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Soap and Glory is a UK based beauty company with products in the Bath & Body, Makeup, Skin Care, Hair, and Gift categories. In this article we look to answer two questions: 1. Is Soap and Glory vegan? and 2. Is Soap and Glory cruelty-free?
Vegan vs Cruelty-Free
While “vegan” and “cruelty-free” are often used interchangeability by beauty brands and consumers, they actually mean two different things. With all lifestyle brand and product analyses we produce at Veg Knowledge, we use the same definitions for vegan and cruelty-free. These definitions are:
“Vegan” products are those that contain no animal-derived ingredients.
“Cruelty-Free” products are those that no animal testing occurs on the product or any of its ingredients.
Therefore, it is possible that a product could be “vegan” but not “cruelty-free” if the product contains no animal-based ingredients, but it is tested on animals due to a certain country’s regulations.
We choose to use these definitions in our analyses because they are often the definitions used by those in the beauty industry. In our option, it is hard to justify that a product is cruelty-free if it includes animal-based products, but this is how the beauty industry labels their products. If you’d like a full breakdown on this topic, check out the Ethical Elephant’s article.
Is Soap and Glory Vegan?
According to Soap and Glory’s FAQ page, some of their products “contain no animal derived ingredients.” Even though the question being answered is “Are your products suitable for vegetarians?”, the fact that they do not contain any animal derived ingredients means that they are both vegetarian and vegan friendly. A full list of Soap and Glory’s vegan and vegetarian products are listed in the following section.
Therefore, some (but not all) of the Soap and Glory products are vegan as they contain no animal-derived ingredients.
Soap and Glory's Vegan Products
- Archery
- Archery 2-in-1 Brow Filling Pencil & Brush
- Bright Here, Bright Now
- Butter Yourself Smoothing Body Cream
- Calm One, Calm All
- Catch a Wrinkle in Time
- Clean On Me
- Clean On Me
- Clean, Girls
- Clear Here
- Clear Here Wipes
- Daily Double
- Daily Smooth
- Easy Glistening
- Eau de Soap & Glory
- EDT- Pink
- Endless Glove
- Fab Pore Hot Cloth Cleanser
- Face Soap & Clarity
- Feel Good Factor SPF
- Flakeaway
- Foam Call
- For Daily Youth
- Girligo
- Glad Hair Day Conditioner
- Glad Hair Day Shampoo
- Glad Hair Day Thick Conditioner
- Glad Pits
- Glam- A- Lot
- Glow All Out Cheek Stick
- Glow Job Daily Radiance Moisture Lotion
- Glow Lotion
- Hand Food
- Hand Maid
- Heel Genius
- Hocus Focus Lotion
- Kick Ass Concealer
- Love At First Blush
- Make Yourself Youthful eye cream
- Mini Shampoo
- Mist You Madly Spray
- One Heck Of A Blot Foundation
- Peaches & Clean
- Scrub Actually
- Scrub ’em and leave ’em
- Scrub Your Nose In It
- Sexy Mother Pucker Gloss Stick Fuchsia Ristic
- Sexy Mother Pucker Gloss Stick Nudist
- Show Good Face
- Sit Tight
- Slim Wear
- Smoothie Star Body Lotion
- SMP Clear
- SMP Half Naked
- SMP Lipstick Rosy Chic
- SMP Lipstick Super Nude
- SMP Pink Apricot
- SMP Rose & Shine
- SMP XL Extreme Plump – All Shades
- SMP Yummy Plum
- Speed Plump – Day & Night
- Sugar Crush Body Butter
- Sugar Crush Body Lotion
- Sugar Crush Body Wash
- Sugar Crush Body Scrub
- Supercat
- Supereyes, Supereyes
- The Fab Pore 15 Minute Facial Peel
- The Fab Pore Moisture Lotion
- The Firminator – For Arms
- The Greatest Scrub of All
- The Righteous Butter
- The Righteous Butter Diamond Edition
- The Righteous Butter Lotion
- The Scrub Of Your Life
- Thick & Fast
- Thick & Fast HD
- Trick and Treatment
- Whipped Clean
- Wish Upon A Jar
Is Soap and Glory Cruelty-Free?
In the FAQ section on Soap and Glory’s website, they have a question directly addressing animal testing. This question and answer are copied below.
DO YOU TEST ON ANIMALS?
We understand that animal testing is a key concern for a growing number of consumers and at Soap & Glory, we can confidently state that all of our formulations are safety and efficacy tested on people. (Although you might argue about that if you’d seen the condition of some of their feet. YEEEESH.)
At Soap & Glory, we uphold very strict guidelines through our regularly audited manufacturing partners that uphold the ‘no animal testing’ policy. As well, we are fortunate that our biggest retail partner – Boots The Chemists- upholds the very same standards by funding through an organisation called FRAME, which is the FUND for the REPLACEMENT of ANIMALS in MEDICAL EXPERIMENTS) in an effort to eliminate reliance in the industry on animal testing That said – and because we feel it necessary to be transparent and to educate EVERYBODY – it’s important for you to know that no retailer or manufacturer can categorically state that ‘none’ of their raw materials or ingredients have – at some time in the past- been tested on animals. The majority of individual raw materials used in cosmetics today have been through some kind of animal testing process.
At Soap & Glory, we absolutely do not test our formulations on animals, however we can’t say that each and every ingredient that goes into them has not, at some point historically, been cleared for human use, by animal testing. We hope this answers your question. If you need any more information about animal testing, we’d suggest you contact Colipa, the European Cosmetics Directive association, via www.colipa.eu.
In this statement, Soap and Glory claims that they “absolutely do not test (their) formulations on animals, however (they) can’t say that every ingredient that goes into them has not.” Therefore, it is unclear weather or not Soap and Glory sources ingredients from companies which test their ingredients on animals. Additionally, Soap and Glory is not certified cruelty-free by Peta or Leaping Bunny leading to further confusion.
Taking into account their statements and the fact they are working with Boots.com which is a cruelty-free retailer, we believe that Soap and Glory is doing its best to be a cruelty-free brand.
Summary
At the time of this writing, some of the Soap and Glory products are vegan-friendly and all are cruelty-free. Have you tried any of Soap and Glory’s vegan and cruelty-free products? Let us know your thoughts in the comments below!
You can read our other vegan and cruelty-free lifestyle analyses here.
