Please find below a selection of statistics about vegan beauty and household brands products and sales.
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Beauty
Behavioural changes
- A 2021 YouGov survey found 53% of UK adults were not confident in identifying a skincare product that contained ingredients derived from animals. Source
- In 2019, research by Cosmetify found that 9% of British women always buy vegan beauty products and 47% do so more than they used to. Plus, 39% of those who only buy vegan beauty products are not actually vegan. Source
- 36% of non-meat eaters were unaware that makeup can contain animal by-products. Source
Vegan products and business
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In 2023, research from Prophecy Market Insights predicts thee global vegan beauty market to be worth $25.3 billion by 2029. Source
- In 2021, MarketGlass predicted that the global vegan cosmetic industry will be worth a staggering $21.4 billion by the year 2027. In the USA alone, this is estimated to be worth $4.1 billion. Source
- In April 2021, Maryland became the fifth US state to ban animal-tested cosmetics. Source
- A report by Allied Market Research states that the global vegan supplements market was valued at $6.309 billion in 2019 and is projected to reach $13.6 billion by 2028. Source
- Superdrug's own brand vegan cosmetics saw a 750% sales increase in January 2019. Source
- Boots.com reported a 56% increase in vegan-related searches in 2019. Source
- In 2019, Marketing Week reported that between 2014 and 2019, there was a 175% increase in vegan cosmetic launches, globally. Source
- Vegan facial skincare launches almost tripled between 2013 and 2018, rising from 13% of all launches in 2014 to 28% in 2018. Sources: [1], [2]
- The Body Shop sold over three million vegan products in the UK in 2018 – the same year it launched a new range of vegan Body Yogurts – which is the equivalent of one every second. Source
- The sale of vegan prestige beauty products in the UK reported an increase of 38% in the 12-month period between February 2017 and the end of January 2018. Source
Household
- In 2022, vegan dog food brand, OMNI, saw a 600% increase in sales. Source
- In a global survey, 81% of respondents said they would not buy a household product if they knew it (or one of its ingredients) had been tested on animals. 77% of respondents also cited ‘not tested on animals’ as a factor in their decision to buy a cosmetic or household product. Source
- Sales of vegan cleaning products at Tesco increased by 80% in 2019. Source
