One has to be careful to understand what these lists mean. L'Oreal does not test its finished products on animals, but might test the ingredients, and is owned by Nestle boycotted for its baby milk industry. The Body Shop makes a very firm and open stand against animal testing, and many of its products are free of animal ingredients, but it sells bathing pearls made from gelatine, a slaughterhouse product. Chanel does not test on animals, but only now they phase out the use of musk (civet). (To know the source of dozens of other ingredients of all sorts of products see here.)

As one can expect, the lists provided in this section are not complete. Searching the Internet for "cruelty free" via a search engine can bring many results. (They include many cruelty free shops on-line similar to the online shop run by Animal Aid.) The lists provided in this section are intended as a comprehensive introduction and guide to the animal cruelty free shopping. There are bigger or smaller results of anti-cruelty campaigns. For instance, as a result of campaigning and consumer pressure both Gillette and Colgate-Palmolive adopted a moratorium on animal testing. The fight continuous with Procter&Gamble.

Again, please bear in mind that the on-line information to aid the animal cruelty free shopping is sometimes followed by or provided together with some controversial material which I do not endorse.