Are y’all ready for some proper holiday pampering and TLC? Me too!
VBR has teamed up with derma e, one of my all-time favorite vegan skincare companies, for a special holiday gift basket giveaway! Yahooooooooey!
Get excited ’cause the derma e beauty products in this deluxe gift basket are sick! Seriously, I’m totally jels that I can’t enter [...]
Soulstice Spa, a vegan and cruelty-free company, has an exquisite line of natural body products and non-toxic nail polishes (i.e. free of toluene, formaldehyde, and dibutyl phthalate) that you’re gonna wanna get your hands on!
I’d like to quickly say that I’ve been rockin’ their concrete grey-blue Manchester shade (btw, I ♥ how all of the colors are city-inspired), and [...]
List of goods:
Healing Waters Salt Soak, $20
Strawberry Hedgehog Peridot Perfection Soap, $8
Burnt vanilla soy candle from The Soap and Paper Factory, $18
Bonding Over Beauty by Erika Katz, $14.95
Smashbox Photo Finish Hydrating Primer, $42
C.O. Bigelow Ultra Mentha Lip Shine, $7.50
What are some of your favorite vegan things?
Calling all soapaholics! If you love pampering yourself with the most deluxe, heavenly, beautiful-smelling, all-natural soap—get ready to freak out!
In case y’all haven’t been clued into my obsession with Strawberry Hedgehog, checkity check check it (here: ♥, ♥ & ♥)!
Btw, I recently got to sample some of Tracy’s top-selling magical soap creations: Sweet Orange-Clove, Lavender-Vanilla, Sparkling Sapphire and Peridot [...]
So my boo and I recently signed up to run a half-marathon this October (with the PETA Pack), and I have to be honest, we have been slacking on getting in shape! Eeks!
I’m going to kick my keester into high gear starting this week though (promise). ← For realsies! Next time you see me, you [...]
I’ve got some new favorite vegan goodies! Check ‘em out! xx
(pssst, there’s a contest at the end of the video, so be sure to enter to win some awesome swag!!)
The Goods:
Amy Sacks Designer Eyewear, $90 each
Manic Panic Collection’s Sooo ’80s Lipstick, $8 each
Beauty Without Cruelty Mascara, $24.94
Beauty Without Cruelty Cherry Blossom Lipstick, $14.95
Organic Splendor Foundation, [...]
I was recently sent a sample of Maya Essentials’ Rose and Olive Deep Facial Cleanser, and I have to be honest, the “olive oil” ingredient freaked me out a bit. I was like, “Is this going to be super slick and greasy, impossible to wash off and cause me to break out?”
Then I thought back [...]
Did you catch my recent “Favorite Vegan Things” video? If not, then you missed my review of Sun Chlorella Cream. It’s unlike any other wrinkle cream I’ve ever tried. It goes on luxuriously smoothly, it’s intensely hydrating, it’s paraben-free and propylene-free, and it contains Chlorella Pyrenoidosa extract, Grapefruit Seed extract, Artemisia Capillaris extract, and Clove Flower [...]
Johnny Concert Glamour is giving VBR readers the opportunity to name and WIN their newest vegan, yellow, organic eyeliner shade pictured here:
All you have to do to enter is leave a comment on this post with a name for this new shade (feel free to be as wild, funky and creative as your beautiful [...]
As you all know, I’m a gigantor fan of The Vegan Collection’s awesome, 100% organic cotton tees – fashion with compassion is the way to go! Well, the beautiful peeps at The Vegan Collection want you to get your hands on one of these tees…for free (if you don’t win, though, you should still totally [...]

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A Few Good Reasons to Go Vegan: • You'll save lives
• You'll live a lot longer
• You'll have more energy
• You'll reduce your risk of cancer
• You'll reduce your risk of heart disease
• You'll have lower blood pressure and cholesterol
• You'll get better nutrition
• You'll lower your chances of getting food poisoning
• You won't be ingesting growth hormones and antibiotics
• You'll get sick less often
• You'll fit into your old jeans
• You'll give your body a spring cleaning
• You'll have healthier skin
• You'll make a strong political statement
• You'll reduce waste and air pollution
• You'll earn good karma points
• You'll save money
• You'll help save the planet
Famous Animal Friendly Quotes "Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends."
~George Bernard Shaw
"You put a baby in a crib with an apple and a rabbit. If it eats the rabbit and plays with the apple, I'll buy you a new car."
~Harvey Diamond
"We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals."
~Immanuel Kant
"I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being."
~Abraham Lincoln
"To become vegetarian is to step into the stream which leads to nirvana."
~Buddha
"To consider yourself an environmentalist and still eat meat is like saying you're a philanthropist who doesn't give to charity"
~Howard Lyman
Ingredients to avoid when shopping for cosmetics and skin care: • Animal products
• Animal by-products
• Animal testing
• Parabens
• Sulfates
• GMOs
• Silicones
• BHA/BHT
• Artificial colors
• Artificial fragrances
• Propylene glycol
• Phthalates
• PEG 15
• Toluene
• Pesticides
• Petroleum
• Mineral Oil
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