Vegan barefoot shoes can be hard to find! Luckily for you, I spent countless hours scouring the internet for them all to put into this article. Enjoy!
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North America & Canada vegan barefoot shoe brands
ANI
ANI's mission is to provide ethically made stylish, vegan, and eco-friendly barefoot shoes to the world.
Shoe Types: Shoes | Boots
Activities: Casual
Features: Waterproof/resistant
Price: ~$115
BEDROCK SANDALS
Bedrock Sandals are field-tested to be light and secure, from mountain tops to river bottoms. All their Cairn Geo Sandals are made with 100% vegan materials and construction.
Shoe Types: Sandals
Activities: Casual | Running | Hiking
Price: ~$105
EARTH RUNNERS
Inspired by ancient huarache running sandals, Earth Runners' grounded conductive lacing system combines the benefits of earthing with the functionality of minimalist adventure sandals to offer the closest thing to barefoot.
Shoe Types: Sandals
Activities: Casual | Running | Hiking
Price: ~$105
FITKICKS
The Fitkicks goal is to offer a full range of products that enhance the ideal active lifestyle. Their products, made with a minimalist ideology, incorporate a stylish edge. They use a combination of microfiber and PU, which is a (Poly) Synthetic Leather that looks and feels like genuine leather.
Shoe Types: Shoes
Activities: Casual
Price: ~$25
LEMS
LEMS shoes, designed using the bare minimum, fit your anatomy while allowing your feet to move like wearing nothing at all. On their vegan barefoot shoes, they make sure that all materials, down to the laces and glue, are 100% vegan.
Shoe Types: Shoes | Boots
Activities: Casual | Hiking | Business
Features: Waterproof/resistant
Price: ~$150
OESH SHOES
OESH's mission is healthy by design. Further to that, there are no components in their vegan minimalist shoes derived from animals or animal by-products.
Shoe Types: Shoes | Sandals | Flats
Activities: Casual
Price: ~$110
SHAMMA SANDALS
Shamma now offers vegan sandals on special order, using their UltraGrip models as the base. They replace the connections and the lacing on their sandals with their UltraGrip material.
Shoe Types: Sandals
Activities: Casual | Running | Hiking
Price: ~$85
SOM SHOES
Made in the USA at our factory in Colorado, their mission is to help you rediscover your original sense of motion. Unlike traditional footwear on the market today, SOM shoes allow your feet to function naturally as if you were barefoot.
Shoe Types: Shoes
Activities: Casual
Price: ~$160
UNSHOES
With a mission to empower people by creating products that enable them to move naturally, all of the Unshoes sport sandals (does not include the Wildflower line) are made with vegan materials and are cruelty-free.
Shoe Types: Sandal | Shoes
Activities: Casual
Features: Custom Fit | Handmade
Price: ~$75
Europe vegan barefoot shoe brands
AEHREKRANZ
As a fashion designer who specialized in footwear design and development, Aehrekranz decided to make a vegan shoe.
They do not use mineral oil products above the sole and instead use organic cotton and a plant-based leather substitute made of pineapple remnants! The upper of this vegan minimal-shoe is eco-friendly Piñatex®, a water-repellent plant-based leather alternative. The lining is organic cotton fleece and the insole cover is uncolored organic cotton.
Shoe Types: Shoes | Boots | Flats
Activities: Casual
Price: ~$100
AHINSA SHOES
Not one part of Ahinsa's shoes contain materials from killed animals or any animal-derived materials. Their production is also not connected with the suffering of any humans or animals.
Shoe Types: Shoes | Boots | Flats
Activities: Casual | Business | Running | Hiking | Formal
Features: Waterproof/resistant
Price: ~$160
BE LENKA
Be Lenka develops and produces vegan barefoot shoes that are cruelty-free and guilt-free.
Shoe Types: Shoes | Sandals | Boots
Activities: Casual | Business
Features: Waterproof/resistant
Price: ~$130
BOHEMPIA
Bohempia's goal is to promote environmental and social sustainability in fashion by bringing hemp back to the mainstream. Their minimalist vegan shoes use vegan microfibre Ultrasuede® produced by the Japanese company TORAY from 100% recycled polyester being one of the most ecological substitutes for leather. These shoes are suitable for vegans and are PETA-certified.
Shoe Types: Shoes | Boots
Activities: Casual
Price: ~$150
ENIX
All ENIX sandals are 100% vegan and are made by hand with vegan leather. They offer a light and innovative closure system that allows running with the minimum interference between our feet and the ground that gives us the feeling of the sandals being part of the body.
Shoe Types: Sandals
Activities: Casual | Running | Hiking
Price: ~$50
FEELGROUNDS
Feelgrounds use responsibly sourced, 100% animal-free materials to produce their vegan minimalist shoes.
Shoe Types: Shoes
Activities: Casual
Features: Waterproof/resistant
Price: ~$140
FREET
Freet design and develop all our products in the UK and work very closely with their Chinese manufacturing partner to research and develop environmentally-kind materials such as their CoffeeMesh material we recycle from waste coffee grinds.
Shoe Types: Shoes | Boots
Activities: Casual | Running | Hiking
Features: Waterproof/resistant
Price: ~$100
GREENS SHOES
Green's shoes have a vegan range they've been making since the 1990s! Every shoe on their website can be made using vegan materials that are hard-wearing and available in a selection of colors.
Shoe Types: Shoes | Boots | Sandals
Activities: Casual | Business| Formal
Features: Handmade | Custom Fit
Price: ~$400
HIGH FEELS
They are light, thin, and all flat with no heel or restricting cushioning. And the best bit... 100% vegan.
Shoe Types: Sandals
Activities: Casual
Price: ~$150
JOE NIMBLE
For almost 40 years now, Joe Nimble has passionately been engineering shoes with natural toefreedom® and has developed a range of vegan shoes.
Shoe Types: Shoes | Boots | Sandals
Activities: Casual | Business | Formal | Runninlonnies vegan
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Features: Waterproof/resistant
Price: ~$185
LONNIES
All of Lonnies sandal designs can be made 100% vegan on request. Just let them know.
Shoe Types: Sandals
Activities: Casual
Features: Custom Fit
Price: ~$175
MAGICAL SHOES
Magical Shoes belive that sacrificing animal's lives for our comfort is the wrong thing to do. So Magical Shoes created footwear that is made without using any animal products but is still extremely comfortable and good for your feet.
Shoe Types: Shoes | Sandals | Boots
Activities: Casual | Running
Features: Handmade
Price: ~$120
MUKISHOES
Their goal was to create healthy, minimalist vegan shoes, that looked great, made of natural materials. They have many vegan options that do not contain anything from animal origins.
Shoe Types: Shoes
Activities: Casual
Price: ~$110
PAPOUTSI
Papoutsi uses vegetable-tanned leather that is free from harmful residues and as pure as possible for their shoes. Their 100% vegan, artificial leather is durable, breathable, and water-resistant.
Shoe Types: Shoes
Activities: Casual
Features: Handmade | Waterproof/resistant
Price: ~$80
SALTIC
Saltics vegan shoes use vegan microfiber suede to make cruelty-free footwear.
Shoe Types: Shoes | Sandals | Flats
Activities: Casual | Hiking
Features: Waterproof/resistant
Price: ~$125
SKINNERS
Skinners are handmade in Europe, without using any toxic plasticizer, and are 100% cruelty-free. The use phthalates-free materials and have been able to reduce their production waste to less than 1%!
Shoe Types: Shoe Socks
Activities: Casual | Running | Hiking
Price: ~$60
SOLE RUNNER
Sole Runner has created a wide range of vegan barefoot shoes in several styles for nearly every type of activity.
Shoe Types: Shoes | Boots | Sandals
Activities: Casual | Running | Business | Hiking
Price: ~$150
TADEEVO
Tadeevo offers a vegan version of all their shoes. All used materials are vegan-friendly - free from any animal products, by-products, or animal-derived ingredients. In their vegan Collection, you will find the same quality and protection as in other Tadeevo products.
Shoe Types: Shoes
Activities: Casual | Business | Formal
Features: Waterproof/resistant
Price: ~$110
TAYGRA
Taygra shoes are virtually 100% handmade using naturally tinted Organic Cotton, produced by small farmers with no chemical product. Taygras are vegan with no use of animal leather and made out of recycled textiles.
Shoe Types: Shoes | Sandals
Activities: Casual
Price: ~$100
THE DRIFTER LEATHER
Our philosophy is to keep the designs simple, classic, and comfortable but also up-to-date. Using their Piñatex® material, their minimalist vegan shoes are breathable, moldable, and durable.
Shoe Types: Shoes | Boots | Sandals | Flats
Activities: Casual | Business
Features: Custom Fit ****| Handmade
Price: ~$140
VIVOBAREFOOT
VIVOBAREFOOT is a revolutionary, back-to-basics design based on the simple principle that being barefoot is the healthiest way for you and your feet to be. With a range of shoes made from recycled PET plastics and a bio-based Bloom EVA performance insole, your sure to find what you're looking for.
Shoe Types: Shoes | Boots | Sandals | Slip-ons
Activities: Casual | Hiking | Running | Business
Features: Waterproof/resistant
Price: ~$150
WILDLING SHOES
Wildling is committed to continuing to reduce its ecological footprint, taking their ecological responsibility as a manufacturing company seriously. They choose their materials wisely and take advantage of environmentally friendly distribution channels.
Shoe Types: |Shoes, Boots, Sandals
Activities: |Casual, Running, Hiking, Business
Features: |Handmade
Price: ~$150
ZAQQ
ZAQQ has created a range of vegan shoes that are vegan. They use premium vegan leather for their upper and extra-thin vegan material which is supple and breathable for the rest.
Shoe Types: Shoes | Boots | Sandals
Activities: Casual | Business | Formal | Running | Hiking
Features: Handmade | Waterproof/resistant
Price: ~$175
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- Adam