It’s true that everyone either changes the channel or mutes that animal abuse commercial with the Sarah McLachlan song “In the arms of the angels.” If you don’t know what I’m talking about you can torture your soul HERE.

Animal abuse is something that people don’t necessarily like to talk about, and that’s pretty normal, because it’s an emotionally charged topic no matter how you put it. When someone thinks of animal abuse the common image that comes to mind is usually a cowering half-starved dog about to get beaten, not many people think of the countless number of rabbits, mice, and other mammals who endure a life consisting of having toxins injected into their eyes and stomachs regularly for cosmetic companies to gauge the side effects and level of irritancy that the synthetic chemicals used in makeup may cause on human skin.

Since more and more people are becoming conscious of animal testing and advocating against it, many cosmetic brands have taken steps to become “leaping bunny certified.”

The leaping bunny program is part of the Coalition for Consumer information on Cosmetics, which work[s] with companies to make shopping for animal-friendly products easier and more trustworthy,” as stated on the official leaping bunny website.

So this article is aimed at helping people find brands of makeup that really are cruelty free and within anyone’s price range.

For those who shop at the beloved Sephora, here are the cruelty free brands that they sell. However the Sephora makeup brand isn’t cruelty free. They don’t test on animals except when it is required by law and their products are being sold in China, where animal testing is required by the law.

• Anastasia Beverly Hills
• Hourglass
• Too Faced
• Tarte
• Kat Von D
• Josie Maran
• Becca
• Bite Beauty
• Blinc
• Urban Decay
• Butter London
• Cover FX
• Deborah Lippmann
• Julep
• Obsessive Compulsive Cosmetics
• Eyeko
• Nudestix
• Perfekt

Since makeup at Sephora can be a little bit on the pricey end, many people shop at drugstores, where it’s a lot harder to find cruelty-free alternatives to the big brands that do test on animals like L’Oreal, Maybelline, Revlon, Rimmel London, and CoverGirl. According to crueltyfreekitty.com the most common cruelty free drugstore makeup brands are Wet’n’Wild, Physicians Formula, Milani, Hard Candy, Jordana, and Sonia Kashuk.