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Vegan Beauty from Avon

Pamela Murphy, AVON Independent Sales Representative

There’s a lot of buzz these days about vegan beauty.

But what makes a product vegan, exactly?

To be called vegan, a product must not contain any animal-derived ingredients, such as casein, lanolin, glycerin, elastin, stearic acid, and keratin. They also cannot contain ingredients made by animals, such as milk, honey, or beeswax.

If you are vegan or even vegetarian, this is probably important to you. Some vegans go so far as to not wear leather, silk, or wool clothing and accessories.

Vegan cosmetics and skin care products may be entirely plant-based, or they may contain some ingredients that are made in a lab. You can check ingredients for most products on their websites.

Why Choose Vegan?

There are many reasons why vegan is a good choice. Of course, one of the main reasons is a love for animals and concern for them. Note that vegan and cruelty-free are not necessarily interchangeable. Cruelty-free means that a product has not been tested on animals. A product may be cruelty-free but not vegan, and vice-versa. Avon and its parent company, LG H&H, care deeply about animal welfare.

The Avon Company (“Avon”), with operations in the U.S. and Puerto Rico and through affiliation in Canada, has deep respect for animal welfare and does not conduct animal testing. Avon is a strong advocate of both the ethical and humane treatment of animals and the protection of human health and safety. Our products are developed utilizing alternative testing methods such as extrapolations from existing data, computational modeling, in vitro (test tube/cell culture) testing and clinical tests with human volunteers, to ensure both their efficacy and safety.

From Avon’s Animal Welfare Policy

For the purposes of this post, I will concentrate on vegan products.

When you choose a vegan beauty product, or any vegan product for that matter, you are voting with your dollars for a cruelty-free future where no animals will have to suffer or die for the sake of products that can be made in other ways. I mean, who really wants to powder their face with crushed beetles? Not me!

Just as a plant-based diet is better for your health, plant-based beauty products may be better for your skin. Just be sure to check the ingredients list if you have any known allergies.

Vegan cosmetics are better for the planet, too. Most vegan products are made with more natural ingredients and fewer synthetics, which means fewer toxic chemicals are released into our waterways, soil, and air. It also means fewer fossil fuels are being used to product said synthetics.

Vegan products help save the bees. Bee-derived products are actually quite common in cosmetics. The trouble is that these ingredients are not typically sourced sustainably. Bees are a very important part of our ecosystem, and without them, many crops would fail and food would become scarce. Bees are essential to the life of the planet.

If you decide to choose vegan products, I have compiled a list of Avon’s vegan offerings for you here. And more are being added all the time, because Avon is aware of how important an issue this is.

Avon’s Vegan Bath & Body Products

Avon’s Vegan Skin Care

Avon’s Vegan Makeup

Avon’s Vegan Hair Care

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