“vegan – A person who does not eat or use animal products.”
My definition for vegan-friendly and cruelty-free art supplies is:
A product can be considered vegan, if the entire product itself does not contain animal ingredients, byproducts/ derivatives and none of those are used in the manufacturing process, e.g. the use of animal derived oils and fats in surfactants for the dispersion of pigments. The manufacturer does not test on animals or commissions other parties to do so, none of their parent and sister companies or any other partners test on animals or commission animal testing, none of their raw material suppliers and subsuppliers test on animals or commission animal testing, if there are other options. (According to the European Chemicals Agency, ECHA, animal testing has to be avoided if it is possible and has the goal to minimize animal testing for REACH. Lastly, there is no animal testing abroad for the manufacturer’s products to be sold abroad.)
By “entire product”, all parts of the product are meant, e.g. the ink and its jar it is contained in, the body and nibs of a marker, a pencil’s wooden body as well as lacquer/ print on it. My blog “veganarstuff.info” provides information on vegan, vegan friendly and cruelty-free art supplies.
Newest posts:
- enquiries sent out and more: Papermate, Uniball, Windsor & Newton
- Luminance and Polychromos – the differences
- Looking for encaustic wax free of animal derivatives
- Good News: Caran d’Ache
- Holbein update : no changes
- Cruelty-free and its different meaning
- Faber-Castell meat marking pen discontinued
- Cruelty-free and raw material suppliers
- Copics update concerning MSDS
- Copic – Too Marker Products
- Enquiries sent to Copic and Epson
- clear Gesso – reply to a reader mail
- Faber Castell update
- Faber-Castell product update enquiry sent out
- Quite perplexing …