Cruelty-Free

Cosmetic animal testing is something I wholeheartedly disagree with, on any level. This is just my personal opinion, not intended to be inflammatory in any way, but while I can just about justify medicinal animal testing for the sake of saving lives and improving quality of life, in my mind, cosmetics are completely unnecessary and I absolutely cannot justify any form of testing on animals for cosmetic purposes. People can argue away that it’s for safety reasons but personally, I don’t think that safety for an unnecessary item is remotely justifiable when it comes to using animals bodies for our own vanity.

Now, I am also somewhat of a hypocrite because I do knowingly buy nail polish from companies that I cannot be sure are truly cruelty-free. But, there are certain brands that I refuse to buy from, such as L’Oreal or Maybelline. I won’t go into details why, as this tends to cause argument in my experience, but from all the information I have read regarding these companies I have formed my own opinions and choose to stick by them. I never ever buy other makeup such as mascara, eyeshadow, eyeliner etc. from any company which is not BUAV Approved, again for my own reasons, and I will more than willingly give up a few extra pounds to support a cruelty-free company.

Here is my list of trusted cosmetics companies for nails:

• Beauty Without Cruelty
• Barry M
• Burt’s Bees
• Color Club
• GOSH
• Nubar
• Marks & Spencer
• SpaRitual
• Superdrug (own brand products)
• B.
• Co-op (own brand products)
• Hard Candy

• BM Beauty
• Make-up International
• Badger
• Neal’s Yard Remedies
• Bull Dog
• Arbonne
• Samina Pure Make-up
• Lip-Ink International
• Gabriel Cosmetics
• Afterglow Cosmetics
• Earth’s Beauty
• Pure Nuff Stuff
• Pure Anada