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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.
38 thoughts on “Avon”
My mother, my two daughters, their two daughters and myself no longer buy avon since they are no longer cruelty free- I wonder how many other women who care about animal cruelty have left? There are plenty of great companies that now have our business. Thank you for the info!
No more Avon for me – from today all Avon products are in the bin. Hope everyone acts in the same way – no excuse to treat animals this way ( I forgot – MONEY).
Animals are the beauty of the world and they need people like you Gail to help them other wise it will just carry on. Avon are misleading people in believing they are not testing on animals yet pay other companies to do it for them. What does that make them? How can they watch this go on…. Help these innocent animals and stop their suffering ;-(
Thank you Vicky! I was very slightly considering signing up as an Avon Rep and while doing some research I ran across your information. This has completely changed my mind. In the past 15 years, my family and I haven’t spent a dime on any product from a company that isn’t cruelty-free, and we won’t start now. Avon’s charities may do some great work for the people, but maybe it’s time they take a stand and legitimately respect animal welfare. If they are creatively covering this up, it makes me skeptical about EVERYTHING surrounding this company.
I really didnt know that avon did this to animals. Its disgusting that china do this. No more avon for me. Was just going to pkace an order for 60 pounds, not now just going to put it in the bin where it belongs this day and age. I will also put family and friends off buying avon. In fact as many as i can now. Goodbye avon would rather go without makeup.
I will not buy Avon again. I believed their claim that they did not test on animals, Also if they value China’s business more than NorthAmerica
they are not company I want to deal with anyway. China is a discusting
Country as far as human and animal rights go. Don’t anybody forget about China’s part in poisoning thousands of pets back in 2007(re menu foods)