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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| Peanut Bunny |
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| Wispa Bunny |
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| Snowdrop Bunny |
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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