Best cruelty free cosmetic products

How to understand when products are cruelty-free? Which cosmetic companies truly respect animals? Here is our list to understand how to choose.

The list below indicates the INCI of cruelty free cosmetic products and whether this uses animal ingredients in some products. For those that use animal ingredients, you need to check the ingredients before purchasing.

Below we list the non-vegan ingredients to AVOID and their INCI code, because they often appear with this code in the list of ingredients.

Honey: indicated in INCI as MEL or HONEY
Beeswax: indicated as CERA ALBA, BEES WAX
Cochineal: E120, CI 75470, Natural Red 4, Crimson Lake or Cochineal
Propolis: referred to as PROPOLIS CERA / PROPOLIS EXTRACT
Royal jelly: ROYAL JELLY, ROYAL JELLY EXTRACT
Lanolin: indicated as LANOLIN, or its derivatives: Isopropyl Lanolate, AmerlateP, Amerlate W, Lanolin, Iso-Pr esters lanolin fatty acids, Lanesta S, Lanolic acid, Lanolin fatty acid iso-Pr esters, Lanolin acids
Stearic acid: STEARIC ACID
Glycerine: GLYCERIN (there is no distinction in INCI whether it is of animal or vegetable origin)
Collagen: COLLAGEN, SOLUBLE COLLAGEN, HYDROLIZED COLLAGEN
Placenta: HYDROLIZED PLACENTAL PROTEIN, PLACENTAL PROTEIN, PLACENTAL EXTRACT
Milk, cream, whey: LACTIS LIPIDA, LACTIS PROTEINUM, LAC, CAPRAE LAC (goat's milk)
Lactose: LACTOSE
Egg: EGG, EGG OIL, EGG EXTRACT, EGG POWDER, EGG YOLK, EGG YOLK EXTRACT
Silk proteins: HYDROLIZED SILK PROTEIN, SERICIN, FIBROIN
Elastin: ELASTIN
Bovine tallow: SODIUM TALLOWATE (can be easily found in soaps).

It is not always easy to distinguish which cosmetic products are tested on animals and which are not. Above all because the law does not oblige the company to specify it on the packaging: this is undoubtedly one of the most controversial exceptions and one of the most assiduous struggles of animal rights associations, which ask that it be made mandatory.
Luckily, the Cruelty Free Foundation has designed a logo for animal-free brands to put on their product packaging.

You will find a cute bunny that tells you that the product is not tested on animals. We have selected some of the most popular, but you can check thefull list here. None of them have animal compounds or performed tests on them.

Here are the cruelty free cosmetic products:

Anastasia Beverly Hills
BareMinerals
Kat Von D Beauty
English
Marc Jacobs Beauty
My Konjac Sponge
NYX Los Angeles Inc.
The Body Shop
Too Faced Cosmetics
Urban Decay
Smashbox Cosmetics
Tarte Cosmetics
Wet n WIld
W7 Cosmetics