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Cruel companies expose animals to chemicals that may cause painful eye and skin irritation, developmental abnormalities, cancer and death. The pain from such tests can be excruciating, yet animals are typically not given pain relief, as scientists fear anesthetics could affect the toxicity of the chemicals being tested. So the animals are left to languish in pain.

A lot of companies purport to be cruelty free by using very cleverly worded statements such as: “none of our products are tested on animals”, “we do not carry out animal tests”, “we support the development of alternative methods” and “against animal testing”. In reality these companies may simply be outsourcing chemicals and ingredients from other companies that use animal testing. Or what is more confusing for consumers, they claim to be using the 5 years rolling rule, a policy which indicates that the product does not contain any ingredients that have been tested within the last five years. However this policy is extremely vague as many companies do not provide a fixed date, so an animal tested ingredient may be excluded one year but included the following year.

Now that we have access to modern technology, animal testing is simply cruel and inefficient with alternatives like Tox21 on the market which is vastly more advanced and provides more accurate results. And as Professor Charles R Margel states, “Ask the experimenters why they experiment on animals, and the answer is: ‘Because the animals are like us.’ Ask the experimenters why it is morally OK to experiment on animals, and the answer is: ‘Because the animals are not like us.’ Animal experimentation rests on a logical contradiction.”

Be a caring consumer and buy your beauty products from brands that are genuinely cruelty free, here is a list of websites where you can find animal friendly cosmetic companies:
http://www.peta.org/
http://www.ewg.org/skindeep
http://www.mymakeupmirror.com/MakeupWithoutCruelty.php
http://beautyfool.com/which-beauty-brands-do-not-test-on-animals/

If ya’ll can afford to, please avoid these companies and switch to not shitty ones.

(And I seriously hate peta, but sometimes they have a goods lists of okay/not okay companies and products.)

Agreed.

Girlfriend would like to point out that Chanel’s Beauty line is no longer tested on animals, but do contain some animal by product (beeswax, lanolin) and the reason Chanel eludes Peta’s DO and DON’T lists are because of it’s use of fur in clothing (a big no-no) slash it’s out dated.

Carry on.

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