I read something about how important it is to have a digest for a blog, so I thought I’d do a quick wrap-up of all the stuff I wrote about this month:

I wrote a number of cruelty-free product reviews:

• Method creamy hand soap
• Method foaming hand wash
• Dermalogica samples of the Ultracalming Cleanser and the the Essential Cleansing Solution
• Dermalogica Skin Prep Scrub
• Dermalogica Dermal Clay Cleanser

A few reviews of cruelty-free stores:

• White Rabbit Beauty
• The Cruelty-Free Shop (Australia)

Some lists of cruelty-free products:

• A list of European companies that don’t test on animals compiled from organizations in European countries that follow the humane cosmetics standard
• A list of organic, cruelty-free companies in honor of Blog Action Day (and Ashlie!)

A number of posts on alternatives-to-animal-testing methods:

• The benefits of using non-animal tests
• A brief biography of ECVAM, an organization that validates alternative testing methods for the European Union
• The equivalents to human skin (that can be substituted for live animals) that MatTek Corporation and SkinEthic Laboratories produce
• The non-animal-using tests that the Institute for In Vitro Sciences and In Vitro International perform
• Dr. Bjorn Ekwall’s invention of an alternative to the inhumane LD50 test
• Corrositex — the alternative to the Draize test.

A few posts about cruelty-free farming:

• The rising popularity of cruelty-free eggs
• The new California anti-farm-animal-cruelty ballot initiative

A poll of what the most popular cruelty-free brands are (if you haven’t voted, please do!)

And last but not least, I put up a lovely new photograph in the sidebar.

I was thinking of writing about how I should write up any “sins” I’ve made against buying cruelty-free products, the way Envirowoman does on her blog about living plastic-free, which I think is fun to read, but I haven’t actually bought anything cruel in a long time. I’ve been tempted, yes — I was at the MAC store the other day with a friend of mine, and there was this really lovely shade of lip gloss, but I decided I really shouldn’t support an Estee Lauder owned company, and walked away from it. It’s not like there aren’t tons of cruelty-free lip gloss producing companies out there I should buy from instead — there’s Urban Decay, Hard Candy, Gabriel, Zuzu Luxe, Earth’s Beauty, Gourmet Body Treats, and Face Atelier. To name a few . . .

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