It’s World Vegan Day, which kicks off a month-long celebration of all things plant-based.

Maybe you’ve been considering going vegan, or maybe you’ve already started cutting down on the amount of meat and dairy products you eat, whether it’s for environmental or animal cruelty reasons.

But have you considered that it’s not just your diet that needs attention if you want to avoid animal-derived products?

Your bathroom shelf or make-up bag could be full of animal ingredients you didn’t even know about.

If you’re one of the thousands of people who’ve decided to cut out meat, dairy, eggs and all other animal-derived foods from your diet, you might not yet have considered that the products on your bathroom shelf don’t necessarily adhere to your new lifestyle.

Animal ingredients in cosmetics aren’t always easy to spot, but more and more companies are committing to remove them, and that can benefit not only those creatures, but also us humans too.