animal testing

French Connection offers a number of branded cosmetics, toiletries and fragrance ranges.  These products are available through our own stores or third parties such as Boots or House of Fraser. 

French Connection does not test products or materials on animals, we do not commission such testing by others and we work with our suppliers to encourage the use of alternatives.  However, we recognise that the materials we use may be tested by others, including our suppliers, to meet various legal obligations.  Some of these tests are carried out on behalf of the whole industry.  We are therefore unable to guarantee that ingredients or materials used in our products have not been tested on animals at some time.

All of the products available through Boots plc are manufactured by Boots and are subject to their CSR policy which is reproduced below and available on their website.  FC Body products are manufactured by Broad Oak toiletries and their policy is reproduced below.

Boots Group plc

Animal testing policy

No animal testing of any kind is undertaken or commissioned by Boots Group PLC or its subsidiary businesses.

We recognise that until satisfactory replacements are available, some animal tests will be carried out by others, to meet regulatory requirements and protect public health. These safety tests sometimes involve ingredients used in products manufactured and sold by our subsidiary businesses.

We'd like to see an end to all animal tests and we give financial and technical support to the development and introduction of alternative forms of safety testing.

Broad Oak Toiletries

(FC BODY range)

We manufacture a selection of French connection products fragrances. Although none of the final products are subject to tests on animals, some of our material or packaging suppliers have not ruled out the testing of ingredients where, for safety purposes, it is a legal requirement.

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