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Non-animal Testing Companies and Products

The following list of companies contains just a few examples of those who do just that for personal care and/or cleaning products.

They all operate a ‘fixed cut-off date’ (FCOD) policy for animal testing. This means that they do not conduct any animal tests at all, and have a policy of not using any ingredients tested on animals from a fixed date. The FCOD is widely accepted by anti-vivisection organisations across the world as the gold standard. Some companies operate the so-called ‘five-year rolling rule’ policy. This is not ethical because, over time, it does not actually do anything to stop animal testing.

These company’s products can most easily be found in whole-food and ‘alternative’ shops, but increasingly in some supermarkets:

NON-ANIMAL TESTING COMPANIES
	Avalon Natural Products		Kingfisher
	Barry M Cosmetics		Liz Earle
	Beauty Without Cruelty		Meadowsweet
	Bio-D		Neal’s Yard Remedies
	Daniel Field		Urtekram
	Faith In Nature		Weleda
	Green People		Woods of Windsor
	Honesty Cosmetics		Yaoh
	Jason Natural Cosmetics
For alternative pet food companies please see our pet food information sheet.

Many of these products can be obtained on-line. Click here for links to on-line cruelty-free retailers.

Shops and Supermarkets

The following shops and supermarkets operate a good fixed cut-off date for many or all of their own brand products:

OUTLET		COMMENTS
	Lush	Lush are the only exception here, they do not operate a FCOD, but they only purchase ingredients from suppliers who have no connection to animal testing
	Aldi	own brand toiletries only
	Co-op	all own brand products, except some laundry products
	John Lewis	own brand toiletries only
	Holland & Barrett	own brands
	Kwiksave	all own brands
	Marks & Spencer	own brand make-up/toiletries and household products
	Netto	all own brands
	New Look	own brand make-up/toiletries
	Next	own brand make-up/toiletries
	Nisa Todays	all own brands except laundry products
	Sainsbury’s	own brand toiletries only
	Somerfield	all own brand products
	Waitrose	own brand toiletries only
Please check individual products to avoid animal derived ingredients.

The ‘Bad’ List

The following companies either openly use animal-tested chemicals, or fail to demonstrate that the finished product and the ingredients they use have not been tested on animals since a fixed cut-off date.

COMPANIES TO BOYCOTT
Avon Cosmetics	Jeyes
Beiersdorf	Johnson & Johnson
The Body Shop/L’Oreal+	Lancome
Chanel	Lever Fabergé
Christion Dior	L’Oreal/Nestlé
Clinique	Miners Cosmetics
Colgate Palmolive	PZ Cussons
Coty	Reckitt Benckiser
Ecover*	Revlon
Estée Lauder	SC Johnson
FCUK	Virgin Vie
Garnier	Yardley
Givenchy	Yves Rocher
GlaxoSmithKline	Yves Saint Laurent
Helena Rubenstein	Unilever

+ The Body Shop are now owned by L’Oreal/Nestlé.
* Ecover do not have a FCOD, they follow the ‘5 year rolling rule’, which is why they feature on the ‘bad’ list.

Please read our FAQs for an explanation as to why we do not recommend the above companies and to answer other queries.