Frenchie Bee goes Cruelty Free
I'm going to let you in on a not so secret, secret lifestyle change of mine, are you ready?
After recently discovering that animal testing was still happening, I was appalled, outraged and upset. When I found out that major companies and brands of products I used on a daily basis were still testing their products on animals, I felt betrayed by same companies but also rather naïve that I never took time to read the small print or find out any of this information before now.
This means my vanity and cosmetic addiction was making innocent creatures suffer, this whole time without me even realising! I am an animal lover and my family now has 3 rabbits, 2 cats and a tortoise, pets and animals have been part of my life from a very young age,. I even did my secondary school work experience at my local veterinary surgery and returned to help out on the weekends afterwards. I would never want any harm to come to any animal I know. So why, oh why am I buying products that animals having been tortured in order to produce!? It seems a no-brainer to me that my beauty junkie status should be reformed into a Cruelty Free zone.
I have gone through my beauty box and will do a post soon on all the products I will be saying good bye to and not using until the companies and manufacturers products and ingredients are Cruelty Free! I honestly don’t understand how any animal deserves to be cut, blinded, or harmed in any way for vanity purposes!
I’ve also wondered; ‘How do they get away with it?’. Well, these big companies have big brains; often by using clever wording within the small print or by finding loopholes within laws and/or selling their products in countries such as china -where it is required by law to test products and cosmetics on animals- or just simply by ignoring the cruelty free question.
As of now, any cosmetics, I use on myself and/or recommend to others my blog will be cruelty free only. As you know my post-student status of graduate means I will most likely be delving into more of the budget rather than ‘luxury’ items. To my joy a lot of products I was using are cruelty free, and I continue using them today, yay!
I will continue to use products from companies such as The Body Shop, Bare minerals, urban Decay, NYX and many more who have been bought by bigger Parent companies who test on animals. You may be wandering why? Simply because I don’t believe any Cruelty free brand should be boycotted as long as; when they are bought by a testing parent company the original company itself does not change their testing and ethical values and policies. If anything I encourage you to continue to buy cruelty free brands owned by testing parent companies because companies and their buyers choose their products based on consumer patterns (you and I, and the general public), so if consumers change their patterns to demanding the Cruelty Free cosmetics, we can expect to see an increase in the cruelty free options, not only within the original company but the parent company also.
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I’m excited to have already begun my Cruelty Free Cosmetics Journey and cannot wait to take you along the way with me. If you’ve already embarked on this journey let me know, it’ll be interesting to hear other stories. Have you had to give up your favourite product? Which are favourite Cruelty Free brands? Have you changed any other aspect to your life, or is it just cosmetics? Do you buy from Cruelty Free brands with Testing parent companies, or are you against them?
I hope this post will inspire you to go Cruelty Free and/or think twice about the products you buy, and hope you’re look forward to my next post!
All Pictures within Post are my own, taken by myself, of my family Pets, taken on an I Phone 5, links within captions of the pictures lead to my Instagram account.
Feel free to comment and thank you muchly for reading
Frenchie x
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