Get Summer Ready With These Cruelty-Free Products

Your lips have zero melanin, which means they actually burn faster than the rest of you. Sun Bum's mineral lip balm uses non-nano zinc oxide for broad-spectrum UVA and UVB protection, so you're not just moisturizing, you're giving your lips full bodyguard detail. Toss it in your beach bag, your car, your pocket. Honestly, just buy three.

DEET has been the default bug spray ingredient since the 1940s and it absorbs into your bloodstream faster than you can spread your picnic blanket. Meow Meow Tweet skips all that with a plant-based blend that mosquitoes absolutely hate. It also moonlights as a deodorant and foot spray, which is either brilliant multitasking or a very specific kind of summer emergency preparedness.

Your deodorant has been coasting all winter but summer is basically a stress test for every deodorant you've ever trusted. Kiss My Face's aluminum-free stick is up for the challenge with probiotics, witch hazel, coconut oil and a botanical lineup that includes grapefruit seed extract, rosemary and sage, which is more effort than most people put into lunch.

Most body sunscreens feel like you've applied a light coating of paste to your skin, but Naked Sundays SPF50 glides on like an actual moisturizer. It's loaded with Kakadu Plum, a native Australian superfood packed with Vitamin C that fights free radicals while you're lazing around in your lawn chair. Zero white cast, zero stickiness, zero excuses for skipping sunscreen this summer.

So you fell asleep in the sun and spent the next three days dramatically narrating your sunburn suffering to anyone who would listen. Loaded with aloe vera and calendula blossom, this Sun Rescue Cream is the cream you need to have waiting at home. It's a significant upgrade from getting Noxzema slapped on your shoulders by a parent who meant well but mostly just made you smell like a medicine cabinet.

If you'd rather skip the lobster phase entirely, these bronzing drops infused with vitamin E and sunflower seed oil gives you a convincing sun-kissed glow without a single UV ray taking credit for it. Mix a few drops into your moisturizer for a buildable, customizable warmth that works on your face and body. It's a temporary tinted serum, so it will politely see itself out the moment you reach for your cleanser.

Summer hair is basically a full-time job between the humidity, the sweat and the salt water that somehow ends up in your roots when you didn't go near the ocean. Aussie's talc-free, butane-free dry shampoo absorbs oil and dirt at the roots without leaving behind a chalky white mess. Your secret that it's been three days is safe with us.

Somewhere between the beach, the pool and that one long afternoon you forgot your hat, your hair has started to feel like it belongs on a scarecrow. Giovanni's leave-in conditioner works certified organic botanicals into every strand to restore moisture, body and the general will to live for your hair.

Razor burn in the summer is a special kind of misery that nobody talks about enough. eos's non-foaming shave cream packs shea butter, shea oil and aloe into a rich formula that protects skin close enough to actually prevent it. It also doubles as an in-shower lotion, which means it's doing more work than most people you know.

Summer and makeup have a complicated relationship, with humidity being that third wheel who shows up and sweats on everything. NYX's setting spray uses film formers and actual maple syrup for a grip that keeps everything fade and transfer resistant without the sticky finish that makes you feel like your face is wearing a raincoat.