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British luxury retailer Selfridges has announced a ban on all exotic skins, prohibiting the sale of items made from the skins of alligators, crocodiles, snakes, and lizards.

The luxury brand will remain fur-free, according to its new policy prohibiting alligator, crocodile, snake, and ostrich skin.

The company’s new global policy prohibits conducting, funding, supporting, and condoning experiments on animals.

The royal online store and gift shops at palaces across the UK stop selling a mohair teddy bear after a PETA exposé shows workers mutilating and slowly killing crying goats for the material.

Find out how PETA and our supporters protected thousands of animals from exploitation and abuse in 2018.

After PETA Asia’s recent eyewitness investigation of the mohair industry revealed the abuse and exploitation of angora goats, Lacoste has made the commendable decision to implement a total ban on the material.

Chanel is kicking fur and exotic skins – including crocodile, lizard, and snake skin – to the curb.

Jean Paul Gaultier announced live on French television that he won’t be using fur in future collections, admitting that the ways animals are killed for their fur are “absolutely deplorable”.

The hugely successful online marketplace Notonthehighstreet will join hundreds of other top international retailers by prohibiting sales of mohair from the end of 2019.

No tests on animals for Dove, and parent Unilever bans all tests not specifically required by law across all other brands.