Comments on: Flower Beauty May No Longer Be Vegan Friendly

By: Charlie

Charlie — Sat, 19 Dec 2020 04:13:47 +0000

What about the environment!? Why are you all so fixated on it being vegan when makeup is proven to be a huge contributor to destroying our planet? What good is it to save animals for testing while making the earth un-inhabitable? Some hollywood star who wants to use her “image” to profit from a company selling cosmetics for sake of vanity.

By: Julie Forkenbrock

Julie Forkenbrock — Wed, 27 Apr 2016 08:52:32 +0000

Hello! I just now came across your web site/blog after searching the question ‘how safe is the Flower Beauty brand,’ after I could not locate this brand on the EWG/Skin Deep web site. I sent the following email on the Flower Beauty site, but have yet to hear anything back. I’m a licensed Master Esthetician and I hold an Oncology Esthetics certification. I’m certainly not perfect, but I try to only use healthy, non toxic, safe ingredients in my skin care and cosmetics, and I strive to only recommend the same to my clients. Many have/had very compromised health from having cancer, and many have asked me opinions on products and ingredients. Per my oncology training, because of the negativity even though they are still deemed safe per the US’ FDA (who I hold little respect for as it is), parabens should absolutley be avoided.

I find it hard to believe Drew Barrymore is fully aware of any toxic ingredients, whether controversial or not. I cannot recommend for my clients to use Flower Beauty until the parabens/toxins are removed.

I’m glad to come across your site and I’m happy there are people out there spreading the word on the truth when it comes to these topics.

By: Christine

Christine — Sat, 06 Feb 2016 20:04:07 +0000

FYI Carmine is obtained from insects.I’m not sure what other ingredients they use but that”s where they get that one from.

By: Samsy

Samsy — Sun, 24 May 2015 20:28:36 +0000

In reply to Tashina Combs. I no one (NO ONE) would buy their tested and/or animal ingredients products then they would change. Or go down. I wonder... if we need to look for what is vegan, instead of what is containing stuff that is NOT vegan. Not tested on other beings than humans.

By: Aletheia

Aletheia — Tue, 09 Sep 2014 09:56:48 +0000

This is so sad, I thought I had found the perfect make up but to find out it’s not vegan.. ack!

By: Julie Turek

Julie Turek — Sun, 07 Sep 2014 03:59:35 +0000

In reply to Tashina Combs.

pacificabeauty.com has a cc cream that is 20% off right now with code: bestcc

I genuinely do not know why anyone would use any other brand. EVERYTHING is both cruelty free and vegan. Even their fragrances, candles, makeup, you name it.

I couldn’t recommend a brand more.

I have no association with the brand, but am a big fan of the products.

By: Tashina Combs

Tashina Combs — Thu, 21 Aug 2014 17:23:14 +0000

In reply to Cheryl. Sadly, it's not hard to produce them without harming animals. It's so frustrating that brands continue to test on animals and use animal ingredients when it's definitely not necessary.

By: Cheryl

Cheryl — Tue, 19 Aug 2014 11:44:45 +0000

Why oh WHY is it so hard to produce cosmetics without harming animals????

By: Tashina Combs

Tashina Combs — Sun, 30 Mar 2014 03:39:24 +0000

In reply to linda.

Hi Linda,

Thanks for bringing that to my attention! I just updated the link, but you can also read the article here – http://logicalharmony.net/update-flower-beautys-vegan-status. Essentially, they are saying that the brand is cruelty free but most products are not vegan friendly. 🙁

By: linda

linda — Sat, 22 Mar 2014 07:47:05 +0000

In reply to Tashina. Hi Tashina. I tried clicking on your link above to read the most updated entry about Flower Beauty's vegan status but the link had an error. Could you kindly update us what it's all about?

By: Tashina

Tashina — Thu, 09 Jan 2014 17:24:49 +0000

In reply to Christine (@MakeUpGuineaPig).

Hi Christine,

This is the first time I’ve heard of a product that has carmine listed in the ingredients and not “may contain carmine”! When I first talked to the person, I sent a list of commonly used animal ingredients (identifying them as such) and was told none were in the products. It is often that people don’t know what vegan means or what ingredients are, so I always send a list of potential ingredients.

When readers started reporting seeing “may contain carmine” I asked and was told that it was only because they used shared equipment and no carmine or other animal ingredients were used in any of the products. It’s frustrating to me that they were very specific about this more than once.

By: Christine (@MakeUpGuineaPig)

Christine (@MakeUpGuineaPig) — Thu, 09 Jan 2014 16:52:38 +0000

After reading this I checked one of the lipsticks I bought right after they were released. It DOES contain Carmine, so the line has never been Vegan. There could be some confusion on the part of who you initially spoke with about what Carmine is or what constitutes Vegan, but they should know better. This is definitely a stain on Flower and I am so sorry to anyone who has been misled by their inaccurate claims.

By: moraglee

moraglee — Wed, 08 Jan 2014 21:42:07 +0000

This is such a shame, and a really bad move by their PR staff! Please don’t feel bad about this as we have all wrongly purchased products in the past and you had very good reason to believe they were vegan!

By: Catherine (@bcrueltyfree)

Catherine (@bcrueltyfree) — Wed, 25 Dec 2013 05:05:57 +0000

Wow. I’m actually shocked about this. I hope the people who stated it was a vegan brand can shed light on this because it really seems strange. I actually just recently purchased some new FLOWER products and have reviews pending, so I’m very glad I saw this before they went up categorized under “vegan.” Thank you for keeping us all up to date on this, Tashina. It’s really not right that you find yourself in this position where you’ve recommended and purchased so many products based on a false claim. You did thorough research and had no reason to suspect that the statements you received weren’t accurate – they were directly from the brand, and multiple sources! There’s got to be some explanation.

By: Melissa Bechter

Melissa Bechter — Wed, 25 Dec 2013 02:40:57 +0000

Such a bummer 🙁 I was just referring a friend who was asking me about vegan friendly makeup to your website & your Flower reviews. Thanks for keeping us up to date on this.