Faber-Castell is completely cruelty-free and has been so for more than several decades (more than 40 years), including their raw material suppliers. This does not only mean, they don’t test on animals and do not commission such testing but also their raw material suppliers don’t test or commission for the material they use. So no animal testing on any level, including MSDS (material safety data sheets) and raw material suppliers.
All listed products here are free of animal derivatives, including the manufacturing process and packaging.
cruelty-free status: cruelty-free on all levels
Here is my updated (incomplete) list of products, free of animal derivatives :
- Gelatos
- all Faber-Castell coloured pencils (including Albrecht Dürer and Polychromos)
- all graphite pencils
- watersoluble graphite aquarelle pencils
- Art Grip aquarelle pencils
- Pitt Pastel pencils
- Pitt Graphite Crayons e.g. art.nr. 129902, 129905
- Graphite Pure pencil art.nr. 1173…
- all mechanical pencils
- all mechanical pencil refills; coloured and lead ones
- jumbo lead pencils
- graphite and polymer lead
- indelible pencils (Kopierstifte)
- Albrecht Dürer watercolour marker
- regular erasers, kneadable erasers, pencil erasers
- all Pitt Artist products
- Pastel crayon Polychromos
- Polychromos pastels (art. nr. 128 …)
- tortillion / blending stump/ estompe/ Papierwischer
- soft pastels
- oil pastel crayons
- foldable watercup
- charcoal, natural Pitt/ Zeichenkohle
- charcoal (zeichenkohle)
- graphite chalk/crayon (Graphitkreide)
- natural charcoal art.nr. 129114, 129116, 129118, 129122
- compressed charcoal (Reißkohle) art.nr. 129906, 129903, 129900, 129913, 129916
- sanguine crayon (Rötelkreide)
- Creative Studio pastels
- Creative Studio oil pastels
- sharpener
- ruler
- Pitt Monochrome
- Ecco Pigment
- Grip lead pencils and mechanical pencils
- Art & Graphic Water Brush
- Goldfaber Coloured Pencils
- Goldfaber Aqua Watercolour Pencils
- Oil Colours (Creative Studio)
- oil paint (tempera)
- Creative Studio – watercolour paint in pans
- watercolour starter set in tubes
- Synthetic brushes (art. nr. 481600)
- Broadpen
- all ink
- Graf von Faber-Castell inks
- Faber-Castell ink
- (ink) converter
- Grip fountain pen
- pastel textmarker
- metallic textmarker
- textliner 48
- metallic textliner
- notebooks DinA5 and DinA6
- biros
- biro lead
- Fineschreiber 1511
- Grip marker (flipchart, whiteboard, textmarker pens, permanent marker)
- Grip Textmarker & Textliner
- Multimark marker
- all Uni-Ball products (attention: Faber-Castell is the distributor not the manufacturer; so regard the information as ingredients based only)
- felt pen and double-sided felt pens (Faserschreiber)
- T-Shirt marker
- Jumbo Grip neon
- all chalk (alle Kreiden)
- Connector Deckfarben (opaque paint in pans)
- wax crayons art.nr. 122540, 120010, 120024
- thermoplastic wax crayons art. nr. 122540, 120404, 120405
Source: mail contact