Cruelty-Free Beauty is a unregulated term. There are
organizations created to provied certifications to companies to provide
endorcement for a brand to show consumers that animals are not being used
to test their products. But not all of these certifications are treated
the same. Some certifications are provided if a company can prove that
their final product is not tested on animals, even if their ingredients
are tested on animals, or they sell in countries that still require animal
testing by law to sell in their stores. Other certifications go through a
deep process and vouch that a brand is not using animals to test their
products anywhere in the production line including their ingredients and
they are not selling their products in stores in countries that still
require ths outdated method of safety checking.
Other things that people frequently get confused are whether or not terms
like vegan is a synonym with
cruelty-free.
Spoiler-alert: They are not the same thing.
Brands can be considered cruelty-free and use ingredients such as bees wax
or lanolin. Also, brands can be considered vegan and still test on
animals.
For more information on Cruelty-Free Beauty including lists of brands that are Cruelty-Free, please check out Cruelty-Free Kitty.
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