The honest body: 14 cruelty-free beauty products you'll adore

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Like vegan food, vegan beauty products are free of all animal byproducts.

Even if a beauty brand is cruelty-free, which means it doesn't harm or kill animals, many companies still use animal ingredients in their products. In some people's minds, ingredients sourced from animals does not constitute "cruelty-free."

For instance, many lipsticks, eyeshadows and blushes use carmine, a red color pigment sourced from insects. When a company says it doesn't test on animals and is mainly vegan-friendly, its products won't likely contain this ingredient or beeswax.

Ingredients are almost always labeled on the actual product or online. PETA has a list of animal ingredients to learn what the exact names mean and where they originate.

Here are 14 Mashable-tested items to use along your vegan beauty journey.

Note that these are are vegan and cruelty-free products but the beauty companies themselves are not necessarily 100% vegan.

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