I emailed Jean Paul Gaultier to ask if their cosmetics are vegan, and found out that bees are not animals and that they're appropriate for vegetarians.
I emailed Jean Paul Gaultier to ask if their cosmetics are vegan, and found out that bees are not animals and that they're appropriate for vegetarians.
I think honey and Wax qualify as vegan, the bees make the stuff anyway and the honeybees we have would die out if we'd stop caring for them, they would probably die out and without these bees we would have problems with food production in general, especially in areas with a lack of natural pollinators.
Apart from it obviously not being vegan - others jumped that train already - honey bee industry is actually pretty bad for the environment. Especially in areas with a lack of natural pollinators the competition honey bees place further destabilizes the ecosystem, even worsening the insect die-off.
(That's not the article I learned it from, just the first one I found on that matter. Feel free to recommend better ones.)
Honey and wax don't typically qualify as vegan, but I've always found that to be absolutely ridiculous. Don't feel bad for eating honey, they can literally leave at any time - and occasionally do.