No Animals Will Be Harmed
In the Making Of Your Fashions
When You Choose Vegan Products

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Vegan products are so much more than what foods you choose to eat. It's also fashion and beauty items like clothing, shoes, handbags, accessories, skin and personal care products. You may find as you shop that something that appears to be leather may actually be synthetic. It is surprising how beautiful, stylish and comfortable being animal friendly can be.

With some of the great new fashion options we have choosing non leather items is just plain stylish. It is also easier to find especially in some items like handbags. If you are trying to avoid all animal products it can be a bit of a challenge. But it's getting easier all the time thanks to designers, companies and individuals who share your views and bring more vegan products to the market.

Vegan, Vegetarian, Animal Friendly Etc

You will probably see it referred to many different ways. Fashion designers, manufacturers and stores often use the term faux leather, animal friendly, non leather, cruelty free or vegetarian. When something is called vegan and it follows the strict meaning of the word it would mean that no living thing was harmed and that would mean insects too. They play a part in both beauty and fashion.

No Leather

Synthetic materials are often the answer to leather in vegan products. It offers the best, most durable option. It works well for many items and you would find it difficult to tell the difference.

Imitation leather has come along way and is softer and more comfortable than ever. Unfortunately, for the most part producing synthetic materials is not an environmentally friendly process. Certainly for many items natural fabrics are an eco friendly choice but shoes need tougher more durable materials and faux leather along with some recyled materials are the most popular choice.

Some women seem reluctant to consider non leather items particularly shoes. Synthetic materials have been thought of as cheap but that has changed. Synthetic materials are greatly improved. Some companies are even working to make producing synthetics more environmentally friendly.

Fun Vegan Products: Handbags and Shoes

Vegan shoes are being made by some top designers and companies in new styles and selections that can compete with today's newest trends. Synthetic materials used for shoes have improved so much in the last few years making shoes more comfortable and beautiful.

The look of leather in handbags will never go out of fashion but we don't have to use the real thing. Materials that look like leather can give us the same great look without the harm. What makes handbags so fun is that they can be made from so many different materials and fabrics. If it's animal friendly it's a vegan handbag.

Animal Friendly Clothing

Whatever your concerns whether it's the use of animal skin or fur, how animals are treated for their wool or harm to moths that are used to make silk, alternatives are available.

Vegan clothing can be made from all natural plant materials like cotton or hemp, synthetics like pleather or faux leather like the metrostyle jacket on the right, polar fleece made from recycled plastic bottles or even Tencel which is created by combining natural and synthetic ingredients.

An alternative to fur is material made from mod acrylics, which are used to create faux fur. Beautiful coats, jackets, clothing and accessories that rival the look of real fur are a wonderful choice over real fur.

You don't have to give up wool there are small farms where the sheep are treated humanely, as is not always the case.

To obtain silk the process involves boiling living silk worms within their cocoons. Tussah or peace silk is obtained when the moths have been allowed to mature and leave the cocoon on their own.

Check out vegan clothing for information on alternatives to conventional wool and silk.

Vegan Personal Care

Animal ingredients in our skin and personal care products is quite common but more and more we can find vegan beauty products that don't contain any animal ingredients and that offer natural, effective skin care.

Do you know what your brushes are made from? It could be animal hair. Vegan brushes made from Taklon are very soft and work well. You may never notice a difference.

Animal, People and Earth Friendly

I think you will find as you are shopping for vegan products that often when companies are concerned about animals they are also concerned for the workers who make their products and the environmental impact of their business.

Don't you think these are truly the best kinds of products? While it can be a challenge to find companies that do all this they are out there and their numbers are growing making shopping for vegan products even easier.