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For Vegans, It’s Not Just What’s on the Dinner Plate, but Also What Happens After the Dinner Date – WTOP News

Entrepreneurs are making condoms, lubricants and toys with vegan ingredients and less plastic as consumers seek safer, more sustainable intimate products.

  • On World Vegan Day, entrepreneurs in the Netherlands are launching sustainable, animal-free sex products, expanding the vegan lifestyle movement beyond the dining table into the bedroom.
  • Standard sexual wellness items like condoms and vibrators often contain animal-derived ingredients such as milk proteins and beeswax, prompting entrepreneurs to develop vegan alternatives for conscious consumers.
  • Entrepreneur Simone Kuijer founded Aia in Amsterdam to create what she calls "100% natural" lubricants, while Lieke Warmoeskerken's Rotterdam-based shop LieLei offers ethically produced, low-plastic erotic products.
  • Warmoeskerken educates consumers about hidden animal products in wellness items, urging them to consider body-care ingredients as carefully as food, while entrepreneurs address growing microplastics concerns.
  • These initiatives reflect a growing sustainability movement in the Netherlands, where meat consumption declined for the second year, signaling a broader shift toward ethical living across all consumer categories.
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For vegans, it's not just what's on the dinner plate, but also what happens after the dinner date

On World Vegan Day, some people are exploring vegan alternatives beyond food, including in the bedroom. Worries about the environment and concerns about animal welfare are on the rise. That has led two entrepreneurs in the Netherlands to offer animal-free…

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