UK Vegan Hair Salons (everywhere but London)
Welcome to your ultimate guide to vegan-friendly hair salons across the UK. If you’re interested in vegan hair salons within London, I’ll be putting that in a separate blog post. For now, I thought it would be best to focus on those outside of London – as I promise you there are far more than you first thought.
I’d like to thank my followers for sending in all of their favourite vegan-friendly salons and helping to put together this list. If you have any more to recommend, please pop me a message over on @veganbeautygirl and I’ll work to add them in. Extra helpful if you can let me know which products they use and whether they’re fully vegan or just have vegan options!
I’ve tried to include which brands a salon uses if it’s clear online, as I know some may like to avoid Aveda or Pureology. Although these brands themselves are cruelty-free – they have parent companies (Estee Lauder and L’Oreal respectively) that do test on animals. If you are really selective about the brands you want at your salon (I would be too!), please give the salon a call and check what they use before you book.
Salons
Please double check when booking that these salons are able to offer vegan services as their offerings and products may have changed since I first published this blog post.
Bristol
- JamesB Hair (Bedminster) – prides itself on being a gender neutral, judgment free salon which uses cruelty-free products and has a sustainable focus. Ask for vegan services when booking.
Cambridgeshire
- ReFresh (Petersfield) – a lifestyle salon focusing on combining organic, eco-friendly and vegan practices with a modern salon experience. They even have options for vegan straightening systems and vegan perms.
- Melanie Richards Hair Salon (Peterborough) – this salon uses cruelty-free Paul Mitchell products to deliver vegan-friendly hair services. Though it’s worth noting that they are not a fully vegan/cruelty-free salon as they use Elemis (non-CF) for their facials and massages.
Cardiff
- R J M Hair (Cardiff) – this salon uses vegan and cruelty-free products as well as having gender neutral pricing.
Cornwall
- House of Hellcat (Penzance) – Not just vegan, this Penzance salon is also plastic free!
Derbyshire
- Ferne Alexandra Salon (Derby) – Ferne Alexandra is Derbys first Vegan hair salon- a quirky, cosy Aveda (fully vegan + cruelty-free but owned by non-CF Estee Lauder) hair and beauty salon located just on the outskirts of the city centre. The salon uses brands such as Aveda, Arbonne and Weleda.
- The Vegan Hair Room (Derby) – a vegan hair salon which includes a good choice of hair treatments.
Devon
- The Roots Foundation (Exeter) – the UK’s 1st vegan barber shop (Est. Sept 2017) which doubles as a social space.
East Sussex
- Cuttlefish Eco Salon (Brighton, Lewes) – a sustainable salon that uses only vegan products and is rated highly for their curly hair services.
- WhiP Salon (Brighton) – their core values are sustainability, inclusivity and creativity. They’re a vegan salon that uses organic products from Evo and Oway. They have a genderless policy servicing barnets from all backgrounds including styling, cutting and colouring for afro hair.
Essex
- Salon Messina (Rayleigh) – the Leigh-on-Sea salon Earth Bar (I’ve used their services before and loved them!) have relocated and are now based in this Rayleigh salon. Ask for vegan services when booking.
Glasgow
- Peach Palace (Glasgow) – a funky vegan-friendly and cruelty-free salon in the heart of Glasgow.
Gloucestershire
- The Ruby Key (Cheltenham) – this salon only uses natural, cruelty free, vegan hair products which are good for you and the environment.
Greater Manchester
- Vanilla Tramp (Manchester) – mostly vegan salon, just ask for vegan services when booking.
- Love Hair (Urmston) – a cute, instagrammable salon with vegan friendly, luxury hair care and guilt-free pampering.
- Gronn Eco Salon (Bury) – an entirely vegan salon which even goes so far as to have a vegan cleaner, insurance company and a vegan eco luxe store in salon too.
Leicestershire
- Genesis (Leicester) – an organic vegan unisex salon in Oadby/Leicester providing a bespoke full salon service with over 20 years of professional expertise for all hair types inc Afro Caribbean, Cutting, Colour, Balayage, Hair Extensions and OLAPLEX salon treatments.
Merseyside
- C-Saw Hair (Birkenhead) – Cruelty free and vegan salon working towards becoming zero waste and plastic free.
Northumberland
- Finch Salon (Whitley Bay) – an eco-friendly, sustainable and gender-neutral hair salon which uses eco-friendly, cruelty-free Kevin Murphy products. Ask for vegan services when booking.
Oxfordshire
- Pulchra (Oxford) – Oxford’s first 100% organic, vegan and cruelty-free beauty salon. Their own Pulchra Oxford skin and body care range is vegan certified and cruelty-free internationally approved.
Somerset
- B Hairdressing (Bath) – a cruelty-free, vegan + gender neutral salon.
- Blow Salon (Bath) – an organic, ethical, socially conscious, cruelty free, independent hairdressers using Oway and Evo products. Ask for vegan services when booking.
Southampton
- The Organic Hair Lounge (Southampton) – Southampton’s first fully vegan hair salon. Treatments range from highlights and balayage, to manicures, massages, lash extensions and much much more!
Suffolk
- The Alchemist (Ipswich) – an eco luxury salon that uses ethical, vegan-friendly beauty brands including Kevin Murphy products. Ask for vegan services when booking.
Swansea
- Jamie Hill (Swansea) – a modern and innovative hair and beauty salon, which uses organic, cruelty-free and vegan-friendly products including Oway and R+Co. Ask for vegan services when booking.
Staffordshire
- Live and Let Dye (Stafford) – a vivid salon which specialises in colour and uses vegan products.
Yorkshire
- Dogobees Eco Hairdressers (York) – a sustainable, eco and vegan friendly salon. A gender neutral space, creating wonderful hair without costing the earth.
- Elan Salons (Northallerton) – this salon uses only the very best in toxic free, organic, eco-friendly products. Ask for vegan services when booking.
- Solo (Hull) – an Aveda salon (Aveda are fully vegan + cruelty-free but owned by non-CF Estee Lauder)
Cannot Recommend
Unfortunately I cannot recommend any salons I noticed were using Davines. This brand was once considered cruelty-free but now resides in a grey-area as they sell in China. Read this Cruelty-Free Kitty blog post to learn more.
- Chris Wood Hair Studio (York)
- Crop Hair Salon (Braintree, Essex)
- Green Mango (Portsmouth)
- Quay Street Collective (Woodbridge, Suffolk)
Please let me know if any other salons on this list are found to use Davines despite offering ‘cruelty-free’ services.
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