Going cruelty free.

I’ve always been someone who is aware and unhappy about animal testing but have never really looked into which brands test on animal and which are cruelty free.  A recent look in the cleaning cupboard at home lead me to come across some Astonish anti-bacterial cleanser that works amazingly and smells great and its cruelty free!  The realisation that actually it’s not that hard to come across cruelty free products spurred me into doing a bit of research on the ‘beauty’ products I use daily and whether they were recognised as cruelty free or not.

A simple google search of “is (brand name) cruelty free?” helped me to come across the following on the brands ii regularly use:

Simple- not cruelty free

Nivea- not cruelty free

Tresseme- not cruelty free

Collection- unsure as mixed answers came up on the search

Make up revolution- cruelty free

Super drug (own brand) - cruelty free

Wilkinson’s (own brand) - unsure

Aldi (own brand) - unsure as all that comes up is cleaning product information

Tesco (own brand) - Claims to be cruelty free but not been recognised

Avon- not cruelty free

Zoella beauty- cruelty free

 

Then came the looking into alternatives for the products that aren’t cruelty free (the majority) but that also didn’t break the bank (I’m trying to save for a house).  My first stop was Superdrug, whose own brand products are all cruelty free with the recognised picture saying so, I ordered a fair amount from here and can’t wait to test them to see if I like them.

Cruelty free logo's I'm looking out for.

 

 

I can’t wait to test them all and to see if my skin will happily accept the change in products (fingers crossed).

 Leigh xx

Mamma Mia!

Recently I went to an amateur production of Mamma Mia.  Having only watched about half an hour of the film and turning it off as I wasn’t a fan made going seem a bit stupid.  I bought a ticket anyway wanting to support a workmates husband and a great charity and had an absolutely brilliant time!

 

The car ride there was full of laughs and giggles.  One of my colleagues drove picking me and other lady up, we all get on really well so it was a fun car journey even if we didn’t really know where we were going.

 

Right from the off we were encouraged to cheer really loud, sing along and to generally just have fun! And that’s exactly what we did.  The actors did an amazing job and even carried on then there was a technical glitch in which all the sound and stage lighting all went off. Brilliant.

 

If there was one thing I didn’t like about the show was the female roles.  There were a lot of women and not many parts to play so they were all taking it in turns for a scene to come out and play different characters, making it very confusing for someone like me who doesn’t know the story line.  Other than the confusion it was a great night out with the lovely ladies from work. One I wouldn’t mind doing again, let’s see what they do next year!

 

Leigh x