Are all soaps vegan

Answer 1

Nope. For example, burt's bee's is a great (mostly natural - you gotta laugh at the "98.7% natural" labels) natural alternative choice for a soap. However, many of them contain beeswax (bee products are non-vegan), honey, glycerin (which can be from animal fats), and milk or milk derivatives. Glycerin shows up in a lot of bar soaps too, especially some of the handmade ones. If it specifically states 'vegetable glycerin' in the ingredients, your glycerin is certified vegan. Old fashioned soap used to be made with animal fats from killed farm animals, and some still make this old fashioned soap. I'm not sure if it's a novelty or if some people like using it sometimes....

In synthetic soaps, you're bound not to find animal ingredients. The fragrance is usually fake, the other ingredients a buncha fake stuff too. If it says it has honey, milk, or beeswax, it definitely isn't vegan. Read the package, research the ingredients - because you never know when an ingredient that sounds like it is totally okay, partly because it doesn't sound like anything you can recognize, is actually of animal origin. One of the easiest ways to do that is to try typing the individual ingredient into a search engine and read about it. Another way is to contact the company by phone or email and speak to someone who can tell you if any of the ingredients are of animal origin. I would research it a bit more for ya, but I quit using most mainstream accepted soaps a long time ago because as a vegan, the demands of my lifestyle pushed me to reconsider a lot of other things in my life and choose natural, organic and environmentally sustainable choices.