Vegetarian Beauty Products

Reviews of Vegetarian & Vegan Makeup, Skin Care, Hair Care and Other Beauty Products

  • Summary: Renewal and Vitality Lavender products are free of mineral oil, petrolatum, propylene glycol, artificial colors, parabens, and synthetic fragrances.

    Avalon Organics Renewal and Vitality Lavender line was specially formulated for people with sensitive skin. Individuals with sensitive skin are prone to inflammation caused by free radicals, UV rays, environmental stress, lack of adequate moisture in the skin, and irritants in skin care products. Renewal and Vitality Lavender advance formulation relieves and calms irritated skin, minimizes blotchiness and redness, and it nourishes and balances sensitive skin.

    Renewal and Vitality Lavender products are free of mineral oil, petrolatum, propylene glycol, artificial colors, parabens, and synthetic fragrances. Avalon Organics believes that the elimination of these ingredients alone helps eliminate many external causes of inflammation and skin sensitivity. What Renewal and Vitality Lavender products do contain is a number of essential all natural ingredients including: organic lavender, licorice root, organic chamomile, organic white tea, grape seed polyphenols, organic borage and flax seed oil, hyaluronic acid, lipo-filling complex, and peptide complex.

    Avalon Organics Renewal and Vitality Lavender Products and Ingredients

    The Renewal and Vitality Lavender Product Line includes the facial cleansing gel, facial cleansing milk, hydrating toner, daily moisturizer, ultimate moisture cream, renewal facial serum, revitalizing eye gel, exfoliating enzyme scrub, and moisture plus lotion with SPF 18.

    Facial Cleansing Gel
    Gentle coconut-based cleanser made with organic lavender, chamomile, licorice & arnica extracts, and organic borage and flax oils.

    Facial Cleansing Milk
    Emollient cleanser made with organic lavender, chamomile, licorice, arnica and tumeric extracts, organic sunflower, borage and flax oils, and organic aloe vera.

    Hydrating Toner
    Alcohol-free, herbal hydrating aloe vera toner, hyaluronuic acid and sodium PCA, green tea, white tea, and vitamin C.

    Daily Moisturizer
    hyaluronic acid and organic sunflower oil, white tea, grape seed polyphenols, vitamin C and vitamin E, lipo-filling complex from kombuchka.

    Ultimate Moisture Cream
    Organic borage, jojoba, almond, sunflower and evening primrose oils, hyaluronic acid, lipo-filling complex from kombuchka, white tea, green tea, vitamin E, organic lavender, chamomile, arnica, licorice root, willow bark, tumeric, calendula and comfrey.

    Renewal Facial Serum
    Organic lavender, chamomile, arnica, licorice root, calendula, willow bark and kelp extracts, lipo-filling complex from kombuchka, white tea, vitamin E, vitamin C, and grape seed polyphenols.

    Revitalizing Eye Gel
    Peptide complex, hyaluronic acid, sodium pca and aloe vera, organic arnica extract, and white tea and grape seed polyphenols.

    Exfoliating Enzyme Scrub
    Walnut and grape seed powders, bromelain and papain, and coleus forskohli oil.

    Moisture Plus Lotion with SPF 18
    FDA approved sunscreen, organic sunflower, borage, flax, coconut and rose hip oils, white tea, vitamin C and E, and hyaluronic acid.

    About Avalon Organics

    Founded in 1989, Avalon Organics is a producer of bath and body care products. Formerly named Avalon Natural Products, Avalon Organics creates pure bath and body care products without compromising the health and safety of animals or the environment. The company is inspired by organic agriculture and the ongoing cause of sustainability. Avalon Organic uses only 100% vegetarian ingredients and it rejects all animal testing.

    Where to buy Avalon Organics products

    Avalon Organics products can be purchased online at www.avalonorganics.com, by phone at Natural Products Shopping 1-877-263-9456 (toll-free), Monday - Friday, 8:30 - 5:00 (CST) or at Whole Foods Market, Wild Oats, Trader Joe’s, Bread and Circus, Central Market, Chamberlains, Fresh Fields, Mrs. Greens, or select GNC stores, as well as leading independent natural food retailers that carry a wide selection of Avalon Organics products.


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  • Summary: Avalon Organics is inspired by organic agriculture and the ongoing cause of sustainability. Bcause of this, Avalon Organics uses only 100% vegetarian ingredients and it rejects all animal testing.

    Founded in 1989, Avalon Organics is a producer of bath and body care products. Formerly named Avalon Natural Products, Avalon Organics creates pure bath and body care products without compromising the health and safety of animals or the environment. The company is inspired by organic agriculture and the ongoing cause of sustainability. Avalon Organics uses only 100% vegetarian ingredients and it rejects all animal testing.

    Avalon Organics products are formulated without parabens, harsh preservatives, synthetic fragrances, artificial colors, sodium lauryl and laureth sulfates, formaldehyde donors (e.g., diazolidinyl urea), known carcinogens, mutagens and teratogens or grapefruit seed extract. The company offers the following argument for its decision to exclude grapefruit extract from all of its products.

    Grapefruit Seed Extract in its purest form is a safe and beneficial ingredient. However, many companies claim to use this ingredient alone as a preservative. It does not have the long-lasting anti-microbial effectiveness required to maintain the integrity of a personal care product when used alone. Many studies show that the true anti-microbial benefits being attributed to Grapefruit Seed Extract are due to the presence of residual synthetic preservatives within the extract.

    Avalon Bath and Body products are created with what the company calls “science-based nutrients,” as well as natural botanicals. Ingredients such as organic essential oils and organic plant oils help to provide superior natural products while producing a “measurable expansion of organic acreage cultivation.”

    In addition to providing products that help to preserve the environment, Avalon Organics’ own working environment helps to save the planet and it is one that encourages giving back through volunteer work. Roughly 28% of the company’s employees do volunteer work in the community. This means Avalon Organics supports 48 non-profit organizations. Avalon Organics office and warehouse are 100% solar powered, the company has a comprehensive reduce, reuse, recycle policy (and practices) in place, it recycles printer cartridges, bottles and cans giving proceeds to non-profits, it purchases and reuses recycled office paper with 35% post-consumer content, and it uses recycled paper for all printed promotion materials.

    And finally, Avalon Organics does not stop at saving the environment and providing vegetarian, cruelty-free products to its customers, the company is also the creator of the Avalon Organics Heroes Challenge –a $50,000 matching grant to benefit the Breast Cancer Fund.

    Avalon Organics bath and body products

    Avalon Organics offers bath and shower products, soaps, shave products, lotions, fragrance free body care products, cleansers, toners, moisturizers, intensives, and a line called “COQ10,” “Lavender” and “Vitamin C.” The company also produces shampoos, conditioners, and fragrance free hair care products as well as products for baby such as cleansers, moisturizers, and skin protection.

    Avalon Organics vegetarian ethic and what it means

    As stated earlier, all Avalon Organic products are 100% vegetarian. The company makes maximum use of ingredients derived from natural plant sources, including vegetable and nut oils, plant waxes, herbal extracts and pure essential oils. The company rejects ingredients that are by-products of the meat and fishing industry such as gelatin, tallow, collagen, elastin, squalene, and others. Avalon also rejects all cruelly obtained animal ingredients such as musk, castoreum and cochineal (carmine).

    While, the vegetarian ethic allows for the use of humanely derived milk, honey, beeswax and lanolin, only a very limited number of Avalon Organics products contain one of these ingredients. This means that the following products do not meet vegan guidelines:

    *Alba
    Lipcare 18 SPF: Beeswax, Lanolin
    Terra Tints: Beeswax
    Sugar Cane Body Polish: Honey

    *Un-Petroleum
    Natural Lip Balm: Beeswax, Lanolin
    Multi-Purpose Jelly: Beeswax

    Avalon Organics ingredients

    Avalon Organics has a long list of all natural, vegetarian and vegan ingredients that it uses in its products. The list is too long to print here. For a full list of ingredients, click here. Just a few of the ingredients Avalon Organics uses include: algae, almond, aloe vera, apricot kernel oil, avocado oil, awaphui, balm mint, biotin, black pepper, burdock root, caramel, castor oil, chamomile, chlorophyll, coconut extract, ginger, oak bark, oatmeal, soy bean oil, St. Johnswort, sugar cane juice, sunflower oil, sweet almond oil, sweet orange oil, tea tree, vanilla, walnut extract, white tea, wild yam root, ylang ylang, and vitamins A, B, C, E.

    Where to buy Avalon Organics products

    Avalon Organics products can be purchased online at www.avalonorganics.com, by phone at Natural Products Shopping 1-877-263-9456 (toll-free), Monday - Friday, 8:30 - 5:00 (CST) or at Whole Foods Market, Wild Oats, Trader Joe’s, Bread and Circus, Central Market, Chamberlains, Fresh Fields, Mrs. Greens, or select GNC stores, as well as leading independent natural food retailers that carry a wide selection of Avalon Organics products.


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