Beauty With Conscience

The UK and a few other EU countries have introduced bans or partial bans on cosmetics animal testing, but the cruel practice still exists in parts of Europe and other places around the world. Although the EU has finally agreed to a Europe-wide ban on testing cosmetics on animals, the ban won't go into effect until you're married with children. An EU ban on the sale of new animal-tested cosmetics is also in the works, but a complete ban won't be in place until you're married with grandchildren!

So until then, we must only support companies that refuse to perform tests on animals for the sake of vanity. You can do your part by learning which companies refuse to test their products or their ingredients on animals. It's easy – just check out the British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection's cruelty-free guide.

You can find a list of cruelty-free products here. Then check out our "Testing … One, Two, Three" video to see what really goes on in cosmetics animal testing. But first, check out a few stars' cruelty-free favourites!

Dermalogica
The A-list can't get enough of this cruelty-free brand! It's not surprising that these luxury products, which are used in top beauty salons all over the world, are scooped up by hordes of stars!

What peta2 Loves: The Ultra Calming cleanser – it will protect your skin against today's environmental nasties, like pollution.

Celebrity fans include Victoria Beckham, Katie Holmes, Courtney Cox and Jessica Biel.

Urban Decay
Cosmetics at their most fun! Widely available in any Boots store and in the most gorgeous colours! No wonder their products are on the top of A-listers' wish lists.

What peta2 Loves: Their Surreal Skin Liquid Foundation, for a flawless base without caking.Their synthetic brushes are some of the best out there too!

Celebrity fans include Peaches Geldof, Sugababes, Gwen Stefani and Drew Barrymore.

Too Faced
Too Faced is a firm favourite among today's hottest make-up artists and fashion stylists and is even used on movie sets, in music videos, and on television programmes including Desperate Housewives and The OC. Not only that, they're also 100 percent animal-friendly!

What peta2 Loves: Too Faced Lip Injection – for a perfect pout!

Celebrity fans include Paris Hilton and Pamela Anderson (swoon!).

Lush
Now, if you want to look A-list, you need to make sure that your skin is smooth and polished. Lush uses natural ingredients and wouldn't dream of hurting a hair on a bunny's head to get results – after all, there's no need!

What peta2 Loves: The Aqua Mirabilis scrub bar. It's gorgeous, and it smells good enough to eat – but don't!

Celebrity fans include Angelina Jolie, Eva Green and Halle Berry.

One more thing: remember to beware of companies' statements on packaging or Web sites about not testing their products on animals. Sure, the statements sound good, but they can hide the fact that a company is buying ingredients which are tested on animals. It's the ingredients that we need to be concerned about, since Europe has banned testing the final products on animals. Make sure you keep the pressure on cosmetics companies to use only non-animal-tested ingredients! Just look for the leaping bunny logo!

Now go get pretty!