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Best Skin Care Products (Not Tested On Animals)

It’s nice to take care of your skin and achieve that healthy, radiant, glowing look. But, like sitting out in the sun for too long to improve a tan, many skin care products achieve the end result (nice skin) with questionable methods and ingredients. Moisturizers and body lotions, in particular, come with ingredient lists that are often 40 or 50 chemicals long, and although most of those ingredients aren’t particularly worrisome, some are—like BHA, an immune system and organ toxicant (and possible carcinogen), and aluminum starch octenylsuccinate, a neurotoxin that could come contaminated with heavy metals like lead or arsenic. (more)

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Best Skin Care Products (Not Tested On Animals)

Tom's Of Maine Shaving Cream-Mint
Tom's Of Maine Shaving Cream-Mint
  • $5.30
8.8
Dr. Bronner's Magic Organic Peppermint Body Balm
Dr. Bronner's Magic Organic Peppermint Body Balm
  • $4.99
8.6
Burt's Bees Honey Lip Balm
Burt's Bees Honey Lip Balm
  • $3.00
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8.6
Gourmet Body Treats Brown Sugar and Coffee Scrub
Gourmet Body Treats Brown Sugar and Coffee Scrub
  • $17.00
8.5
The Body Shop Aloe Gentle Facial Wash
The Body Shop Aloe Gentle Facial Wash
  • $16.00
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8.3
Badger Cocoa Butter Lip Balm - Cool Mint
Badger Cocoa Butter Lip Balm - Cool Mint
  • $5.00
8.3
Aubrey Organics Collagen & Almond Moisturizing Hand & Body Lotion
Aubrey Organics Collagen & Almond Moisturizing Hand ...
  • $12.25
8.3
Method Hand Sanitizer, Sweet Water
Method Hand Sanitizer, Sweet Water
  • $5.00
8.2
Kiss My Face After Sun Aloe Soother
Kiss My Face After Sun Aloe Soother
  • $8.95
7.8
EO Hand Cream French Lemon Verbena
EO Hand Cream French Lemon Verbena
  • $7.64
7.7
Alba Botanica Green Tea Eye Gel
Alba Botanica Green Tea Eye Gel
  • $17.95
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7.7
Avalon Organics CoQ10 Wrinkle Defense Serum
Avalon Organics CoQ10 Wrinkle Defense Serum
  • $24.95
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7.7
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Moisturizers often use oxybenzone or cetereath-20, which enhance absorption and allow the other chemical ingredients in the product to better get into your skin. You'll also sometimes find immune system toxicants triethanolamine and DMDM hydantoin.

Triclosan, an anti-bacterial ingredient found in a huge variety of skin care products, also shows up in lotions and moisturizers, is a health concern as a skin irritant, and is an environmental concern for the way it accumulates in the environment and is hazardous to marine life.

Skin care products also use “fragrance”, a trade-secret blend of ingredients that’s an allergy concern and could conceal other more harmful chemicals such as phthalates, which are tied to a number of human health problems.

You can look for all these chemicals in the ingredients ratings here or browse our data for skin care products with high health and environmental ratings. And you can check for companies that don’t test their products on animals.