[sample] When I think about it, unless specifically stated on the packaging, I assume that all hair brushes are non animal hair. I know that there are still a few animal hair brushes (especially shaving brushes) knocking about but I’d never actively choose it.
I’m super fussy about brushes – I usually use a Moroccan Oil round styling brush and a favourite Daniel Galvin brush (known as ‘the good brush’ in our house and so loved I’ve got 3 of them). These new brushes (vegan) from Kent arrived just I was about to wash and blow dry my hair so I put them through their paces.
The Medium Round Brush (£11) has good grip for a decent straightening pull-through but enough glide that it’s not uncomfortable. I like the fact that it’s static resistant because inexplicably, occasionally I get monster static! I don’t know what makes one day different from another but it happens to Lucy too – usually everything is fine but out of the blue along comes the electric! The best cure for static is water but if your hair, like mine, curls up even if there’s a distant drop of rain, it’s not really an option. The second brush is the Nylon Flat Pin, £10, which I think would make a good kid’s brush because the pins are far enough apart that they don’t get tuggy. It’s actually ideal for my hair type, so if you’re loose curly, wavy or straight, you’d do fine with it. If you’re more prone to tugs, perhaps not, because you need something more firm and tighter bristled to get through. They’re all HERE with several others in the vegan category to choose from.
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Thanks for posting.
Sometimes I think the “vegan friendly” label means about as much as the “pure” label. I would really love to know what makes these brushes particularly vegan friendly as opposed to just not using animal bristles? Does it use any animal products at all (for example, in the glues, dyes etc). Are the materials sustainable/recyclable?
I double checked on the Kent brushes website – and not an iota of info that I could easily find (5 mins of searching) about the vegan -friendliness of it. The very fact that the brand does use animal bristles for some of its other brushes would, for some vegans, mean that the brand is not vegan friendly.
Yes, you’re right – but they’ve launched only into Boots for the time being so I expect when they’re live on the Kent site there will be more information. I think there is some brand confusion about what constitutes vegan – a bigger deal for a brand that’s associated with animal hair than for brands that have never used it who probably wouldn’t think to market as vegan. There’s no mention that they’re either sustainable or recyclable but as I say, full info on the brushes isn’t up on their site. I agree that it would raise questions that there is animal hair use in other products and I don’t think they’ve fully thought through the term vegan and what that actually constitutes. Thank you Catherine for raising these points, it was lax of me not to investigate and ask those questions myself so I’m grateful to you. x