Vegan Brands at Sephora (Updated for 2022!)

This list of vegan brands at Sephora will help make shopping easy for you!

When it comes to shopping for beauty products at Sephora, it can be pretty easy to find options that are not tested on animals. Thankfully there are so many cruelty-free brands at Sephora! But if you want to find a brand that avoids animal testing and is also fully vegan-friendly it can be a bit tougher. 

Whether you’re looking for skincare products, makeup, haircare, perfume, or just the latest amazing vegan beauty products on Sephora’s website, this shopping guide will help make things easier for you.

Sephora carries so many brands. Thankfully there are lots of cruelty-free brands and they all have some vegan-friendly options too. There are a handful of brands that also happen to be completely vegan as well. This is helpful because it takes the guesswork out of knowing what may or may not be vegan when shopping from these brands.

Best vegan products at Sephora:

What’s the difference between cruelty-free and vegan? Let’s get into it!

These two phrases often get used interchangeably. And, oddly enough, neither has a set definition.

What does cruelty-free mean?

Cruelty-free means that there is no animal testing involved at any point. This extends from the ingredients that are used in the products, the formulas, during production, and the final product. It even includes once the final product is for sale in stores. 

A brand can make cruelty-free products and not be vegan. Animal by-products and animal-derived ingredients can be used and a brand can say that they are cruelty-free.

What does vegan mean?

Vegan means that no animal by-products or animal-derived ingredients are used in the product. What are animal-derived ingredients? These are things like carmine, beeswax, honey, lanolin, silk, keratin, and some forms of collagen. These are all commonly used in makeup, skincare, and hair products. 

A brand can make vegan makeup products and still test on animals.

What if a brand is cruelty-free and vegan?

This means there is no animal testing involved at any point and the brand does not use any animal by-products or animal-derived ingredients in any of its products.

Can you trust the Sephora vegan filter? 

Unfortunately not. Sephoras’s website has filters that you can search by to narrow down your shopping. Some people use the Sephora keyword searches for “cruelty-free” or “vegan” to find brands to shop from or products to purchase. It’s not reliable for accurate information. 

Brands that test on animals are listed as cruelty-free and some products that contain animal ingredients are listed as vegan. If you’re curious about vegan options from a cruelty-free brand, there are lots of vegan product lists here on Logical Harmony.

Sephora now has a vegan products page to list only vegan beauty products. It does not claim that the brands are cruelty-free nor does it claim that the brands make only vegan products. In fact, the only definition Sephora gives of their criteria is the tagline in the header image – “High-performance formulas with no animal products or by-products“.

It’s important to point out that vegan and cruelty-free don’t necessarily go hand-in-hand. This page does not make that clear for the average consumer. A brand can be cruelty-free and use animal ingredients or animal by-products. There are longer definitions of what each of these terms generally mean higher up in this post.

Oddly enough, some of the products listed are not actually vegan-friendly. There are products listed that contain animal by-products and animal-derived ingredients like carmine and more.

Some are made by brands that are not cruelty-free. For example, products from Clinique, Gucci, NARS, and Nudestix are included on this page but these brands are not considered cruelty-free. If you are not concerned with animal testing and just the ingredients that are used, this might not be a big deal to you.

However many people assume vegan is the same as cruelty-free when it is not.

This could lead people to think brands do not test on animals when they actually do. It could make people think vegan beauty is tricky and confusing by suggesting products that are not actually vegan.

One of my main goals with Logical Harmony is to take the guesswork out of cruelty-free and make it simple for you. Pages like this on store websites motivate me with that goal and make me want to create more cruelty-free shopping guides and vegan product lists in order to do just that. If you’re curious about vegan options from a cruelty-free brand, there are lots of vegan product lists here on Logical Harmony.

Vegan Brands at Sephora:

All of the brands listed here are cruelty-free and are also sold at Sephora. They are free of any animal testing they also are free of animal by-products and animal-derived ingredients. 

Below is a list of the vegan beauty brands sold at Sephora. Most of these are available in stores, but some might have small sections. For those, shopping online might be your best bet. Just as with the main Logical Harmony Cruelty-Free Brand List, it is noted next to a brand if they are owned by a company that tests on animals.

• 7 Virtues, The
• Athr Beauty
• Aveda – They are cruelty-free, but their parent company is not.
• Biossance
• Ceremonia
• Fenty Skin
• Floral Street
• Freck Beauty
• Good DYE Young
• GXVE by Gwen Stefani
• Haus Labs by Lady Gaga
• Herbivore
• IGK
• Isle of Paradise
• Kitsch
• KVD Beauty
• Kopari
• LYS Beauty
• Makeup Eraser
• MERIT
• Milk Makeup
• Necessaire
• Olaplex
• Ordinary, The – They are cruelty-free, but their parent company is not.
• Pureology – They are cruelty-free, but their parent company is not.
• Rare Beauty by Selena Gomez
• Reverie
• Skylar
• Tower 28 Beauty
• Vegamour
• Youth to the People

If you’re not focused on vegan, there is a list of cruelty-free brands at Sephora too.  Most of these brands have vegan options too. They just aren’t completely vegan.

Vegan Haircare Brands at Sephora:

• Aveda – They are cruelty-free, but their parent company is not.
• Ceremonia
• Good DYE Young
• IGK
• Kitsch
• Olaplex
• Ordinary, The – They are cruelty-free, but their parent company is not.
• Pureology – They are cruelty-free, but their parent company is not.
• Reverie
• Vegamour

Vegan Makeup Brands at Sephora:

• Athr Beauty
• Freck Beauty
• GXVE by Gwen Stefani
• Haus Labs by Lady Gaga
• KVD Beauty
• LYS Beauty
• MERIT
• Milk Makeup
• Rare Beauty by Selena Gomez
• Tower 28 Beauty

Vegan Perfume Brands at Sephora:

• 7 Virtues, The
• Floral Street
• Skylar

Vegan Skincare Brands at Sephora:

• Biossance
• Fenty Skin
• Herbivore
• Isle of Paradise
• Kopari
• Makeup Eraser
• Milk Makeup
• Necessaire
• Ordinary, The – They are cruelty-free, but their parent company is not.
• Tower 28 Beauty
• Youth to the People

Is the Sephora brand cruelty-free?

No. The Sephora brand itself is not cruelty-free. Sephora has many stores in China, where animal testing is required by law. Their own house line of cosmetics and skincare is tested on animals to comply with these laws.

For those who decide to not purchase items from Sephora, you can always go into the store to look at the cruelty-free brands and products in person, take home samples, and then order online directly from the brand itself.

What brands at Sephora test on animals?

Sadly, the list of brands that test on animals at Sephora is long. Most brands that are sold at Sephora test on animals. Want to avoid buying from these brands? Avoid Benefit Cosmetics, Bobbi Brown, Caudalie, Clinique, Estee Lauder, Glamglow, Sephora Collection, and others.

You can look at this brands to avoid list to view other brands that are not cruelty-free and are sold at Sephora.

Thankfully, that does seem to be changing. An increasing number of the new brands carried in Sephora stores are cruelty-free. More and more of these brands are offering easy-to-find vegan products, or are completely vegan too.

Best vegan products at Sephora:

Per reviews, these are some of the best vegan products sold at Spehora. All of the brands who make these products are also cruelty-free.