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It is astonishing how many beauty products aren’t vegetarian (let alone vegan); products that you would never in a million years think would have animal products in them. So if you are taking care to use vegan makeup or vegan beauty products (or vegetarian makeup or beauty products), it can be hard to be sure that a particular makeup or beauty product really is vegan or vegetarian.
This page contains a list of products that are surpisingly not vegetarian or vegan, both within the article, and in the comments (keep those comments coming!)
Please add your finds of beauty products that aren’t vegetarian in the comments below!
To get us started:
Burt’s Bees – uses carmine, which is made from the shells of the cochineal beetle
Too Faced – their Lip Injection Extreme is made from marine sponge (sponges are actually animals, not plants), and also contains collegen (source unknown, but almost always an animal source).
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3 Responses to “Beauty Products and Makeup That You Might Think are Vegetarian or Vegan, But Aren’t”
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Joyce
Hello, I am quite confused that your website mentioned that avon was a cruelty free company. I have been selling avon now for a few years and was not aware until recently when looking up the ingredients and discovered that many of the products contain carmine in them. Avon also contains collagen and retinol in many of their lipsticks and skincare? Joyce
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Joyce
I was wondering if anyone knows if the avon smooth mineral makeup is carmine free. After tring to contact avon about this, still no wiser. One of the products says dye free? Does this mean carmine free? Joyce
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Hi Joyce, There is much misperception about what the words vegan and vegetarian represent when it comes to cosmetics.
1.Legally, if a company purchases their base from another company, they don’t have to disclose what the purchased ingredients are on their label. Giving them legal grounds to claim cruelty free on the label.
2. Anything FDA approved IS tested on animals. The companies test synthetic ingredients on rabbits, grasshopper, rats, mice, even bacteria to see what the threshhold is before it causes damage. They back off that point and they are considered “safe within limits.”I suggest going to http://www.ewg.org, plug in your cosmetic and see what’s in it. Bottom line for us, if you can’t eat it, don’t put it on your skin.
Cheers!
Polly GlasseHere are the ingredients of Avon Mineral Makeup Ingredients
Here are the Avon Mineral Makeup IngredientsMica
Titanium Dioxide
Silica
Calcium Pca
Zinc Pca
Saccharomyces/copper Ferment
Saccharomyces/magnesium Ferment
Saccharomyces/zinc Ferment
Saccharomyces/malachite Ferment
Saccharomyces/tourmaline Ferment
Kaolin
Lauryl Pca
Sodium Pca
Lecithin
Retinyl Palmitate
Sodium Chondroitin Sulfate
Tocopherol
Sodium Hyaluronate
Ascorbyl Palmitate
Atelocollagen
Beta-carotene
Trehalose
Polyquaternium-51
Phenyl Trimethicone
Urea
C12-15 Alkyl Benzoate
Silica Dimethyl Silylate
Methylparaben
Imidazolidinyl Urea
Propylparaben
May Contain:
Iron Oxides
Bismuth Oxychloride/ci 77163Read more: http://www.mineral-makeup-reviews.com/Avon-Mineral-Makeup-Ingredients.html#ixzz1A0KvsmQD
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