vegforlife
October 1st, 2005, 04:02 AM
REDKEN
Thank you for visiting Redken on the Web.
The safety of our consumers is our highest priority. As a global leader, the L'Oréal group of companies, which includes Redken, is dedicated to rigorous standards of manufacturing excellence that result in the highest product quality. The products we sell meet the most stringent standards for safety.
All the ingredients we use in a product are listed on the package or the label of the product itself. Since some ingredients are known by more than one name, we use the standard industry names for ingredients as found in the International Cosmetic Ingredient Dictionary. This dictionary lists FDA-approved names. A review of the ingredients that are listed on all of our products or packages will alert you to the presence of this type of ingredient.
Cosmetic products may contain ingredients derived from animal sources such as lanolin, honey and milk. You specifically mentioned "the meat industry", we do not use any ingredients of that type.
If you need additional information please call our toll-free guideline, we could assist you directly. Please call us at 1-800-423-5280, Monday - Friday, 9 am to 7 pm, ET. If you would like to request an ingredient list for a specific product, you may request one at that time. Please provide the advisor answering your call with the reference number located at the end of this message.
Thank you for the opportunity to be of assistance.
Sincerely,
Linda Barton
Consumer Affairs Coordinator
THE BODY SHOP
Thank you for your email and interest in The Body Shop! The Body Shop(r) is not a vegetarian or vegan company. However the vast majority of our
products contain no animal derived ingredients.
We aim to avoid the use of animal-derived ingredients wherever possible and specify non-animal ingredients whenever there is a choice. All our soaps,
for example, use a vegetable base rather than the commonly used animal-fat
base.
Gelatin, beeswax, honey, milk, shellac and lanolin are the only product
ingredients knowingly used by The Body Shop(r) which do not comply with the most current definition of Vegan. Where synthetic forms or derivatives of
these materials are available, such as lactic acid, these are always
specified for our formulations.
Please know that all product ingredients are posted online at (bodyshop website). Once you have clicked on the product you are interested in, select the "All Ingredients" tab found below the product.
Feel free to contact us again if you have any further questions.
Sincerely,
Genetta Bullock
Customer Care Coordinator
Americas Region
(I then grilled the manager at our store, who did hours of research out of fear that she was misleading people and she showed me the book that contained my feared compounds that another store had faxed her which states where their stearates all come from veggies. The only thing they carry that's not even vegetarian is the bath beads with gelatin, and some things contain lanolin (cruelty free, blah blah blah.)
URBAN DECAY (NOTE IT'S NOT A FORM LETTER)
Hi there. I have been asked to answer your ingredient questions, as I am the resident vegetarian and animal rights activist here. And we don’t really have an R&D department, there are only 25 of us running both Urban Decay and Hard Candy brands. In the future, we hope to mark on our website which products are vegan and which are not. We are just not ready to implement that at this time, we have so many other projects we are working on that are taking priority for the website at this time. I do happen to have here a list of all of our ingredients though, so I will answer your questions. Also, if you are unsure if a product is vegan, you can totally email me and ask me to check before purchasing if you’d like. I like to help my veggie friends.
The following products you purchased ARE vegan: Maryjane eyeshadow, Lounge eyeshadow, Baked eyeshadow, Gash lip gunk, nail polish, Baked Bronzer, Big Fatty Lip Plumper
The following products you currently have contain carmine: Midnight cowboy eyeshadow, Knee High Cream eyeshadow, Plutonium and Palladium Liquid Metal Eyes.
As far as sterols, I am being honest in telling you I don’t even know what those are…however, I do know that all of our vendors know we prefer plant-based ingredients whenever possible. We only use carmine because we haven’t yet found an alternative that doesn’t compromise the quality of our products. From what the vendors have told me, the only animal-derived ingredients we use are carmine and beeswax.
Let me know if you have any further questions…
tammy
I plan on talking to Tammy quite a bit in the future...
However, upon looking at my Redken Extreme conditioner, the first second ingredient is derived from sperm whale fat??? I will get to the bottom of this on Monday.
Thank you for visiting Redken on the Web.
The safety of our consumers is our highest priority. As a global leader, the L'Oréal group of companies, which includes Redken, is dedicated to rigorous standards of manufacturing excellence that result in the highest product quality. The products we sell meet the most stringent standards for safety.
All the ingredients we use in a product are listed on the package or the label of the product itself. Since some ingredients are known by more than one name, we use the standard industry names for ingredients as found in the International Cosmetic Ingredient Dictionary. This dictionary lists FDA-approved names. A review of the ingredients that are listed on all of our products or packages will alert you to the presence of this type of ingredient.
Cosmetic products may contain ingredients derived from animal sources such as lanolin, honey and milk. You specifically mentioned "the meat industry", we do not use any ingredients of that type.
If you need additional information please call our toll-free guideline, we could assist you directly. Please call us at 1-800-423-5280, Monday - Friday, 9 am to 7 pm, ET. If you would like to request an ingredient list for a specific product, you may request one at that time. Please provide the advisor answering your call with the reference number located at the end of this message.
Thank you for the opportunity to be of assistance.
Sincerely,
Linda Barton
Consumer Affairs Coordinator
THE BODY SHOP
Thank you for your email and interest in The Body Shop! The Body Shop(r) is not a vegetarian or vegan company. However the vast majority of our
products contain no animal derived ingredients.
We aim to avoid the use of animal-derived ingredients wherever possible and specify non-animal ingredients whenever there is a choice. All our soaps,
for example, use a vegetable base rather than the commonly used animal-fat
base.
Gelatin, beeswax, honey, milk, shellac and lanolin are the only product
ingredients knowingly used by The Body Shop(r) which do not comply with the most current definition of Vegan. Where synthetic forms or derivatives of
these materials are available, such as lactic acid, these are always
specified for our formulations.
Please know that all product ingredients are posted online at (bodyshop website). Once you have clicked on the product you are interested in, select the "All Ingredients" tab found below the product.
Feel free to contact us again if you have any further questions.
Sincerely,
Genetta Bullock
Customer Care Coordinator
Americas Region
(I then grilled the manager at our store, who did hours of research out of fear that she was misleading people and she showed me the book that contained my feared compounds that another store had faxed her which states where their stearates all come from veggies. The only thing they carry that's not even vegetarian is the bath beads with gelatin, and some things contain lanolin (cruelty free, blah blah blah.)
URBAN DECAY (NOTE IT'S NOT A FORM LETTER)
Hi there. I have been asked to answer your ingredient questions, as I am the resident vegetarian and animal rights activist here. And we don’t really have an R&D department, there are only 25 of us running both Urban Decay and Hard Candy brands. In the future, we hope to mark on our website which products are vegan and which are not. We are just not ready to implement that at this time, we have so many other projects we are working on that are taking priority for the website at this time. I do happen to have here a list of all of our ingredients though, so I will answer your questions. Also, if you are unsure if a product is vegan, you can totally email me and ask me to check before purchasing if you’d like. I like to help my veggie friends.
The following products you purchased ARE vegan: Maryjane eyeshadow, Lounge eyeshadow, Baked eyeshadow, Gash lip gunk, nail polish, Baked Bronzer, Big Fatty Lip Plumper
The following products you currently have contain carmine: Midnight cowboy eyeshadow, Knee High Cream eyeshadow, Plutonium and Palladium Liquid Metal Eyes.
As far as sterols, I am being honest in telling you I don’t even know what those are…however, I do know that all of our vendors know we prefer plant-based ingredients whenever possible. We only use carmine because we haven’t yet found an alternative that doesn’t compromise the quality of our products. From what the vendors have told me, the only animal-derived ingredients we use are carmine and beeswax.
Let me know if you have any further questions…
tammy
I plan on talking to Tammy quite a bit in the future...
However, upon looking at my Redken Extreme conditioner, the first second ingredient is derived from sperm whale fat??? I will get to the bottom of this on Monday.