Victory! Companies Ban Badger-Hair Brushes After Shocking PETA Investigation

Posted on 22 March 2021 at 12:00AM by PETA

After PETA shared a horrifying video exposé of China’s badger-hair brush industry, Procter & Gamble – which owns The Art of Shaving – quickly agreed to stop sourcing badger-hair brushes immediately.

BREAKING: A new PETA investigation reveals that badgers were illegally taken from the wild and violently killed on Chinese badger-hair farms for makeup, shaving and paintbrushes.

TAKE ACTION: https://t.co/9OfID6pzay pic.twitter.com/L92lHaj26B

— PETA Asia (@PETAAsia) September 19, 2018

Since hearing about PETA’s investigation, nearly 100 brands have said NO to this bloody business, including Edgewell Personal Care, the owner of brands such as Wilkinson Sword, Schick, and Skintimate.

See the full list here:

1Beauty.us
Baxter of California
Beau Brummell
Beauty4Pros
Bestt Liebco
Bevel
Bob Ross, Inc.
Bonanza
Braun Brush
Bulldog
Caswell-Massey
Claudio Riaz
Cremo
Crown
Czech & Speake
The Executive Shaving Co.
Fine Accoutrements
Floris London
FM Brush Company
French Kiss Cosmetics
Garden City Essentials
GENTS/GBS
The Good Liver
Grooming Lounge
Jack Black
Kent Brushes
L’Oréal Group
LovelySkin
MinWax
Morphe
My Makeup Brushes
NARS Cosmetics
The New York Shaving Company
Olivina Men
Penhaligon’s
Personna
Phoenix Shaving
Pomades
Procter & Gamble (The Art of Shaving)
Prospector Co.
Purdy
Royal Brush Manufacturing
RoyalShave
Schick
SHANY Cosmetics
Sherwin-Williams
Silver Brush Limited
Skintimate
The Stache
The Executive Shaving Co.
The Good Liver
The New York Shaving Company
The Stache
The Vermont Country Store
Unique Bargains
Universal Beauty
Valspar
Van Der Hagen
The Vermont Country Store
Wilde & Harte
Wilkinson Sword

Originally published September 24, 2018.

PETA’s investigation—which is the first of its kind and encompasses Chinese badger-hair farms and live markets visited as recently as August—shows workers beating crying badgers over the head with anything that they can find, including a chair leg, before slitting their throats.

PETA documented that one animal continued to move for a full minute after his or her throat was cut and that another was missing a foot, which the farm owner attributed to a fight with a badger caged nearby. Animals on the farms were held in tiny wire cages exposed to the elements, and the stressful conditions often led to injuries and severe psychological disorders.

Animals killed for their skin, fur, and hair value their own lives just as humans do and don’t want to die.

Humans may look different from badgers, but when it comes to important qualities, such as the ability to feel excitement, create family bonds, cherish life, and experience pain, we’re all the same.

Badgers are extremely social animals who, in nature, construct elaborate underground burrow systems, some of which are centuries old and have been inhabited by many generations of the same clan. They are fastidious and have separate rooms for sleeping and giving birth as well as designated outside “bathroom” areas. Just like humans, these living beings deserve to enjoy their complex lives as nature intended, not inside a filthy cage while awaiting a cruel and painful death.

You Can Help Save Badgers Right Now

There’s no reason to use animal-hair brushes, especially when so many high-quality alternatives are available. For the sake of badgers suffering on farms, please, buy only synthetic brushes.

Using our petition below, Dick Blick Art Materials to drop badger-hair brushes immediately in favor of cruelty-free synthetic ones:

Help Ban Badger-Hair Brushes