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I’ve been getting lots of questions about Avon’s cruelty-free status so I thought I’d provide an update and address the question, is Avon cruelty-free in 2021?
Avon is working to become cruelty-free but they’re not there yet.
Avon is still selling their products in China. Although they claim to have stopped testing their ingredients on animals in China, they were unable to clarify exactly how or what they’re doing to be exempt from China’s animal testing requirements.
They also haven’t verified with all of their ingredient suppliers that they are all cruelty-free too.
Therefore, Avon is on our ‘Grey Area Brand List – Brands with Unclear Policies.’
Note that Avon Products and New Avon are two separate companies. In this post, I’ll only be looking into Avon Products’ cruelty-free claims and statements.
Avon & PETA
There’s been some confusion about PETA and Avon’s partnership. As of May 2021, Avon is still NOT officially certified cruelty-free by PETA. When you type ‘Avon’ in PETA’s directory, it says that Avon is “working towards regulatory changes to reduce the number of animals used for testing.”
This does NOT mean Avon is cruelty-free. It just means PETA acknowledges that Avon is working on it.
PETA reports, “Avon Products, Inc., is no longer testing on animals anywhere in the world and is putting systems in place to ensure that none of its suppliers test on animals, either. When that process is complete, the company will be moved to our cruelty-free list.”
According to this statement made by PETA, Avon is putting systems in place to ensure that none of its suppliers test on animals but that process is not completed yet. And that’s why Avon is not yet certified cruelty-free by PETA.
Avon & China
I’m currently waiting to receive a response from Avon about their cruelty-free claims while selling in China. I will provide an update here once I receive a response from the company.
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Big “booooh!!” for them.
Big “thanks!” to you =)
Thanks Vicky Ly, great information! I applaud your diligence.
Though I respect the fact that you feel you have to point this out to the public, God made Man master over beasts. As a proud Avon Representative, I would like to point out that the Avon Foundation for Women is the world’s largest corporate -affiliated philanthropy that focuses on women’s issues. Since 1955 they have been fighting sexual assault on campuses, fighting domestic violence, and running some of the largest fundraiser for breast cancer.
For 10 years now, Avon’s
Speak Out Against Domestic Violence
works on direct services to bring education, prevention and awareness against domestic violence to people affected. As of 2014-AVON’s SOADV contributed $40 MILLION DOLLARS TO THE CAUSE OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE. AVON HAS RAISED $957 MILLION DOLLARS TOWARD BREAST CANCER RESEARCH.
So. When you want to report and make sure the public is aware of what a company is doing, please tell ALL of the facts. Thank you
Sincerely,
.A Very Proud Avon Representative
Gail McMenomy
Imperial,Missouri
Hi Gail,
I have no doubt in mind that Avon has contributed and done some wonderful charitable work and it’s fantastic to hear about their support and campaign against domestic violence.
This post was to educate consumers about Avon’s stance on animal testing –and that is all. If I had listed out all the success Avon has accomplished in their history, this post would go on forever.
I’ve chosen to highlight and only talk about ONE topic– and that is Avon’s animal testing policy. If you have any questions about animal testing for cosmetics, I’d be happy to try and help answer them for ya.
I pleased that Avon do good things. However I can not condon animal testing for the sake of beauty…try testing things on the men who rape and abuse women I don’t know how you can feel proud selling products that are tested on animals. You are condoning animal testing and are as bad as those working in the labs….blood money!!!!
Well done Joan I couldn’t have said it better myself. Blood money……. what world are we living in. Stop the torture
When God made man master over beasts that doesn’t mean that we can disrespect and abuse them! God also made man the head of the household and treating our spouses with disrespect is certainly not what He had in mind.
Whilst the work that Avon does for women is superb, doing right in one area does not excuse committing wrongs elsewhere.
Domestic violence and animal abuse are two very different topics. Glad to hear they’re against domestic violence but it doesn’t excuse the animal cruelty. Might make Avon feel better about themselves, but I’ll never buy another product and will advise everyone I know about it. For shame Avon, you should know better. One of these days when you’re standing at the pearly gates, lets see you justify it then. We’re all gods creatures and we should be protecting those who cannot speak or protect themselves.
Thank you, Vicky.
Avon are one amongst many it would seem.
It’s crazy, in this day & age that companies do this. All about $$$$.
Thank you Vicky!
As you have also ‘just’ found out about this, may I ask just WHO you are going to buy from now?
Please let us know so that we can tell if you are talking bullsh*t or not……