Discover the Vegan Beauty Box That’s Worth Every Penny

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If you love discovering new beauty products, beauty boxes are a fun little luxury. Not only do they offer an affordable way to try new products, but you also get curation and home delivery out of the deal. Lots of bang for your beauty buck. But there’s a problem: if you’re committed to clean, cruelty-free, vegan products, the viable box options start to seriously dwindle. Thankfully there’s a stellar vegan beauty box that meets all those criteria and more: Petit Vour. (Not a sponsored post – just fan mail.)

What’s fun about vegan beauty boxes?

Oh, so much. Whether you’re a novice in skincare and makeup or you know all the ins and outs but love the discovery aspect, there’s a lot to love about vegan beauty boxes. Beyond checking all the ethics and efficacy boxes, here are some key perks:

• Discover unique new brands and products from the comfort of home
• Expand your knowledge of skincare and makeup by trying an array of different products, without paying full price
• Avoid confusing or overwhelming choices, and instead get a curated selection of products to experiment with
• Save money on items you’d otherwise have to pay full price to test out.
• Give a perfect ‘gift that keeps on giving’ – whether for yourself or for a loved one

What’s special about Petit Vour

Petit Vour is a marketplace dedicated to clean, vegan, cruelty-free beauty. It was founded in 2012, and the name Petit Vour was inspired by the beautiful little french pastries – petit four – with a ‘v’ for vegan. Petit Vour is all about discovery, indulgence, and fun.

Frustrated with the nonexistence of a shop that reflected both contemporary style and progressive ideals, we set out to create the space ourselves. We wanted an uplifting, authentic retail brand that embodied our sophisticated style and joyful spirit and made shopping cruelty-free effortless.

Petit Vour offers highly curated products from lovely brands, both via their online store (where you can purchase things a la carte) and through their vegan beauty subscription boxes. If you have high standards for beauty products but love the convenience of a one-stop shop or super fun boxes, this is the site for you. Here’s what you can expect from everything you find on Petit Vour:

• Always cruelty-free and vegan
• Vetted for performance and efficacy
• Clean and non-toxic. Read about their standards here.
• Ethical manufacturing
• Beautiful products that will look lovely on your vanity

These standards make for an easy and joyful shopping experience. It’s also fun to receive a vegan subscription box whose quality and integrity you can be sure of. (I won’t name names but many of the well-known beauty boxes don’t even guarantee that their products are cruelty-free, let alone vegan, clean, and easy on the eyes.)

Many other vegan beauty boxes have, unfortunately, come and go (including Kinder, Better Beauty Box, and Benevolent Beauty Box, womp womp), but the fact that Petit Vour has been around for so long speaks to their quality. 

Petit Vour’s vegan beauty box options

1. The Beauty Box

This is their basic tier and costs $21/month. You’ll receive 4 products, always valued between $60-$100. You can purchase these boxes on a month-by-month basis (cancel anytime) or opt for a recurring gift subscription, which you pre-pay for 3 or 6 months. You can review prior months’ boxes here to get a sense: April, May, June, July. My two cents: this tier is fine, but the stand-out choice is…

2. The PV Plus Beauty Box

I highly recommend this option. This is PV’s more premium tier and costs $25/month. You’ll receive 4-7 travel and full size items valued at over $100. The key is that all items in the PV Plus Beauty Box were fan favorites from prior beauty boxes, so you’re getting the best of the best for only $4 more than their standard box. I’m honestly not sure how they swing this, but the value is wild. See below for my two most recent PV Plus boxes.

3. Curated Boxes

Petit Vour also offers themed boxes, the exact contents of which you’ll know when you order them. They’re built around a core idea (e.g. Date Night Essentials or Vegan Makeup Starter Kit). These are ideal if you or a gift recipient love the value of a beauty box but prefer to know exactly what you’re getting beforehand.

Drawbacks of Petit Vour

Despite my enthusiasm for Petit Vour, in the name of journalism I shall offer some potential drawbacks to consider as you decide whether it’s right for you (or your gift recipient). Most would apply to any beauty box, but they’re worth calling out:

• Unless you’re clear on the slightly nitty grittier steps of a solid beauty routine, it may require a bit of research to understand when/how/where to use the products you receive in conjunction with other products. (e.g. Can I use hyaluronic acid and Vitamin C serum? In what order? How often should I use them if I’m using both? etc.)
• Some products will be misses. Petit Vour does have a “Beauty Box Profile,” section you can complete within your account on their, which is a great, but nonetheless there will always be some products that suit you better/worse/not at all in any given box.
• You may reach a point where you feel overloaded by ‘stuff’ and need to cancel your subscription.
• PV’s shipping is a bit wonky: you’re charged the first of the month for your box, your order is confirmed via email about 2 weeks later, it ships about a week after that, and then it arrives sometimes a week after that. So if you’re counting on your box arriving quickly, be forewarned that often it won’t.
• As alluded to previously, I think PV’s regular Beauty Box is just fine. In reviewing previous boxes, the offerings look acceptable, if not overly exciting. Contrast that with their PV Plus Beauty Box, which feels to me like it’s bursting with value.

As with any beauty subscription box: if you’re relatively new to beauty, are still refining and expanding upon your routine, or just love discovering new things, you’ll likely enjoy Petit Vour. If you’re a beauty aficionado with a set routine who is clear on what your skin needs and wants, you may find that getting an array of new products each month doesn’t serve you as well.

Other vegan beauty box options

Vegan Cuts

Vegan Cuts has done an amazing job building out a vegan subscription box business. Per their Instagram, “300k vegan and cruelty-free boxes shipped!” (I was once gifted a subscription to their Snack Box and it was an exceedingly fun and delicious experience.) Vegan Cuts’ Beauty Box starts at $30/month, and the price goes down the more months you sign up for. You’ll receive 4+ full size or ‘deluxe’ items in skin care, body care, and makeup, valued at $60-$110+. You can view previous boxes here, towards the bottom of the page, to get a sense of the boxes.

Who will love this vegan beauty box? Those interested in more indie, new-to-the-scene brands that may skew a bit more towards overtly vegan and/or natural messaging and packaging. Relative to Petit Vour, there is (to my eye) less emphasis on product aesthetics in VeganCuts’ curation, so if you’re prone to displaying products on your vanity this may be a consideration.

LoveGoodly

LoveGoodly has two tiers of their vegan beauty boxes, both of which come every other month: Essential and VIP. The Essential subscription is $42/month (sometimes discounted to $35) and the VIP subscription is $60/month (sometimes discounted to $49). They also offer prepaid subscription box plans for gifting and single boxes if you don’t want to subscribe. You can get a sense of past subscription boxes here. Unique to LoveGoodly is that in addition to beauty items, most boxes feature lifestyle or wellness products. Past examples include a candle, a book of affirmations, an immunity drink, and a wood bowl and spoon.

Who will love this vegan beauty box? Those who enjoy a mix of beauty and lifestyle items, and those who may feel overwhelmed by a once-monthly subscription and prefer something bimonthly. 

What is clean beauty?

This post refers to ‘clean’ products at various points. What exactly does that mean? Clean beauty can be a confusing and sometimes contentious topic. If you’ve got a few minutes, I have an in-depth post on this topic here. But here’s a summation in 5 bullets points.

• The idea of clean beauty is appealing: swapping products with questionable ingredients for non-toxic options that are better for our health.
• In practice, ‘clean beauty’ doesn’t have an agreed upon definition or standards, so various brands will use it as a marketing term to sell more products, regardless of whether they have any claims to back it up.
• Some sources, like LabMuffin, argue that clean beauty is a scam. To oversimplify her stance: there are no ‘clean’ and ‘dirty’ ingredients, but rather the dose makes the poison. Modern day products are extensively tested for risks to our health, so the premise of ‘clean’ is innately misleading.
• There remains hot debate on the topic and whether clean beauty holds merit or not. I highly recommend heading to the comments section of this New York Times article to get a taste of the back and forth. Lots of good points made on both sides.
• You may emerge from this chaotic topic and land where I have, which is to embrace the precautionary principle: it may be better to avoid questionable ingredients just in case. There are lots of sites out there (Petit Vour, Credo Beauty, and Detox Market, among others) where you can find products that promise a higher standard.