Animal Cruelty for Cosmetics

ANIMAL CRUELTY FOR COS METICS = 1 million COSMETIC COMPANIES STILL USE INHUMANE TESTING PROCEDURES ON ANIMALS WHEN CREATING NEW PRODUCTS MOST OF WHICH IS COMPLETELY UNNECESSARY. Every Year an estimated 115 MILLION animals are tested on. >½ MILLION are used for cosmetic products alone. THE MOST COMMONLY USED ANIMALS FOR COSMETIC TESTING ARE: A A A A RABBITS MICE RATS GUINEA PIGS ANIMALS SUFFER ALL TYPES OF HORRORS INCLUDING: SKIN IRRITATION Substance is placed on the shaved skin of the animal. Animals may experience redness, rash, lesions, scaling, inflammation, and/or other signs of damage. EYE IRRITATION Substance is placed directly on the rabbits eyes. The rabbits may experience redness, bleeding, ulcers and blindness. ORAL TOXICITY The substance is forced fed into a rat. The rats may experience diarrhea, convulsions, bleeding from the mouth, seizures, paralysis, and/or death. LETHAL DOSE Substance is force fed into the animal to determine the dose that causes death. This test is extremely painful for the animal and anaesthetic is very rarely used to ease suffering. GENETIC MUTATION, CANCER AND PREGNANCY TESTING Animals are fed the substance and/or have it applied to their skin daily for a set period of time. After which the animal is killed and dissected to look for abnormalities in the tissue or the foetus. SOME OF THE MOST FAMOUS BRANDS STILL TEST COSMETICS ON ANIMALS. THESE INCLUDE: MAYBELLINE Johnson's PANTENE REVLON MAXFACTOR COLGATE JOHNSON & PANTENE MAX FACTOR MAYBELLINE REVLON JOHNSON AND THE WORST PART IS THAT THESE TEST ARE LARGELY INEFFECTIVE: ANIMAL TESTING IN-VITRO TESTING (HUMAN CELLS IN TEST TUBES) 50% 85% CORRELATION WITH HUMANS CORRELATION WITH HUMANS 92% of experimental drugs that are safe and effective in animals fail in human clinical trials because they are too dangerous or don't work. SO WHO STILL DOES ANIMAL TESTING? TOP 5 COUNTRIES ARE: USA JAPAN FRANCE CHINA AUSTRALIA BUT GOVERNMENTS ARE BEGINNING TO CHANGE These countries have banned cosmetic products that have been tested on animals: UK ISRAEL 1998 2013 EUROPEAN UNION NEW ZEALAND 2013 2015 C* TURKEY 2015 INDIA 2013 And more may soon join them with legislation currently under consideration to ban cosmetic products that have been tested on animals: AUSTRALIA U.S BRAZIL SOUTH KOREA OF COURSE COMPANIES AND GOVERNMENTS NEED TO ENSURE PRODUCTS ARE SAFE. LUCKILY THERE ARE A NUMBER OF ALTERNATIVES INCLUDING: Using 1000's of products that In-vitro testing Silico Modelling have already been tested Human volunteer studies Developing alternative test SO WHEN BUYING COSMETICS KEEP AN EYE OUT FOR THESE LOGOS OR MAKE SURE ITS PLAINLY STATED ON THE PRODUCT THAT NO ANIMAL TESTING HAS OCCURRED: NOT TESTED ON ANIMALS crueltyfree Sources www.crueltyfreeinternational.org www.smallanimaltalk.com/2014/09/should-animals-be-used-for-cosmetic.html - HSI international. www.hsi.org/issues/becrueltyfree/facts/about_cosmetics_animal_testing.html www.humanesociety.org/issues/cosmetic_testing/tips/common_cosmetics_tests_animals.html www.animalsaustralia.org/ www.peta.org/ www.choice.com.au/health-and-body/beauty-and-personal-care/skin-care-and-cosmetics/articles/animal-testing-labelling www.crueltyfreeinternational.org/why-we-do-it/facts-and-figures-animal-testing www.peta.org/issues/animals-used-for-experimentation/alternatives-animal-testing/ www.leapingbunny.org/content/leaping-bunny-logo www.choosecrueltyfree.org.au/makeup/ www.peta.org/living/beauty/beauty-without-bunnies/ Colgate