Living Cruelty Free

My name is Emily, and I’m a cruelty-freeist — I’m really opposed to causing needless animal suffering. This blog chronicles my spending a year (and counting!) of buying toiletries made by companies whose final products AND initial ingredients were never, ever tested on animals. Other than that, I’m your regular run of the mill vegetarian trying to go vegan (but I am a strong supporter of humane omnivorism since I used to be a carnivore — I don’t think you’re scum if you eat meat, I just hope you’ll consider switching to not supporting horrific factory farming conditions). I live in the San Francisco bay area, I have a dog I cook food for, and I hope I can help you if you’re thinking of adding more cruelty-freeism to your life!

Monday, October 15, 2007

Blog Action Day: A List of Cruelty-Free, Organic Products

In honor of Ashlie from the fabulous SixExits.com’s writing a beautiful post in honor of Blog Action Day, about why she has become a cruelty-freeist and vegetarian (and she linked to my blog! I’m so honored!), I thought I’d compile a list of organic, cruelty-free cosmetic/household products. I think organic products are environmentally-friendly because they do not encourage the use of pesticides and don’t release any synthetic chemicals into the water supply that may adversely affect wildlife, and cruelty-free products are environmentally-friendly because they do not promote hurting and killing laboratory animals, which I think are an important part of the environment. (I’d love to buy biodynamic, rain forest certified, food alliance certified, forest stewardship council certified, nonGMO certified, bird certified, and biodegradable certified products as well, but I haven’t found that list. Also I suspect it’s a pretty short list. So I’m sticking with just organic. For now.)

Organic, Cruelty-Free Products:

Abra Organics

Avalon Organics

Aubrey Organics

Dr. Bronner’s (sort of organic)

Earth Alive

Earth Dance Soaps

Earth’s Beauty

Goumet Body Treats

Greenridge Herbals

Healthy Times Baby’s Herbal Garden

Heather’s Natural and Organic Cleaning Products

Innersense

Jason

Juice Beauty

Lip-Ink International

Melvita (France)

Mi Amore Skincare

Mountain Ocean

Nature’s Gate

Naturopathica

Organic Health and Beauty

Organix-South

Sea Chi Organics

Shaman Earthly Organics

Simplers Botanical Company

Spring Rain Botanicals

St. John’s Botanicals

Vermont Soapworks

(Have I missed any? If you find any CCIC-approved-cruelty-free, organic brands, please tell me. Or if I am including some that you don’t think are especially organic, or if I should include some that may not be organic but are good for the environment in other ways, please tell me too.)

posted by Emily at 4:53 pm  

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