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Today I wrote to companies that offer pastels. A big thank you to Peter for providing me with a list of manufacturers and information about their products, he gathered. Of the six companies, I only knew one, Art Spectrum, who didn’t react to my first mail back in March. Let’s see whether they will reply this time.

Here are the six companies and the products I asked them about:

Unison Colour Ltd – soft pastels
Uart – sanded pastel paper, mounted boards
Art Spectrum – soft pastels, Aqua Brush, Colourfix, Artist’s Gouache
Mount Vision Pastels – pastels, waterproof inks
Jackson’s – square soft pastels, handmade soft pastels
Terry Ludwig Pastels – pastels

As to the other companies, nobody has replied so far. (only has been a couple of days so far)

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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.

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UART pastel paper not vegan

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