Is your makeup bag cruelty-free?
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The EU prohibited the sale of animal tested cosmetic products and ingredients on 11 March 2013 following its ban on animal tested cosmetics just four years earlier. We explored if these regulations are truly practised in the UK.
Brands marked with a green star are cruelty-free. Our own research.
Walking down the aisles at Boots, you would assume the cosmetics brands you see are vegan and cruelty-free because of this law. Yet upon inspection, we found that the UK has plenty of makeup brands that practice neither.
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Reporter Kloudia Sakowski compares makeup brands and conducts an interview with a Lush employee.
Cruelty-free products are products created without the use of animal testing while vegan products
