What makes of beauty products don't so testing on animals?

Question

I meant to say "do" testing on animals not "so" a typo fox watcher!

I heard that Body Shop had been bought by L'Oreal, don't know if this is true, L'Oreal are not beauty without cruelty

Answer 1

Whilst many if not most products do now suggest that they do not undertake testing on animals, there are certainly other issues you need to consider if you are seeking to become truly ethical in your beauty care buying habits.

Testing on animals is abhorrent and it is clear that it is often of little use for predicting the effect of chemicals on human beings - which further undermines its use as a method of assessing safety. One web site that features abundant information, plus details of products that contain absolutely NO ingredients that are tested on animals is http://www.saferalternative.com

Man has introduced many tens of thousands of synthetic chemicals into our lives over the last half-century. Chemicals that never existed before in nature - and about which we have little, or no, knowledge about what their long-term impact on us, animals or the planet will be.

Every year the many millions of people in the developed world, at the mercy of billions of dollars of advertising are persuaded to buy and use beauty and personal care products that incorporate a vast array of worrisome chemicals.

Not only is it now known that many of these pose clear health threats - many products contain chemicals that are KNOWN to be associated with human cancers for example. We know that around 50% of the constituents of our beauty products, cosmetics may be absorbed directly into the body by through the pores of skin.

But possibly even worse than this is the largely unacknowledged, massive 'unofficial' animal and environmental 'testing' that goes on due to the gallons of these chemicals washed off our skins down the drain! The ecological damage is incalculable. Just because it is not taking place in a laboratory - ANY products that contain ANY chemicals of a synthetic and unnatural nature, must be suspect in respect of the huge threat their indiscriminate release down drains and into public waterways pose to our delicate eco-systems.

Humans are already picking-up-the-tab in terms of health problems thanks to the virtually uncontrolled use of a wide range of toxic chemicals throughout products we uses and come into contact with every day. Amongst worse offenders in terms of health threats are indeed so called beauty products, which contain many known, harmful toxic chemicals...with almost no real research to clarify the potential risks involved for people who use several layers of products on their skins daily.

The marketing men seem happy to 'beseech' us to keep plastering ourselves with toxic substances...because apparently 'we are worth it!!!!!'

The issue of animal testing is now relatively small in so far as it is widely recognized as being an unethical practice that carries huge negative media potential for any company that still employs it.

What we should be more worried about is the totally uncontrolled release of vicious, toxic chemical residues washed down our drains every day to the untold damage of our withering eco-systems...we ourselves may be long gone before our great-great-grandchildren start to pay the real price for our short-sighted behaviour…but this does NOT mean we should abdicate our responsibilities.

One of the world's only truly safe full ranges of beauty care that has not only been developed from a strict ethical perspective, but only uses pure, natural and as far as possible CERTIFIED organic ingredients (this means you can be assured of their organic provenance...NOT like many off the shelf items that have little or NO real organic qualities) is now provided by http://www.saferalternative.com

(NOTE: there is also a great deal more comprehensive information on this web site that explains in more depth why you should be concerned about MORE than simply animal testing if you are truly trying to live a more ethical life - as well as full details about the extensive range of beauty products and all their 100% natural ingredients - NONE of which are tested on animals.)

Answer 2

Make your own cosmetics, that's the only way. If you ever wondered why Body Shop's slogan is 'Against animal testing' rather than 'Our products have not been tested on animals', it's because that even though the finished product is not tested on animals, the actual ingredients are - prior to being mixed to a product.

Seriously, make you own stuff, it's fun, cheap and you get such satisfaction out of it. Furthermore, you avoid allergens and parabens (hormones) which is otherwise almost impossible to avoid today.

Answer 3

Weizy's got most of them--one of my fav's is missing it's initial letter--Jason Cosmetics--http://www.jasoncosmetics.com/ they don't use petroleum products either, so good all 'round.

We've got to watch how Aveda does now that they've been bought by Lauder (Estee Lauder, Clinique, Prescriptives, Origins).

The Body Shop may not test on animals--but many of their products contain animal ingredients--like lanolin, urea, carmine, etc. When I called one of the Manhattan stores, they claimed that the lanolin was gathered in a "non-cruel" way. And isn't that a Python sketch waiting to be seen.

Answer 4

I think the nice soap shop called Lush doesn't do animal testing, because I remember buying some gifts from there (there are some really nice presents you could get for christmas from here - plus the products aren't animal tested - so sounds like your kind of thing!) They had a petition there about it, you had to fill out your name and address in order for them to stop animal testing on products!

Answer 5

Forever Living Products dont test on animals

www.foreverlivinginternational.com

Answer 6

There are many as listed above.

Unfortunately its not as simple as that. What they say is they don't test thier product an animals..thats true. But what they don't say is the ingredients they use to make up thier products DO get tested on animals.

If you ask then which of thier products contain only ingredients that haven't been tested on animals then you'll get a different answer.

Shame, people try to do the right thing but its mainly marketing hype by the sellers.

Unfortunately this is also true of our favourite British icon - The Body Shop

Good question though, keep asking them the probing questions and use your money in the right place.

Answer 7

i believe sincerely they all use animals for their testing for whatever and if your info is correct re L'Oreal then the boast of Body shop that no animals were involved in the experiment of their products will now go out the window but having said that i always have reservations on the claims of these companies they buy side products don't they

Answer 8

A lot of places like the Body Shop don't test specifically on animals, however they buy product / materials that have been tested on animals, so it is a bit like a mine field. I worked for a while with a company that bred animals for biomedical industry, there ethics were very high and they refused to release animals to any company that a) could not justify there research in terms of value to human life, and clinical development, and b) encouraged or engaged in any kind of cosmetic testing on animals. Some of the product testings is both unnecessary and physical horrible. In short most products somewhere down the line have tested on animals, the best way to ensure least animal suffering is to use reputable large company brands that are regulated and work with the Home office in terms of animal testing, this ensure that minimal suffering and least severity is always applied.

Answer 9

Avon definitely don't test on animals

Answer 10

As someone else has said there are quite a few brands that sell under the canopy of not tested on animals but, that means the finished product not the individual ingredient's!

Also, when thinking about these things you have to consider other products such as toothpaste, I heard a long time ago that Colgate do test on animals.

Answer 11

Body Shop