(Updated October 2020) Over the past few years, Glossier has achieved cult beauty status.
The New York City-based brand was founded by former Vogue staffer Emily Weiss. Weiss wasn’t happy with her experience with beauty brands. She explained to Business Insider that she felt they were always talking “at” her and lacked a genuine story.
It led her to create the beauty-focused blog Into the Gloss in 2010. The brand gained a strong following fast, with an average of 1.5 million visitors a month. Drawing from her site’s active comments section, Weiss founded Glossier in 2014 to give consumers the products they were looking for.
Are Glossier Products Vegan?
Glossier is a cruelty-free brand, but not all of its products are vegan. Its Super Glow and Super Bounce serums were vegan, but the formula was updated in March 2019. According to the brand, it now uses xanthan gum (a thickening agent and stabilizer) processed with an egg-derived enzyme.
The brand initially offered makeup for a “barely there” look. But in early 2019, it introduced Glossier Play, a vegan-friendly makeup range featuring bolder lip colors, glitter, nail polish, and a new brow pen. Glossier now offers a number of vegan products ranging from cleansers and body washes to fragrance and skincare.
22 Cruelty-Free and Vegan Beauty Buys From Glossier
To help you streamline your vegan beauty product search, we’ve rounded up all of Glossier’s vegan beauty products. Everything listed here will make any cruelty-free makeup lover swoon.
1. Zit Stick
Glossier’s portable Zit Stick’s claim to fame is this: the stick can decrease a pimple’s size in as little as 3 hours (!). You’ll see these lightning-fast results if you use the product up to 3 times a day and at the first sign of a pimple. The Zit Stick contains a blend of 5% Benzoyl Peroxide, Tea Tree Oil, and Capryloyl Salicylic Acid, a “less irritating derivative of Salicylic Acid.”
Get the Zit Stick on Glossier.
2. Generation G Lip Color
Generation G is Glossier’s take on the just-blotted—without the blot—lipstick trend. The line promises a casual hue with a colorful, yet muted pigment. Unlike your go-to matte lipstick, this lip color will merely boost your natural lip hue. The “diffused, matte goodness” goes on in a “swipe” and comes in 6 gorgeous colors.
Get Generation G on Glossier.
3. Wowder Brush
The Wowder Brush is made from 100 percent synthetic fibers and boasts a “high-grade, high-resistance” performance. The brush’s “fluffy” bristles combined with the brand’s Wowder—Glossier’s matte, shine-cutting powder (number 5 on this list)—provides a “real-skin finish.” The brush can easily reach any area you’d like to target and features a short handle, which provides “maximum control.” The Wowder Brush also comes in a hygienic travel pouch.
Get the Wowder Brush on Glossier.
4. Wowder
Glossier’s Wowder—a vegan powder—can help blur the appearance of pores and set makeup. The powder comes in 3 “sheer” adaptable shades—Light/Medium, Dark/Deep, and Rich. Wowder gets its texture from light-reflecting diamond powder, soft Kaolin clay, and silky vitamin E.
Get Wowder on Glossier.
5. Milky Jelly Cleanser
The Milky Jelly Cleanser has received rave reviews from Glossier fans and other renowned beauty experts. It’s also earned a few notable awards—Allure’s 2016 and 2017 Best of Beauty designation, and one of Cosmopolitan’s 2015 Beauty Awards. The vegan daily face wash gently dissolves any makeup and grime your skin gets coated with during the day. The creamy gel formula is pH-balanced and contains five skin conditioners (poloxamer, rosewater, comfrey root extract, aquaxyl, and pro-vitamin B5). It comes in full-size and mini versions.
Get the Milky Jelly Cleanser on Glossier.
6. Lip Gloss
Glossier’s Lip Gloss boasts a cushion-like feel and a “crystal-clear shine.” It’s free of the gluey and sticky feel most lip glosses tend to have. The lip gloss’ wand features a “fuzzy doe-foot applicator” that allows the user to apply a lightweight layer that has real staying power thanks to the brand’s Gloss-Lock Technology, conditioning polymers, and vitamin E. It recently launched two vegan-friendly colors in Holographic and Red.
Get the Lip Gloss on Glossier.
7. Soothing Face Mist
This simple, hydrating spray can help relieve stressed skin. Its main ingredient is rosewater, a “gentle and natural skin soother.” The beauty spray also features aloe and glycerin. The Soothing Face Mist’s pump also “dispenses an airy, luxurious mist,” with droplets that are “33 percent smaller than the average spray.” Impressive!
Get the Soothing Face Mist on Glossier.
8. Super Pure
Super Pure is Glossier’s potent Niacinamide facial serum. Niacinamide, a B3 vitamin, can help soothe facial redness. Allow this “super” serum to work its magic by applying 3-4 drops to your face; follow with a moisturizer. The vegan serum also contains zinc PCA, an ingredient that helps clear impurities and excess sebum in pores.
Get Super Pure on Glossier.
9. Perfecting Skin Tint
Glossier has the answer to your lightweight skin tint needs. The brand’s perfecting Skin Tint now comes in 12 shades, catering to a diverse range of skin tones. The formula helps mask skin discoloration while still allowing your pores to breathe. The product’s moisturizing tint contains blurring diamond powder, moisturizing glycerin, and lifting Polymer X.
Get the Perfecting Skin Tint on Glossier.
10. Invisible Shield
This cruelty-free sunscreen is the ultimate in sun protection. The vegan water-gel formula is “filled with active microcapsules” that absorb “into skin with no greasy residue and zero white cast.” In addition to helping prevent sun damage, the sunscreen also neutralizes harmful free radicals and keeps pollutants off your skin.
Get the Invisible Shield on Glossier.
11. Body Hero Daily Oil Wash
Glossier’s “water-free” oil cleanser leaves skin soft and supple while protecting its top layer. It features a luxurious seven-oil blend that gently washes away dirt. Coconut, meadowfoam, olive, and soybean oils moisturize the skin; sesame oil soothes skin; grapeseed oil brightens skin, and sunflower seed oil protects the skin’s barrier. The product gets its fresh scent from an orange blossom neroli blend.
Get the Body Hero Daily Oil Wash online.
12. Solution
If you’re looking to improve your skin’s overall appearance, try Glossier’s Solution. Solution is a daily skin exfoliator that can help remove dead skin cells via chemical exfoliation. The product leaves skin cleaner, brighter, and less red with the help of salicylic acid, glycolic acid, lactic acid, gluconolactone, and an anti-stress complex.
Get the Solution on Glossier.
13. Milky Oil Cleanser
Glossier’s Milky Oil cleanser is optimized for removing long-wearing and waterproof makeup without harsh ingredients—especially lipstick and mascara. This moisturizing cleanser combines micellar water, which attracts dirt and makeup, and oil, plus skin-conditioning pro-vitamin B5 and comfrey root extract. Glossier recommends removing makeup with Milky Oil and following up with Milky Jelly.
Get the Milky Oil Cleanser on Glossier.
14. Bubblewrap Lip + Eye Cream
Bubblewrap, Glossier’s first eye and lip cream, is vegan. The two-in-one formula is made with hydrating ingredients like hyaluronic acid, squalane, avocado oil, and blueberry extract to plump the delicate undereye skin and lips.
Get the Bubblewrap Lip + Eye Cream on Glossier.
15. Futuredew
Glossier’s Futuredew is moisturizing, nourishing, and non-greasy. According to the product description, it combines plant-based extracts to make your skin look brighter. Futuredew doesn’t interfere with makeup, it just makes your skin look dewier underneath.
Get Futuredew online here.
16. Glossier Play Vinylic Lip
This high-shine, ultra-pigmented lip vinyl comes in a convenient, mess-free click-pen that allows for precise application. It’s available in six colors: plum, candy pink, terracotta, orange, red, and dark taupe.
Get the Vinylic Lip on Glossier.
17. Glossier Play Niteshine
This liquid highlighter has a buildable formula with an illuminating, foil-like finish that lasts long. It’s said to blend seamlessly into skin, giving depth to cheekbones brow bones, and your Cupid’s bow. It comes in four colors: deep bronze, ochre, pink, and champagne.
Get the Niteshine on Glossier.
18. Brow Flick
For more definition, color, and just generally more brow, Glossier’s Brow Flick eyebrow detailing pen is your new go-to. The strokes are featherlight, so they look realistic and blend in with your existing eyebrows. The Brow Flick pen comes in three different colors: brown, blond, and black.
Get Brow Flick on Glossier.
19. Skywash
This liquid-to-powder finish formula eyeshadow is available in seven different shades—all of which are vegan. The silky, blendable color smooths onto the skin with a doe-foot applicator to add depth to the eyes and provide a vibrant, wash of color.
Get Skywash on Glossier.
20. Pro Tip
Glossier’s Pro Tip liquid eyeliner features a brush tip with flexible fibers and a smudge-resistant formula to provide smooth, precise lines with every swipe. The densely-pigmented formula is long-lasting, providing up to 12 hours of wear.
Get the Pro Tip on Glossier.
21. Exfoliating Bar
Part of the Body Hero range, the Exfoliating Bar is “face-quality skincare” for the rest of your body. The new bar sloughs off dead skin and moisturizes at the same time. It combines finely milled bamboo powder with sunflower seed oil and aloe leaf to lock in moisture.
Get the Exfoliating Bar on Glossier.
22. Body Oil Mist
Also in the Body Hero range, this Neroli-scented dry body oil combines sunflower seed, grapeseed, and oat oil to effectively moisturize. According to the company, sea fennel extract helps to smooth and even out your natural skin tone to improve “radiance.”
Get the Body Oil Mist on Glossier.
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