Top Rated Cruelty Free Mascara at Sephora

We are rounding up the top rated cruelty free mascara options at Sephora today! To be honest this list surprised me a bit. Some I totally expected, but most were a surprised. I actually haven’t heard of the number one option, but will definitely be picking that up to try sometime soon.

I really love how a lot of these are clean formulas! Some do have non-cf parent companies, but plenty don’t have a parent company.

These have all been reviewed a minimum of 300 times, but we have some that have been reviewed close to 10k times!! So it’s a good mix.

We also have a variety of formulas whether you’re looking for lengthening, curling, separating, etc., and a variety of wand types. Something for everyone!!

Top Rated Cruelty Free Mascara at Sephora

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Smashbox
Super Fan Lash Lengthening Mascara
Cost: $24
Size: .33 oz
Average Review: 4.2/5 stars from over 1.1k reviews
About the Product (from Sephora):

A lengthening mascara that gives you modern, fanned-out volume without any heaviness or clumping.

Additional Notes:

• Volumizing mascara
• Infused with argan and marula oils, leaving lashes feeling conditioned
• Super Fan Mascara creates buildable lift, length, and volume that lasts for up to 12 hours. The 360° Precision double-bristle brush loads product from root to tip, while the soft comb reaches, styles, and reveals lashes you never knew you had. The super black formula keeps lashes looking fuller and thicker without any clumping, smudging, flaking, or heaviness.

Note: Parent company is not cruelty free.

Nine

Ilia
Limitless Lash Lengthening Mascara
Cost: $28
Size: .27 oz
Average Review: 4.2/5 stars from over 2k reviews
About the Product (from Sephora):

A clean, award-winning, cult-favorite mascara that lifts, lengthens, holds curl, and separates with precision.

Additional Notes:

• Mascara that goes to extremes—naturally. This clean mascara weightlessly lifts and lengthens with a dual-sided brush that catches and separates every lash. Made with beeswax and shea butters for flexibility and hold, this flake-free formula lasts yet comes off easily with warm water at night. Limitless Lash Mascara is ophthalmologist-tested, safe for sensitive eyes, and safe for contact lens wearers.

Ingredient Highlights

• Arginine (Keratin): Fortifies and nurtures lashes.
• Shea Butter: Weightlessly conditions lashes.
• Beeswax: Nourishes lashes.

MY Ilia Limitless Lash Mascara REVIEW HERE

Eight

Wander Beauty
Mile High Club Mascara
Cost: $26
Size: .35 oz
Average Review: 4.2/5 stars from over 900 reviews
About the Product (from Sephora):

A one-coat, jet-black, volumizing, and lengthening mascara with precise bristles that grab every lash for a flirty effect.

Additional Notes:

• This mascara is smudge-proof, flake-proof, and water-resistant for up to all-day wear. It’s formulated with a blend of nourishing, lash-loving ingredients. Peach leaf extract and castor oil condition and help strengthen lashes.

Ingredient Highlights:

• Castor Seed Oil: Nurtures and moisturizes lashes.
• Trehalose: Helps support lash strength.
• Peach Leaf Extract: Conditions lashes and helps prevent breakage.

Seven

Lawless
The One & Done Volumizing Mascara
Cost: $25
Size: .4 oz
Average Review: 4.2/5 stars from over 300 reviews
About the Product (from Sephora):

A vegan clean mascara that does it all—volumizes, defines, lengthens, lifts, and wears all day while promoting natural lash growth.

Additional Notes:

• This mascara uses the lighter-weight lacquer tree and rice bran waxes to keep lashes lifted while castor and argan oils promote lash length. It also comes with an elastomer brush that gently grips and combs through lashes for instant volume and elongation while the spherical tip offers lash styling and separation.

Ingredient Highlights:

• Lacquer Tree and Rice Bran Waxes: Act as a lightweight alternative to beeswax that help keep the lashes soft and lifted.
• Castor Oil: Helps grow thicker and longer lashes.
• Argan Oil: Softens and conditions lashes and helps lashes grow thicker.

Six

Bite Beauty
Upswing Full Volume Mascara
Cost: $28
Size: .4 oz
Average Review: 4.3/5 stars from over 800 reviews
About the Product (from Sephora):

A clean, volumizing, vegan, flake-resistant mascara that delivers major lift, length, and curl for supersized lashes.

Additional Notes:

• Powered by vegan tree berry wax, this intense black mascara gives lashes an instant and buildable boost that’s lightweight and smudge resistant. And, with its full-bodied, hourglass-shaped brush, it brings out the best in every lash for double take-worthy definition and lift where you want it.

Ingredient Highlights

• Tree Berry Wax: Grips every lash to help give you buildable yet lightweight volume.

Note: Parent company is not cruelty free.

Five

Hourglass
Unlocked Instant Extensions Lengthening Mascara
Cost: $29
Size: .35 oz
Average Review: 4.3/5 stars from over 1.2k reviews
About the Product (from Sephora):

A vegan mascara that coats your lashes from root to tip for a high-impact, fanned-out finish.

Additional Notes:

• This mascara is the ultimate formula for when more is more: more definition, more lift, and more length to transform lashes with impossibly real results. Using film-forming technology, it coats each lash in lightweight fibers for a high-impact, fanned-out finish and smudge-proof wear.

Note: Parent company is not cruelty free.

Four

Tarte
Gifted Amazonian Clay Smart Mascara
Cost: $23
Size: .24 oz
Average Review: 4.3/5 stars from over 1.9k reviews
About the Product (from Sephora):

A reparative and volumizing vegan mascara infused with Amazonian clay.

Additional Notes:

• This mascara delivers an increase in lash volume and offers long-term reparative, rebuilding, and strengthening benefits with each swipe, giving you instant results and better lash health. Amazonian clay, known for intuitively restoring hydration and the skin’s texture, also works to hydrate and replenish dry and brittle lashes to prevent fallout. This natural clay performs all day by absorbing oil and keeping the mascara in place for flake-free, longer wear. It prevents lash loss and promotes lash health, and after daily wear, lashes are intact, healthier, and stronger. Amazonian clay also enriches the pure color pigments, creating a volume-boosting formula with higher intensity and truer color. The result is healthier and more voluminous lashes that won’t ever flake or transfer.

Note: Parent company is not cruelty free.

Three

Buxom
Lash Volumizing Mascara
Cost: $22
Size: .37 oz
Average Review: 4.4/5 stars from over 9.2k reviews
About the Product (from Sephora):

A volumizing mascara that dramatically defines, lengthens, and lifts for fuller-looking, ultra-black lashes, minus any clumps.

Additional Notes:

• Give your lashes a visible lift with this cult-favorite mascara that delivers up to three times the volume in as little as a single stroke. The hourglass-shaped brush boasts dense, molded bristles that grip every hard-to-reach lash for dramatic definition, major length, and serious curl. Infused with glossy, patent leather pigments, vitamins, and antioxidants, this mascara nourishes and softens for fierce, flexible, fanned-out lashes.

Note: Parent company is not cruelty free.

Two

Ilia
Fullest Volumizing Mascara
Cost: $28
Size: .32 oz
Average Review: 4.4/5 stars from over 300 reviews
About the Product (from Sephora):

A clean, volumizing mascara that wraps each lash in weightless, buildable volume without flaking, smudging, or irritating even the most sensitive eyes.

Additional Notes:

• The violin-shaped brush thickens and defines lashes from root to tip with fluffy, flexible fullness you can’t miss. It is also ophthalmologist tested and safe for sensitive eyes and contact lens wearers.

Ingredient Highlights

• Arginine: Supports stronger, healthier-looking lashes.
• Provitamin B5: Nourishes to promote thicker-looking lashes.
• Weightless Wax Blend: Adds full, flexible body without the weight.

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Saie
Mascara 101 Lengthening and Lifting
Cost: $24
Size: .31 oz
Average Review: 4.6/5 stars from over 300 reviews
About the Product (from Sephora):

A 100 percent naturally derived mascara that lifts, lengthens, and strengthens to leave lashes full, flexible, and feathery.

Additional Notes:

• This buildable formula has a bouncy vivacity that grips to the root to lengthen and lift every lash. Its hydra-mineral complex strengthens with rich conditioners and high potassium levels for lashes that are flexible—never flaky. The molded brush has various bristle lengths to separate and extend.

Ingredient Highlights:

• Responsibly Sourced Australian Beeswax (Cera Alba): Allows the mascara to coat, lengthen, and stiffen (but not harden) lashes.
• Shea Butter from Ghana: Moisturizing and nourishing, it also creates a silky, smooth texture.
• Hydra-Mineral Complex (Quackgrass Extract): Rich in minerals for lash strengthening.

Have you given any of these cruelty free mascaras a try? I’d love to hear your thoughts!