The Best Vegan Beauty Product Series: The Best Skin Serum

We’ve reviewed scores of vegetarian and cruelty-free beauty products over the years, and it’s hard to chose the best. There are so many contenders out there. But the best doesn’t simply mean the most effective; our standards are higher than that. It means the most effective, vegan, cruelty-free and purest products out there. We’re starting our new “best of” series, that covers our favorite vegan beauty products in each category, starting with skin serum.

Elemental Herbs Vegetarian and Cruelty-Free Beauty Products

Half of being beautiful, if not more, is being healthy. Vegetarian and cruelty-free beauty products like cosmetics and perfume can only take you so far; having healthy and beautiful skin and hair is just as important, if not more so. Keeping the skin beautiful, and healing it when facing maladies such as sunburns and bug bites, is part of what Elemental Herbs does best. Where many products of this type incorporate harsh ingredients like petroleum. Elemental Herbs makes products that have the desired effects of petroleum-based products, such as locking in moisture, without the negative side-effects.

Yes To Vegetarian Beauty Products

Yes To vegetarian beauty products was founded with the idea that they wanted an effective line of natural skin and hair care products, as well as a company that is focused on positivity and offers reasonably priced products. Consisting of four main brand names, Nourishing (carrot), Soothing (cucumber), Clear Skin (tomato) and Age Referesh (Blueberry), Yes To has twice been awarded PETA’s “Best Beauty Brand.”

Bobbi Brown Cosmetics – NOT CRUELTY-FREE

Bobbi Brown Cosmetics sells makeup for the lips, eyes, cheeks, and face as well as moisturizers, cleansers, toners, makeup tools, and fragrances. Product ingredients run the gamut from Vitamins C and E to grapefruit and geranium.

MyChelle Dermaceuticals

MyChelle Dermaceuticals sells everything from cleansers and facial moisturizers to mineral cosmetics and products for men.

Hawaiian Skin Care Products by Alba Botanica

Alba Botanica’s Hawaiian skin care products are formulated with tropical fruit extracts, plant oils, and organic aloe vera. Alba Botanica chose these ingredients for their curative and rejuvenating properties.

Alba Botanica

Alba products do not contain synthetic colors, they are pH balanced, and they feature 100% vegetarian ingredients. Alba Botanica does not test its products on animals.

Clarins Beauty Products – NOT CRUELTY-FREE

Clarins has been producing cosmetics and skincare products since 1954. The Clarins Group prides itself on consumer safety and the protection of both the environment and animals, so in 1994 the French company decided to stop using andy ingredients of animal origin in its formulas.