Opting for vegan skincare promotes animal welfare and environmental sustainability while helping you avoid harmful ingredients. Furthermore, this allows you to find formulations without allergens or contaminants – an invaluable benefit!
Vegan face wash may contain natural surfactants that gently cleanse without stripping, while vegan serum can support firmness and clarity with botanical peptides extracted from seeds or microalgae.
No Animal Products
Vegan skincare offers numerous advantages over its animal product counterparts. Traditional ingredients like beeswax, lanolin and collagen can all be replaced with more sustainable plant-based alternatives that offer just as much efficacy for skin.
Vegan skincare tends to be gentler on sensitive skin types as it does not contain harsh chemicals that absorb into the body and potentially lead to long-term side effects.
Natural ingredients, like jojoba oil, which closely resembles the skin’s own oils and helps moisturize, balance and soothe it are preferred over synthetic ones for these products. Other plant-based ingredients used are turmeric (which brightens and revives dull skin) and licorice root which reduces dark spots and hyperpigmentation – while these natural botanicals also offer essential vitamins for wellbeing.
No Animal Testing
Vegan cosmetics don’t contain ingredients tested on animals, which means their creation doesn’t involve painstaking toxicity tests, skin irritation/development tests or carcinogenicity assessments traditionally carried out on them and often causing great suffering to animals.
Instead, vegan products undergo stringent evaluation by scientists using human volunteers for rigorous testing and evaluation. As a result, these skincare products offer distinct advantages over their non-vegan counterparts as they do not pose risk of irritation to sensitive skin and therefore stand to be healthier choices overall – better for you, animals, the environment, as well as being organic or natural!
No Animal Ingredients
Veganism extends beyond just what’s on your plate; it also applies to your beauty regimen. While many cosmetics and skincare products contain animal-derived ingredients or byproducts such as collagen, lanolin, squalene, keratin or rosehip oil derived from animals for cosmetic or skincare uses, there are plant-based alternatives which offer comparable benefits without harming animals.
Plant-based formulas typically rely on nourishing plant oils and butters, soothing extracts like aloe vera or chamomile, moisture-enhancing humectants such as glycerin or hyaluronic acid and moisture-regulating humectants like glycerin or hyaluronic acid and moisture-retaining humectants like glycerin to hydrate skin while also eliminating common irritants like synthetic fragrance and parabens that aggravate skin inflammation. Look out for vegan products certified by cruelty-free organizations such as Leaping Bunny or PETA Beauty without Bunnies so your routine remains ethical and environmentally conscious; usually, vegan-friendly products will display their respective logo on labels to indicate this fact.
No Animal Byproducts
Vegan skincare regimens avoid animal byproducts to ensure no animals are harmed during production. Some may argue it is acceptable to use products made from animals who will eventually die anyway, however this would be cruel and unnecessary.
Consumers now have access to an abundance of vegan beauty products, from makeup and skin care to fragrances. By opting for vegan beauty products, consumers are helping reduce animal byproducts in our world while decreasing demand for cruelty-tested beauty products.
Glow For A Cause, Balanced Guru and Summer Fridays use only natural, plant-based ingredients in their makeup and skincare products that are 100% vegan and Leaping Bunny certified cruelty-free. Their cruelty-free products feature vitamins, oils and herbs for optimal use.
No Animal Waste
Ethically-sourced vegan skincare eliminates waste from animal products by switching them out for plant-based and synthetic alternatives, thus lowering its environmental impact as well as eliminating potentially hazardous additives such as parabens, phthalates, mineral oil and chemical synthetics from your skin and environment.
Plant-based ingredients tend to be gentler and less likely to cause irritation for sensitive and dry skin types, due to being made from botanical leaves, seeds, roots or oils that contain nutrients beneficial to skin health.
Vegan beauty brands take pride in providing transparency regarding ingredients and sourcing to enable consumers to make decisions that align with their values. This practice promotes social responsibility and ethical labour standards in producing vegan skincare. They also use eco-conscious packaging which reduces landfill.
