{AD-Gifted: The Pixi Beauty items in this photo were gifted to me}

Hello beautiful people!! I thought I'd create a new post, similar to my cruelty-free guide for make-up brands, but this time specifically for skin care brands! 

It's so important to take care of our skin - I don't know about you, but I have both an AM and PM regime to make sure I'm doing everything I can to  ACE my BASE ;)

So, to refresh your memory, here is how each category works to separate each brand:

• Do not test any of their products or ingredients on animals,
• Do not sell their products in Mainland China (where it is required by law that products are tested on animals before they can be sold), and
• Are not owned by a non-cruelty-free parent company

• Do not test any of their products or ingredients on animals,
• Do not sell their products in Mainland China (where it is required by law that products are tested on animals before they can be sold),
• But are owned by a non-cruelty-free parent company (for example, The Body Shop, which is renowned for fighting against animal cruelty, is owned by L'Oreal who, sadly folks, do test on animals...)

• Test their products and/or ingredients on animals, and/or
• Sell their products in mainland China

SO, here are some of the most well-known skincare brands that I know of, separated into the relevant category to their animal-testing activity:


Category 1. 100% Cruelty-Free:

- By Terry
- Deciem (Parent company of NIOD and The Ordinary)
- Drunk Elephant
- Emma Hardie 
- Fourth Ray (Owned by ColourPop founders)
- Glow Recipe
- Herbivore
- Isle of Paradise (also VEGAN!)
- Mario Badescu
- Milk
- Ole Henriksen
- Omorovicza (pulled out of the Chinese market to regain their cruelty-free status - go Omorovicza!!)
- Pixi Beauty
- Revolution Skincare
- Summer Fridays
- Sunday Riley
- Tatcha


Category 2. Mostly Cruelty-Free:

- The Body Shop (owned by L'Oreal)
- Elemis (owned by Steiner Leisure)
- Kate Somerville (owned by Unilever)
- REN (owned by Unilever)


Category 3. Not considered to be Cruelty-Free:

- Boscia
- Caudalie
- Clarins
- Clearasil
- Fresh
- GlamGlow
- Dior
- Kiehl's
- La Mer
- Lancome
- Laneige
- Origins


..... If there are any brands that you would like to find out about that are not listed here, please feel free to reach out and let me know - I'm sure there are many that I have missed. I'll happily do the research and add them to this list! 

In the meantime, enjoy your radiant skin!!


** Disclaimer **

I am neither a skincare expert, nor a brand-policy-expert, and I have not independently reached out to each brand listed here, to find out this information. The above information is based on research that I have conducted myself, over a period of time, including using websites such as www.crueltyfreekitty.com whom are specifically focused on finding out, from the brands directly, what their animal testing policies are, as well as brands' own publicly available information. I am purely collating this research and translating it into my own blog post.