We’re always horrified by the statistics that women eat a pound of lipstick a year, or whatever, and it’s certainly impacted our vanity table:
Staring at us from our makeup case are a variety of organic lip balms from Clark’s Botanicals, Boots, Kiehl’s, and Korres, and we’ve almost given up lipstick altogether.
But Urban Decay is taking that concept one step further- while shopping for eye glitter a la Marion Cotillard last week, we noticed they had an entire section called “Vegan Beauty.”
Apparently, many makeups are still made with animal products - anything from lard to cream proteins or honey - that vegans can’t touch.
To resolve that issue, the company has Vegan Friendly labels on all of their appropriate products - which are actually most of them.
We think it’s a great idea and hope other companies follow suit - though perhaps the most “organic” of them all, Burt’s Bees, can never participate, since their wax and honey is indeed made by little animals (and it’s so good!)
PS: The model at right is Thais from Next!
posted by SOF
Mar 07, 2008 2:42PM
its so gross finding out some of the ingredients used in our make up... as a side job... i proudly sell 100% certified vegan make up/skin care/ nutrition... you can find our stuff at www.arbonne.com let me know if you would like free samples! going greeeen too.