you as well as animals. And you can feel good about the fact that you'll be saving animal lives in the process!

This site is not to convince or scare/sicken you into a cruelty free life. There are no graphic pictures or horror stories of animal testing. This site is for people who know how terrible animal testing is and are working towards a a cruelty-free life to help them achieve that goal.

Update: I contacted Energizer, maker of Schick, Playtex, Hawaiian Tropic and other personal care products, about their process since I could not find any information on their animal testing policy. They answered that no animal testing is performed at any stage of their products manafacturing. Yay for another win!

Contents at a Glance

The Truth About Animal Cruelty
Cruelty Free Companies
Companies That DO Test on Animals
Things You May Not Know About Animal Tes...
How I Live Cruelty Free
Other Helpful Resources
Cruelty Free Shopping Aids
Vegetarian Living Books
Shelter Animal Stories-Reasons to Help!
Donations
Vow to be...Cruelty Free!
Comments

The Truth About Animal Cruelty

Being a vegetarian or a vegan and refusing to wear fur are great ways to be cruelty free, but there are many other ways to continue this task. For one, many corporations that make consumer goods, such as Procter and Gamble (e.g. Pantene Pro-V and Herbal Essences producers), Covergirl, Maybelline (cosmetics) and Johnson & Johnson test their products on innocent and defenseless animals. This causes much needless continued agony and pain for the test animals and often leads to their death. As an animal lover who also is interested in fashion, I found this information especially upsetting. Luckily, through intense research, I found a multitude of animal friendly companies at both the high-end designer and drugstore levels. So persons of all walks of life can live cruelty free! If companies, such as OPI, Revlon, and Sun Laboratories (laundry detergent) can create quality products without animal suffering, then there is no excuse for any company to do so.

The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.

--Mohandas Gandhi

Cruelty Free Companies

Here is a list of well-known companies that are cruelty free and produce animal friendly products. Feel free to contact me if you know of any I have missed!

Advantage Wonder Cleaner
AfterInked, LLC
Afterglow Cosmetics
Almay
America's Finest Products Corporation
American Safety Razor
Arbonne
Avalon Organics
Avedo
Avocado
Bare Escentuals
Bare Organics
bareFaced Mineral Cosmetics
Barefruit
Bath & Body Works
Bobbi Brown
Body Butter Factory
Body Scentsations
Bonne Bell
Botanical Skin Works
Bumble & Bumble
Burt's Bees
C.O. Bigelow
Carmex
Clarins of Paris
Clinque
Color Me Beautiful
Conair
Crabtree & Evelyn Cosmetics
Crystal Body Deodorant
David Babaii for Wild Aid
Dermalogica
E.L.F. Cosmetics
Ed Hardy Habit
Edge (Energizer)
Elizabeth Arden
Energizer
EOS
Estee Lauder
Eyes by Design
Fizz Bath Shop
Fleabusters/Rx for Fleas
Flirt!
Food Lion
Forsythe Cosmetic Group
Garden Botanika
Gourmet Body Treats
HALO, Purely for Pets
Hard Candy
Hawaiian Tropic (Energizer)
It's a 10 Haircare
Jamieson Laboratories
Jane
Jessica McClintock
Jheri Redding
Kiss My Face
L'Occitane
La Mer
Lee Pharmaceuticals
Liz Claiborne
MAC Cosmetics
Martha Stewart Products
Mitchum Deodorant (Revlon)
Murad, Inc
Nads
Nail Aid
Nature's Miracle
Nexxus
Nieva
OPI
Orly International
Organix
Palmers
Pathmark Stores
Paul Mitchell Systems
Pet Vitamins
Physician's Formula
Playtex (Energizer)
Prestige Cosmetics
Prescriptives
ProActive Solution
PurMinerals
Revlon
Rockstar Cosmetics
Safeway
Salon Nautrals
Shave, Inc
Shea Moisture
Schick (Energizer)
Sephora
Skintimate (Energizer)
Smashbox Cosmetics
Spice Cosmetics
Spring Rain Botanicals
Squid Balm
St. John's Botanicals
Stila Cosmetics
Studio Magic Cosmetics
Sudz
Tarte Cosmetics
Terra Naturals
That's So Raven
Too Faced Cosmetics
Trader Joe's
Tressa
Ulta
Urban Decay
Veterinarian's Best
Veterinary Nutritional Formula
Victoria's Secret
VIP Soap Products
Vivoderm
Watkins Incorporated
Wet N Wild
Wet Ones (Energizer)
Whole Foods Market

Companies That DO Test on Animals

Well-known companies that DO test on animals. Ones to avoid! Notice that almost all the companies on this list are produced by only a few different distributers. If you cut those out of your usage, you're over halfway there!

3M
Acuvue (Johnson & Johnson)
Aim (Church & Dwight)
Air Wick (Reckitt Benckiser)
Ajax (Colgate-Palmolive)
Alberto-Culver (Unilever)
Always (Procter & Gamble)
Ambi (Johnson & Johnson)
Aquafresh (GlaxoSmithKline)
Arm & Hammer (Church & Dwight)
Armor All (Clorox)
Arrid (Church & Dwight)
Aussie (Procter & Gamble)
Aveeno (Johnson & Johnson)
Avon
Axe (Unilever)
Ban (KAO)
Band-Aid (Johnson & Johnson)
Bed Head (Unilever)
Bic Corporation
Biore (KAO)
Biotherm (L'Oreal)
Blue Buffalo
The Body Shop (L'Oreal)
Bounty (Procter & Gamble)
Braun (Procter & Gamble)
Cacharel (L'Oreal)
Calgon (Reckitt Benckiser)
Carefree (Johnson & Johnson)
Cascade (Proctor & Gamble)
Chapstick (Pfizer)
Charmin (Procter & Gamble)
Christina Aguilera Perfumes (Procter & Gamble)
Church & Dwight (Arm & Hammer)
Clairol (Procter & Gamble)
Clean & Clear (Johnson & Johnson)
Clearasil (Reckitt Benckiser)
Clorox
Close-up (Church & Dwight)
Colgate-Palmolive Co.
Comfort (Unilever)
Coppertone (Schering-Plough)
CoverGirl (Proctor & Gamble)
Curel (KAO)
Crest (Procter & Gamble)
Dawn (Proctor & Gamble)
DDF (Procter & Gamble)
Dial Corporation
Diesel (L'Oreal)
Dolce & Gabbana (Procter & Gamble)
Dove (Unilever)
Downy (Procter & Gamble)
Drano (S.C. Johnson)
Dry Idea (Dial)
Dunhill Fragrances (Procter & Gamble)
Duracell (Proctor & Gamble)
Easy-Off (Reckitt Benckiser)
ERA (Procter & Gamble)
Escada Fragrances (Procter & Gamble)
Ever Clean (Clorox)
Fantastik (S.C. Johnson)
Febreze (Procter & Gamble)
Fekkai (Procter & Gamble)
Finish (Reckitt Benckiser)
Fixodent (Proctor & Gamble)
Formula 409 (Clorox)
Fresh Step (Clorox)
Gain (Procter & Gamble)
Garnier (L'Oreal)
Gillette Co.(Procter & Gamble)
Giorgio Armani (L'Oreal)
Glad (Clorox)
Glade (S.C. Johnson)
Green Works (Clorox)
Gucci Fragrances (Procter & Gamble)
Halo (Procter & Gamble)
Head & Shoulders (Procter & Gamble)
Helena Rubinstein (Procter & Gamble)
Herbal Essences (Procter & Gamble)
Hugo Boss (Procter & Gamble)
Iams (Procter & Gamble)
Infusium 23 (Procter & Gamble)
Ivory (Procter & Gamble)
Jergens (KAO)
John Freida (KAO)
Johnson & Johnson
Johnson's (Johnson & Johnson)
Joy (Procter & Gamble)
K.Y. (Johnson & Johnson)
Kaboom (Church & Dwight)
KAO
Kerastase (L'Oreal)
Keri
Kiehl's (L'Oreal)
L'Oreal
Lacoste Fragrances (Procter & Gamble)
Lancome (L'Oreal)
LaRoche Porsay (L'Oreal)
Lever Bros. (Unilever)
Liquid Plumr (Clorox)
Listerine (Johnson & Johnson)
Lubriderm (Johnson & Johnson)
Luvs (Procter and Gamble)
Lux (Unilever)
Lysol (Reckitt Benckiser)
Mary Kay
Matrix Essentials (L'Oreal)
Max Factor (Procter & Gamble)
Maybelline (L'Oreal)
Mead
Melaleuca
Mentadent (Church & Dwight)
Merck
Mizani (L'Oreal)
Mop & Glo (Reckitt Benckiser)
Mr. Clean (Procter & Gamble)
Nair (Church & Dwight)
Nars (Shiseido Cosmetics)
Natural Instincts (Procter & Gamble)
Nature's Source (SC Johnson)
Neutrogena (Johnson & Johnson)
Nexcare (3M)
New Dana Perfumes
Nice 'n Easy (Procter & Gamble)
Noxema (Procter & Gamble)
Off (S.C.Johnson)
Olay (Procter & Gamble)
Old English (Reckitt Benckiser)
Old Spice (Procter & Gamble)
Oomph (Clorox)
Orajel (Church & Dwight)
Oral-B (Procter & Gamble)
Oust (SC Johnson)
OxiClean (Church & Dwight)
Palmolive (Colgate-Palmolive Co.)
Pampers (Procter & Gamble)
Pantene (Procter & Gamble)
Pearl Drops (Church & Dwight)
Pfizer
Physique (Procter & Gamble)
Pine-Sol (Clorox)
Piz Buin (Johnson & Johnson)
Pledge (S.C. Johnson)
Ponds (Unilever)
Post-It (3M)
Procter & Gamble
Puffs (Procter & Gamble)
Purell (Johnson & Johnson)
Purex (Dial)
Purpose (Johnson & Johnson)
Raid (S.C. Johnson)
Ralph Lauren Fragrances (L'oreal)
Reach (Johnson & Johnson)
Reckitt Benckiser
Redken (L'Oreal)
Rembrandt (Johnson & Johnson)
ReNu (Bausch + Lomb)
Renuzit (Dial)
Resolve (Reckitt Benckiser)
Rid-X (Reckitt Benckiser)
Right Guard (Dial)
ROC (Johnson & Johnson)
Rogaine (Johnson & Johnson)
S.O.S. (Clorox)
S.C. Johnson
Salvon (Johnson & Johnson)
Schering-Plough (Merck)
Scoop Away (Clorox)
Scope (Procter & Gamble)
Scrubbing Bubbles (S.C. Johnson)
Sea Breeze
Sebastian Professional (Procter & Gamble)
Secret (Procter & Gamble)
Sensodyne (GlaxoSmithKline)
Shiseido Cosmetics
Shout (S.C. Johnson)
Shower to Shower (Johnson & Johnson)
Shu Uemura (L'Oreal)
Signal (Unilever)
SK-II (Procter & Gamble)
SkinCeuticals (L'Oreal)
Skin ID (Johnson & Johnson)
Soft & Dri (Dial)
Soft Scrub (Dial)
SoftSheen (L'Oreal)
Softsoap (Colgate-Palmolive Co.)
Speed Stick (Colgate-Palmolive Co.)
Spray 'N Wash (Reckitt Benckiser)
Stayfree (Johnson & Johnson)
St. Ives (Unilever)
Suave (Unilever)
Sunsilk (Unilever)
Sunlight (Unilever)
Surf (Unilever)
Swiffer (Procter & Gamble)
Tampax (Proctor & Gamble)
Tide (Procter & Gamble)
TIGI (Unilever)
Tilex (Clorox)
Unilever
Vaseline (Unilever)
Veet
Vichy (L'Oreal)
Vicks (Procter & Gamble)
Vidal Sasson (Procter & Gamble)
Viktor & Rolf (L'Oreal)
Walgreens
Windex (S.C. Johnson)
Woolite
Zest (Procter & Gamble)
Ziploc (S.C. Johnson)

Things You May Not Know About Animal Testing

1. Animal testing for cosmetics and household products is not required by the FDA or the Consumer Product Safety Commission for safety for humans. Also, many other ways have been created to test the effectiveness of a product for humans without causing animal suffering (E.g. past research information, synthetic skin, etc.)

2. Mice and rats are excluded from the Animal Welfare Act statistics, therefore, the actual number of animals used in product testing is unknown, but grossly more than reported.

3. Claims about animal testing on products' labels are not regulated by any state or federal entity. Thus, terms like "not tested on animals" or "cruelty-free" maynot be true in actuality. Animal testing can occur anywhere within the manufacturing process. So, if a product does not test its "final" product on animals, it may test it all the way up to that point. It also might say that it is not tested on animals, but the ingredients could be or could be purchased from companies that are known to test on animals.

4. Animal testing for cosmetics has been banned in a number of European countries.

How I Live Cruelty Free

My Picks

Here is a list of the products I use to prove that living cruelty free is possible!

Mascara- Almay One Coat Dial Up or Revlon Custom Eyes
Blush- Revlon
Foundation- Almay TLC
Bronzer- Physician's Formula Bamboo Wear
Eyeliner- Revlon Color Stay and Physician's Formula Eye Definer
Face Powder- Revlon Color Stay
Eye Shadow- Physician's Formula Baked Collection
Lip Gloss- BonneBelle
Lipstick- Revlon Lip Butter
Concealer- MAC Studio Finish
Nail polish- Revlon and Zoya
Make-up Remover- Burt's Bees Facial Cleansing Towelettes

Shampoo- Paul Mitchell or Organix
Body Wash- Bath & Body Works
Shaving Cream- EOS or Skintimate
Landry Detergent- All or Wisk
Dishwasher Detergent- Sunlight OxiClean
Deodarant- Mitchum
Toothpaste- Burt's Bees
Razors- Schick Quattro
Sunscreen- Hawaiian Tropic Silk Hydration or Arbonne

Other Helpful Resources

PETA: This links to PETA's website with more cruelty free companies for animal friendly shopping.
ASPCA: For great information on animal rescue and welfare.
Petfinder: If looking for a new companion animal, remember to think adoption first! Find your newest family member at a shelter near you.
Animal Rescue Site: Shop cruelty free with an added bonus. Everytime you shop, food is donated to shelter animals in need.
Leaping Bunny: Another great list of compassionate and cruelty free companies.

Cruelty Free Shopping Aids

Vegetarian Living Books

Shelter Animal Stories-Reasons to Help!

I have read all of these books and personally recommend them.

Donations

Help animals through donations. There are always so many things shelter animals need. The ASPCA provides a mulitude of services to aid in the comfort of animals in need and their rescue and safety. And if you can't donate money, don't forget that many shelters in your area could use your volunteered time as well!

The Society was formed to alleviate the injustices animals faced then, and we continue to battle cruelty today. Whether it's saving a pet who has been accidentally poisoned, fighting to pass humane laws, rescuing animals from abuse or sharing resources wi

Vow to be...Cruelty Free!

Comments

Sue says:

Thank you for such an informative article! Please remember, though, when it comes to animal testing only one list is truly cruelty-free -- that is Leaping Bunny.

Oftentimes, products claim to be "cruelty-free" or "not tested on animals,? but their claims may only refer to the finished product. As you may be aware, the majority of animal testing occurs at the ingredient level. Similarly, some companies may state, ?We do not test on animals,? when in fact they merely contract other companies to do the testing. These kinds of claims are often confusing and misleading for consumers.

The Leaping Bunny Program offers not just a list, but a Standard?the only Standard that guarantees a product free of new animal testing. While many ingredients have been tested on animals in the past, the Standard is designed to prevent future animal testing and eventually drive animal testing out of the industry completely! In addition, the Leaping Bunny Standard is internationally recognized. Formed from the nation's largest animal protection groups, the CCIC also partners with animal protection groups in Canada and Europe.
http://www.leapingbunny.org/faq.php