If your skin is delicate or easily irritated, or if you have an existing skin condition, it’s probably wise to avoid retinol products. Bakuchiol is a plant-based, vegan-friendly alternative to retinol.  Like retinol, the Bakuchiol in Beeautify’s Oil Serum has excellent anti-ageing properties.

As with most choices, there’s a sliding scale of impact and where you choose to sit is up to you. Depending on how strict your definition of veganism is, honey and honey products just might not be off-limits.

Each honey is a complex mix of some 200 compounds, natural enzymes and the flora unique to its region. Because of this, it’s only relatively recently that some especially potent honeys have been discovered in New Zealand and the remote wilderness of Western Australia – manuka honey and the newly unveiled jarrah honey.