This week's The Ordinary Vegan is a chain of shops rather than one product. This week I am choosing to highlight Superdrug. Since becoming vegan, it has been harder for me to find cosmetics, skincare and toiletries than food. There are specialist stores and organic online products available but many are expensive and you have to do your research. A few weeks ago, I went into Superdrug and saw this notice:
This got me thinking about whether many of their products were vegan as well as not tested on animals. Well, it turns out that not just do they have many vegan products, but they label them as vegan too.
So I needed a few toiletries this week and popped back in, it's really easy as all of their own brand products which are vegan say so on the packaging and all of their own brand products are not tested on animals and are BUAV approved. I bought some hand wash, shaving gel, skincare oil, moisturiser and foot spray. All vegan, all not tested on animals and no animal ingredients.
I also browsed around the shop and found they had vegan shampoo and conditioner, cleansers, toners, body creams, baby powder and baby wash, and much more. As Superdrug has branches in most high streets and towns, as well as shopping centres and an online store, I think they more than qualify for The Ordinary Vegan this week. They also sell vegan Original Source products which I featured here. It would be great if one day all of their products were vegan as I don't believe any beauty products need animal ingredients, by-products or animal testing but they have made a positive start and if we vegans go and buy these products they will only make more, which can only be a positive step in the right direction.
Come back later this week for a yummy Vegan Recipe of the Week and a Vegan Vox Reviews...
Big Vegan Love,
VVx
Great research, thanks :) I've known about the no animal testing thing for their own products for many years, but didn't realise so much was actually vegan too.
ReplyDeleteThanks, I know it is so handy too as there are branches in most towns. Hopefully other shops will take note and follow soon! VVx
DeleteI was looking for a place which i could get all my toiletries from and reading your article i am defiantly going to Superdrug thanks for all your info xx
ReplyDeleteI was looking for a company to get my toiletries from as i am horrified with all these companies and the ingredients which they put in. So thanks for your article it was most helpful
ReplyDeleteHi Lisa, I'm glad you found the article helpful, it's great to know big companies are starting to think about cruelty-free products and making them available to all. VVx
DeleteWow! I am an aspiring vegan and have been struggling to find affordable cosmetics. I can't believe they have been right under my nose. Thanks so much for this! I will go tomorrow with a big back pack 😃
ReplyDeleteSuperdrug is still a great shop for vegans, maybe even better today than it was 2 years since you posted this great headsup. So good to see that they are selling enough to continue their own brand line. Thanks.
ReplyDeleteWe love Superdrug's own brand toiletries and cosmetics, they are fab..... and involve NO cruelty to Animals, which is great! ( Power to their elbow! )
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