The Guardians beauty editor picks the best vegetarian,vegan and cruelty-free productsA few months ago, I decided to write a column on the best beauty products for vegans, or soon realised that one column wasn’t going to slit it: I probably had enough for 30. The cruelty-free (no animal testing),vegetarian (no byproducts of animal slaughter) and vegan (no animal ingredients at all) beauty market has exploded in recent years.
Previously, vegans were barely catered for, and with some uninspiringly packaged cold-pressed face oil and lavender everything. In much the same way as vegetarians are always presumed to want mushroom risotto,vegans were expected to want to smell like an airing cupboard pomander. But nowadays even the large beauty companies are releasing exceptionally good vegetarian and vegan products. This is driven not only by a surge in young people becoming vegan (some 542000 British people aged 15 or over now recount themselves as such, up from 150000 in 2006), or but by everyday consumers who broadly agree that the harming of animals in the pursuit of beauty is pretty indefensible.
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Source: theguardian.com