The following list consists of all the cruelty-free brands we have vetted as cruelty-free based on our criteria, which can be found below. Its purpose is to help you shop truly cruelty-free no matter which products you need, and no matter what your budget is, anywhere and at any stores. You can use the filter to narrow the list based on your needs or preferences.
This list is for those who wish to avoid brands that test on animals or fund animal testing, and purchase only from the brands that have been vetted as cruelty-free. This means that the brands on our list have confirmed that no animal testing is performed on their finished products or ingredients during production, either by their company, their suppliers, or any third parties.
In order to ensure the brands we support do not put themselves at risk of animal testing, we do not consider brands that sell in China to be cruelty-free even if they use certain loopholes.
For brands that do test on animals, make sure to visit our list of Companies That Test On Animals.
Our Criteria
All the brands found on this list were vetted to be cruelty-free, meaning:
- Finished Products: Their finished products are not tested on animals by the company or any other company.
- Ingredients: Their ingredients are not tested on animals by the company or any other company.
- Suppliers: Their suppliers do not test ingredients, raw materials, or finished products on animals.
- Third Parties: No third party is testing their finished products or ingredients animal on their behalf.
- Required by Law: They don’t test on animals where the law requires it, and are not sold in mainland China.
Using This List
The complete list of cruelty-free brands is displayed below. You can also choose filters to find exactly what you’re looking for by clicking the “Refine” button.
For example, you can look for cruelty-free hair care sold at Ulta, or choose to filter by skincare brands that are Leaping Bunny certified and 100% vegan and ship to your country, and so on. This system makes it easy to find cruelty-free brands that are tailored to you and your needs.
Get Listed
If you’re a cruelty-free brand and you’d like to be listed, please contact us. If your brand fulfills our cruelty-free criteria, we’ll contact you with further information.
Thank yiou for these list. I will try to make sure that I never buy from them again.
With the reference to China, with the new laws now in place can it still be so point blank not cruelty free just for selling there? Reading up on it it seems that the onus is on the brands to get certified themselves and trade still in China while being cruelty free too.
Why isn’t Body Shop on there? They are what I use and they are apparently the biggest anti animal testing people around.
Pls advise.
Thanks
I have a question, as I am new in this cruelty free world and sometimes it can be confusing whether a brand is really cruelty free or not. So is Apivita cruelty free in 2021? I have not found it on the list, but on google I have found it does not test on animals at all.
Hi
Thanks for your great informations.
I wanted to know if “Schon” brand is cuerlty-free or not?
I believe Farmasi (turkish cosmetics/hygiene/body and hair product company) is also a cruelty free brand. Could you please confirm?
Hi guys
Who knows any information about LUMENE brand ? Made in Finland
Must be cruelty free but could find in the list in here
You can’t do this stop animal testing!!!!
This is NOT okay and it needs to end. Animals still feel things too, they are not just your puppets!
We should stop doing this
hopefully the world will be a better olace for the animals since we are only borrowing it from them and they had live here ling mer than us <33
SBC (Simply Beautiful Cosmetics), Soul Skin Vegan Beauty, and Hayo’u products are cruelty free.
Hi. Soul Skin vegan beauty is cruelty free, so is Simply Beautiful Cosmetics (SBC), and Hayo’u products.
The list is great. However many of these brands sell in China where by law anything sold their must be first tested on animals.
Even though we may purchase cruelty free of the same brand in our countries. Surely it’s about the entire efficacy of the brand. Those that don’t sell into China deserve their own section. It’s not so cut & dry I believe.
Hi, could you do a post about some of the dollar tree cosmetic brands such as L.A Colors, sassy + chic, and stuff like that. thanks!
Is Limelife by Alcone on your list?
I wish companies owned by parent companies weren’t included. I understood the logic years ago… hoping that these huge companies would see how well they could do with cruelty free companies, and hope that they followed suit. However, I think it’s just become another market for them the same way a hair coloring brand has several colors to meet several markets. They aren’t going to stop making “auburn” just because “chestnut” is doing well. They see that there is a market in both areas. So it’s more like… “hey, we can make great money selling burts bees, and it costs a little more to make, but we will charge more.” Likewise “We also need more affordable brands and many people don’t care what we test on, so we will still make those products to serve that client base.” Win for them with no compromise.
I don’t think these big companies are stupid. They see that they can split the difference and they know there is some endorsement for them from sites like this one, leaping bunny, and peta… despite the fact that most of their money comes from abusing animals. I find this so hypocritical and I just can’t understand the justification for it as it clearly isn’t changing their minds about animal testing.
Hi… Just wondering about JR Watkins. I notice on the leaping bunny site that they have a notation next to the brand that indicates they are owned by a parent company that tests on animals. However, your site says they aren’t. So I’m not sure which is true? I’ve tried looking it up and came up with some jacob company, but nothing really on them. Any information on this?
There’s some nail polish brands that claim to be vegan and/or cruelty free.
They are BELLE EN ARGENT and COLOR CLUB. You might want to check them out?
This is such a great list. There is so much confusion out there and this makes it much easier to know where to shop. I was wondering if anyone had any recommendations for cruelty-free skincare that doesn’t use oils in their creams. I struggle with skincare because when I use oil on my skin or creams with oils, I develop oil packets that then have to be removed (a bit painful). Most cruelty-free companies use oil in their creams, which I can’t use. So, I end up not using any moisturizer and it shows. 🙁 Any recommendations would be very welcome.
Hello Suzanna
I would like to know if Skinn cosmetics and Beakman 1802 are cruety free?
they are both sold on Home Shopping Network
Hi Suzanne, thanks for reaching out! Please use this form to suggest these brands: https://crueltyfreekitty.typeform.com/to/wL0417WK
Thank you so much for all of your work on this list – and it must have been an incredible amount of work to compile. It is an excellent resource and we are very grateful for you putting in the time, research hours and money to maintain the website so that we don’t have to.
Keep up the great work! The animals and we humans thank you.
Nat
Thank you Nat, much love to you!
I really appreciate all the research that goes into this. I want to know this stuff, but wouldn’t do all the research to find out. Thanks! Also, could you find out if the brand Golden Rose is cruelty free?
Megan
Are any Scentsy products tested on animals or their ingredients pls as they not on this.list
Is Bodycology or Body fantasy cruelty free as in they don’t sell to China?
Why is IT cosmetics on your list when IT cosmetics is owned by Loreal? Loreal isn’t cruelty free.
What does it mean to have a blank at the end of the line
Thank you for creating and updating Cruelty-Free Kitty!
1. Is it possible to regain cruelty-free status after testing the products on animals (for example in China)?
2. If China stops animal testing, will some brands who are now selling in China become cruelty free?
3. If a brand has history with animal testing, will it stay on Cruelty-Free Kitty web site even if a brand regains cruelty free status?
Thanks!
Hi Jume!
1. Yes. Examples include Smashbox, Omorovicza, and Boscia.
2 & 3. Still to be determined! I want to do what makes the most sense, and brands would most likely fall under different categories (i.e. those that tested on animals in China vs those that were always cruelty-free).
Great list of shops! It’s a pity you can buy only online, but it’s better to have a choice. Thank you for sharing!
Abel Odor perfumes mention that they are cruelty free. Are they included in your list?
Hola!, soy de chile, tengo una duda con respecto a belcorp (ésika, L’BEL y cyzone), soy consultora y no estoy segura si testean o no en animales, no tienen una certificación, solamente agregan en sus catálogos (algunos productos) que no testaen en animales.
Saludos!, gracias por la información ????.