Would you like to buy someone you know some 100%-cruelty-free cosmetics/household products/soaps in festive wrapping?  Have no fear!  A bunch of cruelty-free companies have some lovely gifts available right now:

• Method has some lovely and reasonably priced seasonal gifts — potpourri, candles, aroma sticks, and dish soaps in scents of spiced pear, winter berry, toasted hazelnut, and frosted fir.
• The Body Shop is having a 30% off gifts sale right now — there’s the exotic mango boxed set, the creamy coconut boxed set, etc.
• Lush has a bunch of stocking stuffers — from a chocolate santa bath bomb to “gold, frankincense and beer shower jelly” — and a bunch of droolworthy boxed sets — including one called a Secret Santa boxed set ($10) that looks like it would be VERY useful for that person you don’t know very well yet want to buy a gift for.  (I may be be picking up one of these secret santa sets soon.)
• Juice Beauty has an eco-chic holiday gift bag.
• L’Occitane has a TON of boxed sets and stocking stuffers– and it has a gift search function so you can use what you know about someone to find them a gift, free shipping on orders over $25, and free gift wrapping service!  It also sells gift cards that work online and in store.
• MyLipStuff has over 100 new holiday flavored limited edition lip balms.
• Pangea Organics has some gift sets in eco-friendly boxes that grow fir trees.
• Paul Mitchell has a bunch of gift sets that donate part of the profits to FoodAfrica.
• WhiteRabbitBeauty.com is having a holiday makeup sale.
• The Cruelty Free Shop in Australia has Christmas gift hampers.

You can also send holiday ecards from various organizations that support alternatives to animal testing — Physician Committee for Responsible Medicine, PETA, and the American Humane Association.  The Humane Society of the United States is offering a collectible gift ornament if you donate $50.

And remember, if you’re going to donate to charity, here is a list of ones that do not support animal testing.  And I suspect the Physician Committee for Responsible Medicine, PETA, the American Humane Association, and the Humane Society of the United States would love to be donated to as well

Update: Compassion over Killing has some holiday cards, and the Glamorous Grad Student has a list of recommended Lush stocking stuffers.

Update II: AAVS has some lovely holiday ecards as well!

Categories : cruelty free, holiday