What Does Cruelty-Free Beauty Really Mean? Your Complete 101 Guide
Breaking Beauty Podcast
Dear Media, Jill Dunn and Carlene Higgins
4.7 • 954 Ratings
🗓️ 14 April 2021
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to Earth Month! Today we’re finding out why “Cruelty-Free” cosmetics is the topic on everyone’s lips – and what it means, really. Helping us navigate, Carlene and Jill are joined by expert blogger Suzana Rose – aka Cruelty-Free Kitty – whose watchdog blog has earned upwards of 600K page views per month, and has been featured in Byrdie, Refinery29, and BBC. Plus, Dr. Carol Treasure hits us with some scientific realness. She’s the founder and CEO of the UK-based XCellR8, an ethical testing lab devoted to 100% animal-free testing for leading cosmetic companies and ingredient suppliers.
Listen in as we cover the fundamentals of what constitutes cruelty-free beauty, and the big head-scratcher: why some beauty companies might still be animal-testing today. Plus, we unpack the latest headlines you may have seen around China's Animal Testing Laws coming into effect May 1st, 2021. Stay tuned until the end to find out which logos you can really trust when you’re shopping (like, does a Bunny on a label suffice?) along with a few of our guests’ personal cruelty-free faves.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast is a dear media production. |
| 0:02.8 | Welcome to Breaking Beauty, |
| 0:08.8 | the podcast all about the breakthrough people, products, and moments in beauty. |
| 0:13.0 | We're your host Jill Dunn and Carleen Higgins. |
| 0:17.0 | Hey, Breaking Beauty Pod Fam. Hello Jill. |
| 0:23.4 | Hey, Carleen. So today's episode is a bit of a glow down, which is where we tap experts in the |
| 0:28.8 | industry and unpack a topic. And because it is Earth Month Month we decided what better time to dive in to the topic of |
| 0:36.8 | cruelty-free beauty something that we've been wanting to do for quite some time. |
| 0:41.1 | That's right and to be honest it's a complex conversation things |
| 0:45.2 | aren't always exactly what they seem it's not black and white so we wanted to |
| 0:49.6 | make sure that we had the exact right people in place that we knew would be able to help us to put together a 101 guide to cruelty-free beauty |
| 0:58.6 | for anyone who's curious about the topic. |
| 1:01.2 | Exactly, and I just love that there's so many more choices in the beauty scape so I'm |
| 1:05.8 | excited to learn more about cruelty-free. |
| 1:08.2 | So we put together a mini panel and we're excited to welcome our guests Dr Carol Treasure. |
| 1:14.4 | She is a UK-based scientist and Susanna Rose and she's the founder of the |
| 1:19.7 | go-to blog on the topic, Cruelty Free Kitty. |
| 1:23.0 | Dr Carroll Treasure is the founder and CEO of Accelerate. |
| 1:27.6 | It's spelled X-C-E-L-R-8. |
| 1:30.7 | It's an ethical testing lab devoted to 100% animal-free testing for leading cosmetic |
| 1:36.3 | companies and ingredient suppliers. She's devoted her career to using innovative |
| 1:41.6 | science to replace animal testing over the past 25 years. |
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