Do you use non-tested cosmetics and house products?

Question

I'm curious as to how many veggies and vegans are careful they don't buy products that have been tested on animals. Thanks for your answers :-)

ria: Yes, I do ;-) I think it's important to refuse to buy tested products so little by little the torture comes to an end.

SST:
If a product isn't tested on animals, it means it's been tested with other methods: in vitro,... These tests are actually safer and more reliable than tests on animals. Testing on animals isn't safe so you have a better change of being the "guinea pig" with a product that has been tested this way than with one that has been through more reliable tests.

Pink me:
There a lists available. Try Peta's site.

Answer 1

I am vegetarian and have been for many, many years and always make sure that anything I purchase has not been tested on animals. I will not even take any medication even if prescribed if I am in any doubt of what they contain or have been tested on. Nice to hear somebody after my own heart.

Answer 2

I think some people don't even know about animal tests and i'm sure a lot of people don't imagine how it is really ? How many know how cruel it is ? How many know how useless it is (yes, it's useless, it has been proven) ? How many know the huge number of animals killed by this way ? How many know that some product are testes many times (yes, same products for same effects) ?

Most of veggies i've seen are very compassionate but it's difficult to realize how crual is the reallity. I can't blame people for just never heard of something.

I want to add something for some who understand french in this topic. Most of vegans are not so aggressive nor so fundamentalist (i'm not sure it's the right word). We are generally peaceful people who simply want that every being could live happy and free. Veganism is about compassion, aggression is not. Someone who say people have to die, is not not vegan .

So to enventually answer the question: yes i care, not because i'm vegan but because i'm compassionate.

Answer 3

Yes I make sure to check the labels or contact the companies about their animal testing policies before I buy them. I have realised that it's extremely difficult to buy products which have had nothing to do with animal testing though. For example, Faith in nature shampoo says it's vegan, is buav approved and the raw materials haven't been tested on animals since 1988. They've won the ethical consumer award and I buy their products because they are not supporting the animal testing industry. But their products have benefitted from animal testing, even though it was 20 years ago. So I think it's pretty much impossible to buy products that have ingredients which have never been tested on animals. The important thing for me though is to support companies which no longer support the animal testing industry.

Answer 4

I have been veggie for about 25 years and have used exclusively non-animal tested and environmentally conscious 'cosmetics' and cleaning products for about the last 20.

They have been much easier ot find of late, but one has to be careful - some make product claims that are specious, to say the least, especially on contents of their products and the breakdown rates that they have in the environment.

Animal testing gives plenty of 'false positives' - ie: things seems safe on the animal but aren't to humans; and plenty of 'false negatives' things that are toxic to animals (chocolate to dogs, for instance, or onions to cats) but not humans.

It is difficult when it comes to 'proprietary' medicines, however. There are all kinds of experiments done an a variety of animals before medicines can be passed. This leads to all kinds of difficult choices. And the naysayers on here likely argument will be that people who are against animal cruelty want to see children die. Absurd and pointless, but they'll no doubt make it anyway.

Answer 5

When I first became a vegetarian over 20 years ago, buying cosmetics and cleaning products that had not been tested on animals were extremely difficult and they were very hard to find. Thankfully that is not the case today, even if you’re not a vegetarian or vegan to buy these products not tested on animals is very simple as all leading supermarkets sell them in abundance.

Answer 6

I'm not a vegetarian, but it's always been important to me. And I buy my soaps and detergents from a vegan store...they don't even sell honey there, so it must be ok!

In fact, I seem to recall signing petitions on the topic at school, so I've always been this way! Also, when I worked in Superdrug, the company were very proud of the fact that their products weren't tested on animals, at a time when so many other companies were.

Oh, and Anita Roddick was a big fat f*cking sell-out. Selling the Body Shop to those scumbags L'Oreal was a hideous thing to do. Like she gives a crap anymore!

Answer 7

I am not a veggie or a vegan because I do enjoy meat, however I do not believe in killing animals for any other reason than food - so I do shop carefully for products that are non-animal tested etc. However, i believe everybody has freedom of choice and I would not tut tut at any friend of mine buying products to suit themselves.

Answer 8

I have to look at it like this... if you buy a product that has not been tested on animals and use it yourself... you are still testing it on an animal. I choose to try to make the designation in what I believe in that there is no "useless" testing of anything. If it wasn't tested on animals... you are basicly allowing a manufacturer, who runs a buisness for profit, to not only tell you that the product is safe but also to allow an out for lawsuits if it harms you down the road by stating on the bottle that this product is untested. I just don't trust any buisness enough to put something together where they have the governs over both of those conditions...

Answer 9

i will see the two factors. If he knows approximately veganism and reasons for it and nonetheless eats meat and likes it, then it style of feels that's what he eats. i assume if he cares he'd probable be unsleeping approximately bringing it into the abode fairly than protecting it jointly as he's at paintings and out, yet i assume that's some thing you're able to desire to speak to him approximately and see how he feels approximately it. And confident, it could make issues greater no longer ordinary. the two your toddlers will choose what he's eating (and have confidence me - 18 month olds frequently do) or the scent will lead them to unwell. And as they become previous, it could pass the two way. the two they are going to like it (even nevertheless a vegan eating regimen does no longer recommend they are lacking out on something) or "Daddy's undesirable". or pass contained in direction of the stages. regrettably, while they commence noticing it, it will be a controversy. I won't misinform you - protecting them style of ignorant and slowly coaching them approximately meat which by ability of then would be distant places is a lot less demanding and greater organic than in the event that they had had it of their face from beginning, and could ensue at a youthful age than you theory became into authentic. on the different hand, in the event that they have not been eating meat, then they do no longer seem to be as probable to be hit with the perception that they've been eating those animals and pass by way of that section, yet in spite of the incontrovertible fact that, it will velocity up the technique while it will would desire to be defined, and then that there is foodstuff for them and foodstuff for different people who they are in a position to't have from a youthful age. there's a cut back to how long "that's icky" cuts it as an evidence. So no, i do no longer think of that's unreasonable in many approaches which extremely do impression day by day existence. it will be lots less demanding if he's open-minded and respects your needs and is not any longer disillusioned approximately it.

Answer 10

Absolutely. I like cosmetics owned by Estee Lauder (PETA approved company) so Estee Lauder, Bobbi Brown, MAC, Chanel, Bumble and Bumble, Stila, Revlon is also good. I like Method cleaning products as they are not tested on animals, are nontoxic, and biodegradable.