Update | VeganArtStuff

Today I wrote again to Daniel Smith, Kuretake, Viarco and Sennelier. I did not stop looking out for our vegan friendly products, but I waited and hoped to have heard back by now from several companies.

Since there are a lot of different brands and companies around the globe, I am also happy if you want to let me know about a brand or company that I did not mention or thought of before here(https://www.veganartstuff.info/2017/04/28/big-overview-so-far-end-of-april/) and I will write to them. I also looked through Etsy last month and wrote down a couple of Etsy shops selling their own inks and also brand names from different countries, e.g. Lithuania. I am still a bit hesitant because I don’t want to release “vegan hell” on single indivuals making art supplies in small amounts.

I hope there will be new company updates soon,

Ansho

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Vegan friendly and cruelty-free criteria:
A product can be considered vegan, if the entire product itself does not contain animal ingredients, byproducts/ derivatives and none of those are used in the manufacturing process, e.g. the use of animal derived oils and fats in surfactants for the dispersion of pigments. The manufacturer does not test on animals or commissions other parties to do so, none of their parent and sister companies or any other partners test on animals or commission animal testing, none of their raw material suppliers and subsuppliers test on animals or commission animal testing, if there are other options. (According to the European Chemicals Agency, ECHA, animal testing has to be avoided if it is possible and has the goal to minimize animal testing for REACH. Lastly, there is no animal testing abroad for the manufacturer’s products to be sold abroad.)
By “entire product”, all parts of the product are meant, e.g. the ink and its jar it is contained in, the body and nibs of a marker, a pencil’s wooden body as well as lacquer/ print on it.