Cruelty free alternatives

[Flinkyflonk]

I'm looking for some suggestions for alternatives to my 2 favourite products.

I have recently decided - considering I was a huge supporter/Local campaigner of animals rights in my yoof (think, jumping out of vans sabotaging fox hunts, going to greenpeace rallies & fundraisers, and showing horrific posters depicting animal testing to all my friends at every given opportunity) - that I need to go cruelty free with my beauty products.

I've therefore started replacing my normal collection with cruelty free brands, Too Faced replacing Clinique, and some Body Shop (although I recently found out its owned by L'Oreal - Anita Roddick must be turning in her grave), Tesco and Superdrug for other products.

Problem is, I don't like much of what I've bought!

My 2 all time favourite Clinique products were moisture surge (the pink gel-like stuff) and moisture surge CC cream. I've never been into heavy foundation at all.
When I went to the Too Faced counter, they recommended their Born This Way foundation and said it was very similar - it's nothing like it! The guy did a small check on one side of my face and it seemed ok at the time (and I stupidly bought one instead of asking for a sample) but it's just too heavy.

And I bought The Body Shop Vitamin E aqua boost sorbet but it's nothing like moisture surge, and leaves a residue which you notice a lot if you have to apply make up afterwards.

Can anyone recommend anything else?

Thanks in advance!

Korres is cruelty free. I like their CC cream. I don't like make up generally as I find it makes me itch, but this is perfectly comfortable with light coverage. It makes me look like a better rested version of me.

@feawen, Korres is paraben free across the whole range. I didn't get on with their haircare (I have very long, curly, dry and challenging hair that doesn't get on with much) but their make up, skin care and body care is awesome. :)

This is my consult list.
My favorites are rouge bunny rouge, hourglass, tarte.

www.leapingbunny.org/guide/brands

Eve Lom for creams

Neal’s Yard have excellent cruelty free credentials and their highest performing face product is their frankincense Intense range which includes serums.
They have been rigorously tested on humans and have rave reviews. Everyone I know who uses it swears by it.
It costs a bit more than some mid range brands but their research and quality of ingredients is second to none and their eco stance is admirable.

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I’m another to suggest Superdrug’s own brands for skin care, it’s brilliant. They have 3 or 4 ranges and they’re all great and so cheap. I also love The Ordinary, Lush, Sukin and Neal’s Yard.
Make up wise I’m mostly Charlotte Tilbury, Hourglass, NYX, GOSH and Too Faced.

The blogs Logical Harmony and Cruelty Free Kitty are your saviours - great, well researched lists.

I personally don’t have a problem supporting cruelty-free companies owned by parent companies who test. Supporting those companies shows a market desire for cruelty free products and encourages that market to grow, making a business care to the parent brand to cruelty free. I don’t see it as any different to buying soya milk or vegan cake from Tesco, who also sell meat. The greater demand for more veggie/vegan products had lead to lots more products being created and sold by Tesco, the last few years have seen amazing growth in the veggie/vegan products available and it’s because previous products were supported. It’s all business after all.

I use Smashbox for foundation and other bits (they're owned by Estee Lauder but I do subscribe to Paperdoll's thought process above re parent companies and desire for cruelty free).

Nearly everything else I use makeup wise is Kiko who don't test and don't sell in China. Agree re Superdrug own brand too, brilliant.

Thanks everyone, I'm in the process of checking all these out.

Very impressed with Lily Lola so far I have to say. I ordered my samples and an eye brow pencil at 10.45am on Wednesday and they arrived in the post at 9.30am yesterday.

I used the night cream last night and my skin still looked great when I woke up.
Then I used the day cream and light BB cream this morning, and I like it.

The BB cream is lovely and light. I used a little bit to start with then added a little bit more to get the desired look/coverage. The test is how well it lasts throughout the day.

I used to apply Clinique's moisture surge half way through the day, as it was fabulous for freshening up your face and giving you a fresh, healthy glow. It was also great on a night out. I've never found anything like it to be honest. However, I am committed to ditching the baddies so will continue on my search.

I'm trying to find companies which send samples though, as I don't think there are many (any!) stockists of some of the suggested companies round my way.

M&S are cruelty-free and their skincare products are surprisingly very, very good. I have always used high-end skincare and M&S is as good as anything I've paid $$$ for.

Thank you @waytroze for recommending Korres - I will check out their skin care.

Very glad to hear that Lily Lolo is living up to my praise so far @Flinkyflonk ! I must try a sample of the bb cream.

This does drive me a bit crazy because L'Oreal actually lead the pack in persuading the Chinese government to stop with the animal testing. They have developed a fake skin which China has accepted as an alternative to animal testing. No other company has done this. I do think there is a lot of BS on the internet and people aren't particularly careful about what sources they use and believe anything.

*Allthecheese
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I do know what you're saying. It's hard to know what's right as everyone has their own agenda. Maybe L'Oreal do genuinely believe in the cause, and in developing alternatives to end animal testing... or maybe they felt they had no choice but to fund research in this area and simply saw it as revenue-generating in the long run, and it was all about money all along.

I'm just trying to do my little bit, but will be doing some more reading to catch up on developments since I was last passionate about this 20 odd years ago

Has anyone seen the hoohaa (I've always wanted to use that word ) that Sia caused on Instagram today? She basically said that MAC do not test on animals and within a few minutes a thousand people told her she was talking shit.

It just goes to show how ignorant people are. She has collaborated with MAC on a Viva Glam campaign and had no idea that their products were tested on animals. #dumbfuck.

Jeezo Khali

You'd think someone as high profile as Sia would do her research (or have someone do it for her ) before publicly embarrassing herself.

I heard Alexandra Burke went out in fur recently... after featuring in an anti-fur campaign not that long ago!

Who is Sia?

OK, OK, I'm off to google.

Right, still no wiser.

Sia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sia_(musician)
Her IG post: www.instagram.com/p/BcJk3AuDZK7/?taken-by=siamusic

I have a 20yr old DD, I'm pure down with the youth, obvs

L'Oreal are probably motivated by the fact they lose a lot of business by not being able to launch some brands in China in order to keep them cruelty free in the rest of the world.

They also know they are completely boycotted by people on all their brands due to the selling in China issue.

Plus no doubt there are Chinese people who also want the law changed.

So the whole thing is losing them a lot of money. It's worth them pushing to get the law changed in China from a business point of view.

And having done cruelty free for ages, they may well also feel awful for the bunnies.