Additionally, Soap and Glory is not certified cruelty-free by Peta or Leaping Bunny leading to further confusion. If you need any more information about animal testing, we’d suggest you contact Colipa, the European Cosmetics Directive association, via In this statement, Soap and Glory claims that they “absolutely do not test (their) formulations on animals, however (they) can’t say that every ingredient that goes into them has not.” Therefore, it is unclear weather or not Soap and Glory sources ingredients from companies which test their ingredients on animals. The majority of individual raw materials used in cosmetics today have been through some kind of animal testing process.Īt Soap & Glory, we absolutely do not test our formulations on animals, however we can’t say that each and every ingredient that goes into them has not, at some point historically, been cleared for human use, by animal testing. As well, we are fortunate that our biggest retail partner – Boots The Chemists- upholds the very same standards by funding through an organisation called FRAME, which is the FUND for the REPLACEMENT of ANIMALS in MEDICAL EXPERIMENTS) in an effort to eliminate reliance in the industry on animal testing That said – and because we feel it necessary to be transparent and to educate EVERYBODY – it’s important for you to know that no retailer or manufacturer can categorically state that ‘none’ of their raw materials or ingredients have – at some time in the past- been tested on animals. YEEEESH.)Īt Soap & Glory, we uphold very strict guidelines through our regularly audited manufacturing partners that uphold the ‘no animal testing’ policy. (Although you might argue about that if you’d seen the condition of some of their feet. We understand that animal testing is a key concern for a growing number of consumers and at Soap & Glory, we can confidently state that all of our formulations are safety and efficacy tested on people. This question and answer are copied below. In the FAQ section on Soap and Glory’s website, they have a question directly addressing animal testing.
If you’d like a full breakdown on this topic, check out the Ethical Elephant’s article. In our option, it is hard to justify that a product is cruelty-free if it includes animal-based products, but this is how the beauty industry labels their products. We choose to use these definitions in our analyses because they are often the definitions used by those in the beauty industry.
Therefore, it is possible that a product could be “vegan” but not “cruelty-free” if the product contains no animal-based ingredients, but it is tested on animals due to a certain country’s regulations. “Cruelty-Free” products are those that no animal testing occurs on the product or any of its ingredients. “Vegan” products are those that contain no animal-derived ingredients. With all lifestyle brand and product analyses we produce at Veg Knowledge, we use the same definitions for vegan and cruelty-free. While “vegan” and “cruelty-free” are often used interchangeability by beauty brands and consumers, they actually mean two different things.