I’ve been receiving a lot of email lately from people saying how they’re sure that all the products I write about are wonderful, but they can’t obtain any of them where they live. And I’m kind of at a loss to help them — I really don’t know what cruelty-free products are easy to find in every health food store across the U.S., let alone outside of it. So I was wondering if any of you savvy cruelty-freeists could help me out? If you regularly buy products that are CCIC-approved, GoCrueltyFree-approved, ChooseCrueltyFree.org.au-approved, ECEAE-approved, One Voice-approved, Vier Pfoten-approved, Animalia-approved or on any of my lists, could you please, please, please comment here about them? Just write in your (chosen) name, the state/country you live in, and a list of CCIC-approved products you normally buy in stores near you, and, if possible, the name of those stores. (As long as the companies subscribe to the Humane Cosmetics Standard, I’m fine with promoting them. If the companies do not subscribe to the Humane Cosmetics Standard, I am NOT fine with them, and I will delete your comment. Please make sure they are on one of those lists.)
For example, say you live across the globe from me (or just a few thousand miles away from me in a different state) and can’t find Method products anywhere (is this possible? Has Target not taken over the world?) — but you can always find Seventh Generation products at health food stores in your neighborhood, mention it here! (If you know of any CCIC-approved products that are sold at local chain stores, that would be a huge, huge bonus! Please mention that those stores are chain stores.)
I have had numerous requests from Canada — so if there are any Canadian CCIC-approved cruelty-free brands you could recommend, those would be especially appreciated. (If you don’t live in Canada, but would like to know what cruelty-free options are available to you, please feel free to leave a comment giving your locale and requesting help from other kind cruelty-freeists . . . )
Eventually I’m hoping to make up a sort of map with information on where to buy cruelty-free products anywhere in the world. Wouldn’t that be cool? Though sadly, I fear that is far beyond my website-designing skills . . .
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Emily
May 27th, 2008 at 12:20 am
I guess I should start this out:
I live in the San Francisco Bay Area. These are products I can find in local stores:
Alba Botanica (Whole Foods)
Aubrey Organics (Whole Foods)
Badger Balm (health food stores)
Beauty Without Cruelty (Whole Foods)
The Body Shop (The Body Shop)
Burt’s Bees (Long’s)
Dermalogica (Pure Beauty)
Dr. Bronner’s Magic Soaps (Whole Foods)
Eco-Dent (health food stores)
EO Products/Small World Trading Company (Whole Foods)
Freeman Cosmetics (Longs)
French Transit (Whole Foods)
Gabriel Cosmetics (health food stores)
Glad Rags (Whole Foods)
Hoke2 (Whole Foods)
Jason Natural Cosmetics (Whole Foods)
Juice Beauty (health food stores)
Kiss My Face (health food stores)
L’Occitane (L’Occitane stores)
Mary Kay (Mary Kay representatives)
Method Products (Target)
Nature’s Gate (Whole Foods)
Osea International (health food stores)
Paul Mitchell (many salons and beauty stores)
Parissa (Whole Foods)
Queen Helene (Walgreens)
Seventh Generation (health food stores)
ShiKai (health food stores)
Tom’s of Maine (Longs)
Too Faced Cosmetics (Sephora)
Un-Petroleum Lip Care (Whole Foods)
Urban Decay (Sephora)
ZuZu Luxe (health food stores)
Natasha
May 27th, 2008 at 6:40 am
I live in Winnipeg, Canada sadly
Here’s what I can only find so far
Burt Bees (Shoppers ,London Drugs, Pharma Plus)
Method ( Safeway, Superstore, London Drugs, Shoppers)
Dr Goodpet( Walmart)
Freeman (Walmart, london Drugs)
The Body Shop
Alba Botanica( London Drugs)
Kiss My Face(London Drugs)
Nature’s Gate ( London drugs, Vita Health )
Jason (Sears)
Toms Of Maine( Safeway, Pharma Plus)
Parissa(Shoppers, Superstore, Zellers)
Emily
May 27th, 2008 at 10:30 pm
Thanks SO much for a Canadian list of locally available cruelty-free products! I know a few people who will really appreciate this.
Natasha
May 28th, 2008 at 3:54 am
Your welcome.
Natasha
May 29th, 2008 at 2:49 am
Here’s another one I found recently
Crystal Rock (Shoppers Drug Mart)
Emily
May 29th, 2008 at 11:47 pm
Oh good! Another product for the list . . .
Maria
May 30th, 2008 at 5:48 am
I live in Athens, Greece and the truth is the choice is very, very limited… We have The Body shop and L’occitane stores in most cities. We have a Sephora store in Athens which carries Urban decay and Too faced Cosmetics…
I’m still trying to find the Method products somewhere and I would love it if there was an online seller who delivered in Greece…
Emily
May 31st, 2008 at 1:53 am
Dear Maria,
Thank you so much for the information on cruelty-free products available in Greece! It’s very useful
natali m
June 18th, 2008 at 5:50 am
Here in the Capital Region military bases now carry some cruelty-free brands like Alba Botanica, Avalon, Nature’s Gate, Method and Seventh Generation.
Anyone who has access will find them less expensive than Whole Foods or Trader Joe’s.
Target would be a good second bet, also Shopper’s Club/Warehouse and Vitamin Shoppe, although product choices are limited.
Sephora is a good option for cosmetics.
Kim
July 19th, 2008 at 12:48 pm
In Canada (at least Ontario and BC) you can find Method products at Shoppers Drug Mart stores and (I think) maybe Rexall/Pharma Plus as well. I know I’ve seen them elsewhere too but can’t recall.
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