How To Help Animals : Anywhere, Anytime For FREE!

• SurveyMonkey:  For each questionare completed, this survey website will donate 50 cents towards a charity of your choice.

• Petition Websites: Creating a profile on petition websites is both a fast and easy way to help animals. Recommended websites:

1. Change.org's Animals section.
2. Care2petitions Animal Rights section. 
3. ForceChange.com's Animals section.
4. AnimalPetitions.org 
5. TakePart's Wildlife section.

• Action Alerts and E-Newsletters: Send the latest petitions and animal news straight to your inbox by signing up for various animal organization's e-newsletters. Some suggestions below, but not limited to:

1. International Fund For Animal Welfare (IFAW)
2. In Defense of Animals (IDA)
3. American Wild Horse Preservation
4. People for The Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) 
5. The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA)
6. The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS)
7. Center for Biological Diversity
8. The World Wildlife Fund (WWF)
9. Animal Legal Defense Fund (ALDF)
10. Compassion Over Killing (COK)
11. Last Chance for Animals (LCA) 

• PETA2 Street Team: Directed towards teens and young adults,  PETA2 Street Team members can advocate for animals while collecting points towards redeeming free PETA2 merchandise. 

• Shop with Amazon Smile and automatically donate a portion of your purchase towards a charity of your choice. 

• Charity Credit Cards: Donate a percentage of your purchases towards an animal charity of your choice by switching to a charity credit card. 

• Social Media Advocacy: Simply follow, like and share content from an organizations Facebook ,Twitter, Instagram and social media accounts to spread awareness. 

For more ways to help animals, click here!

Ordering Vegan At Starbucks

The majority of drinks offered at Starbucks can be made vegan. Equally exciting, Starbucks added coconut milk to their menu in February, now providing customers with two milk alternatives!

1. Choose Soymilk or Coconut milk

2. Skip the whip cream!

3. Avoid the following ingredients:

• Java chips (contains milk ingredients)
• Caramel drizzle ( contains skimmed milk)
• Protein powder (Undisclosed full ingredient list, likely to contain milk ingredients)

4. Not all drinks can be made vegan.

• The fall favorite Pumpkin Spice Latte is a no go, ( Spoiler: It doesn't even contain real pumpkin!) Love pumpkin? Try making your own recipe at home. 
• Note: Other Holiday specials may contain animal ingredients! Upon release, check ingredients before purchasing. 
• Light Frappuccino drinks: All light syrups contain milk.
• Caramel Brule' syrup contains nonfat dry milk. 
• White Mocha syrup contains milk ingredients. 
• Hazelnut Machiato: Syrup contains milk.
• Caramel Machiato: Syrup contains milk. 

5. Vegan syrups:

• Caramel ( In Frappuccios, hot or cold, but not the Caramel machiato)
• Hazlenut (In Frappuccios, hot or cold, but not the Hazelnut machiato)
• Vanilla
• Peppermint
• Toffee Nut
• Strawberry sauce base in Strawberries and Cream Frappuccino, bug free since 2012!

6. Enjoy!

Vanilla Late with coconut milk

* current list of vegan friendly ingredients and drinks may change, so make sure to always double check ingredients before purchasing!*

Cruelty Free And Vegan Drugstore Makeup!

Many consumers worry that cruelty free (and especially vegan) makeup comes with a higher price tag. Luckily, many drugstore brands offer inexpensive beauty products with vegan options. Hooray!

• E.L.F-  The vast majority of E.L.F products are vegan, except for a few containing beeswax and some animal hair makeup brushes. The best part? E.L.F's prices are amazingly cheap, with products starting at just one dollar!  

• WET N' WILD- Mostly vegan, some items contain carmine and beeswax. Current vegan product list seen here. Please note, companies may change formulas of current products, and debut new ones as well, make sure to always double check product labels if you are concerned about animal ingredients. 

• PHYSICIANS FORMULA- Offers hypoallergenic cosmetics free of harsh chemicals, with vegan options! (Be aware that the brush applicators are made from goat hair.)

• ECO TOOLS: This eco-friendly company provides vegan makeup tools, including synthetic makeup brushes! Many companies, including cruelty free companies, sell brushes made from animal hair and fur. Even if they claim that it was ethically sourced, it is impossible to prove such claims. Lasting longer since they are not made of organic material, synthetic brushes are a win for both consumers and animals!

• PIXI-Found exclusively at Target, Pixi offers many vegan items including some of my favorite vegan mascaras, Lash Booster Mascara and Large Lash Mascara. 

• PACIFICA- (100% Vegan!) This all vegan company not only offers cruelty free makeup, they also carry nail polish, moisturizers, cleansers and perfume!  

*Please note, all reccomendations follow my cruelty free criteria.*