The Ultimate Guide to Cruelty-Free Nail Polish Brands
When I first switched to using all vegan beauty and household products, I was really surprised at how easy it was to find vegan nail polish. There are a lot of cruelty-free brands that offer a lot of vegan options and there are also a lot of brands that offer vegan nail polish too. A lot of people have seemed really surprised when they learn that all nail polish isn’t vegan.
People know about animal testing and what brands to avoid because of that, but not about animal ingredients that polish can contain. The short story is that a lot of brands test on animals, but a lot of nail polish also contains animal ingredients. Read more about what makes nail polish vegan and learn what these animal ingredients are.
Below are brands that are not only cruelty-free but also offer vegan nail polishes.
Cruelty-Free Nail Polish Brands:
- 100% Pure
- AILA Cosmetics
- Barry M
- Beauty Without Cruelty – 100% vegan
- Blu Ink Nail Lacquer – 100% vegan
- Butter London
- Ciaté
- Color Club
- Deborah Lippmann
- Deco Miami – 100% vegan
- Dimension Nails – 100% vegan
- ELF – 100% vegan
- Ella + Mila
- Fairypants
- Joshik Polish
- Habit Cosmetics
- Gabriel Cosmetics
- Kester Black
- KL Polish – 100% vegan
- La Couleur Couture (LACC)
- Lauren B. Beauty – 100% vegan
- LVX – 100% vegan
- Madam Glam – 100% vegan
- Manic Panic
- Marc Jacobs Beauty
- Mented Cosmetics – 100% vegan
- Milani
- Mineral Fusion
- NCLA Beauty – 100% vegan
- No Miss
- Nash + Pino – 100% vegan
- NYX – It should be noted that they are cruelty-free, but their parent company is not. =
- OOO Polish (Triple O Polish) – 100% vegan
- ORLY
- Pacifica – 100% vegan
- Pear Nova – 100% vegan
- People of Color Beauty – 100% vegan
- piCture pOlish
- Piggy Paint
- Piggy Polish
- Pixi Beauty
- Priti NYC
- RMS Beauty
- Ruby Kisses
- Sienna Byron Bay – 100% vegan
- SpaRitual
- Sugarpill Cosmetics
- Trust Fund Beauty
- Ulta Collection
- Urban Decay – It should be noted that they are cruelty-free, but their parent company is not.
- Wrenn – 100% vegan
- Zoya
Cruelty-Free Gel Polish Brands:
The following cruelty-free brands also make cruelty-free gel polish.
- Barry M
- Deborah Lippmann
- Dimension Nails – 100% vegan
- Madam Glam – 100% vegan
- NCLA Beauty – 100% vegan
- OOO Polish (Triple O Polish) – 100% vegan
- Pear Nova – 100% vegan
Cruelty-Free Builder Gel Polish Brands:
- Dimension Nails – 100% vegan
- Madam Glam – 100% vegan
Cruelty-Free Builder Dip Powder Brands:
- Dimension Nails – 100% vegan
- Madam Glam – 100% vegan
Cruelty-Free Poly Gel Polish Brands:
- Dimension Nails – 100% vegan
- Madam Glam – 100% vegan
Cruelty-Free Drugstore Nail Polish Brands:
The following are cruelty-free nail polish brands that can be found in the drugstore:
- Barry M
- Beauty Without Cruelty – 100% vegan
- ELF – 100% vegan
- Ella + Mila
- Gabriel Cosmetics
- Milani
- Mineral Fusion
- NYX – It should be noted that they are cruelty-free, but their parent company is not.
- ORLY
- Pacifica – 100% vegan
- Pixi Beauty
- Ulta Collection
- Zoya
Nail Polish Brands that are NOT Cruelty-Free:
The following brands are not cruelty-free and also make nail polish. This is not a full list but just includes the most popular brands out there.
- Creative Nail Design (CND)
- Essie
- Formula X
- L’Oreal
- Max Factor
- Maybelline
- Revlon
- Rimmel
- Sally Hansen
- Sinful Colors
Do you know of other cruelty-free nail polish brands? Please comment and let me know! I’d love to keep expanding this list to include more options!
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Essence has a few shades of nail polish. I know they are on the Cruelty-free makeup list, but I was wondering why they weren’t on the nail polish list. Do they use ingredients tested on animals for the polishes?
Hi Victoria! Essence is actually on the Grey Area list and I am not comfortable calling them cruelty-free based on what they have shared with me. This is why they aren’t on this list. I hope this helps!
Hi Tashina,
I love the way you have a specific list just for nail polish! I was so glad to hear there are Cruelty Free nail gels as well. When I go to NYC, to visit my old stomping grounds, I always try to stop in the Elf Store. I can get Elf cosmetics here in PA, but going to a store dedicated to their products gives so much variety.
Hi Tashina, thanks for all of your hard work. Have you heard anything about Madam Glam? I believe they are vegan and 5-free.
Are all orly polishes still vegan? Thank you! Your site is absolutely amazing btw, so helpful! 🙂 <3
Hi Ashley,
Their polishes are, but not the treatments. 🙂
I just read your post about Zoya’s nail polish remover, that I ant to buy, but are all of their nail polish vegan?
I have been told that their polishes are all vegan, but not all items they make are vegan. 🙂
Rimmel London don’t test on animals and their “60 seconds super shine” nail polish definitely contains no animal products. I don’t know about there other nail polishes but pretty sure that one is clean! 🙂
Sadly, Rimmel does test on animals. 🙁
Mineral Fusion.
Butter London?
Hi Kalyn,
Butter London was removed from this list because not all of their nail polishes are vegan anymore. 🙁
I thought I saw Wet n wild on here a while back. Are their polishes no longer vegan?
Hi Janet,
Wet’n’Wild did used to be on this list. I removed them because not all polish shades are vegan, which is really confusing for a lot of people. So I decided to make this a list where people can pick from brands where they don’t have to worry about checking ingredients in each shade.
Palate Polish is the BEST vegan nail polish
Hi Monqiue,
I’m not familiar with the brand, but have reached out to them. Hopefully they can be added to the list soon!