What Makeup Companies Test On Animals As Of 2017

There has been a lot of talk in recent years about corrective companies testing their products on animals over again. Ground aught was a post back in 2012 by PeTA that you tin read here. While Dog Files is non an abet of PeTA, their piece of work over three decades earlier to cease makeup companies from testing on animals is indisputable.

1 of the almost read (and controversial) posts on Dog Files was well-nigh that PeTA report. You tin read that post here, Creature TESTING RESUMES FOR AVON, MARY KAY, AND ESTEE LAUDER. Our article was even highlighted on Snopes.com because the post warped into a rumor that cosmetic companies started testing in the United States again. Something we never said.

The basics of our commodity was that Mary Kay, Avon and Estee Lauder began testing makeup on animals over again in order to satisfy regulations from the Chinese government. Times have inverse in the past 30 years, and Prc, with its own set of laws and regulations, is now a behemothic market for these cosmetic companies.

This story caused a lot of uproar and it wasn't but from animal welfare people that were angry nigh what was happening. Information technology seemed that a lot of makeup sales people were extremely pissed off with the Domestic dog Files and demanded that I was somehow making it all up.

They would contact their corresponding cosmetic companies and they would be told that, of course the visitor wasn't testing on animals. The person would then come back here and yell at me some more than. That's when I would explain to them that yes, technically the company WASN'T testing on animals. But China has laws and regulations that won't allow the makeup company to sell in that location unless the makeup is tested on animals. And then makeup companies would plow a blind eye and pay a Chinese government agency to do the actual animal testing. This way, cosmetic companies can take advantage of this new market AND technically "tell the truth" when saying that they weren't testing on animals over again.

So yes, the cosmetic companies weren't doing the testing themselves. They were allowing others to practice it for them, and paying them, so they could increase their global accomplish and profits.

Well, it's been quite a few years and I thought it was a good time to find out if anything has changed.

Avon

First, I thought I'd visit the AVON Visitor Website. I found this under, Corporate Responsibility.

"Respect for animal welfare is a cornerstone of Avon's product safety philosophy. In fact, Avon was the kickoff major cosmetic company to finish animate being testing nearly 25 years agone and we do not test on animals today. Instead, we apply non-animal production safety testing methods."

"Unfortunately, a few countries require additional safe testing, which may include animate being testing. Avon, in partnership with other organizations, works to help advance government acceptance of culling non-animal testing methods. Simply if a compromise cannot be reached, we must comply with the testing required past local law. Animate being testing is an effect faced past all global beauty companies.""

And a few paragraphs down I saw a chip of a change. ""Nosotros are encouraged to see that Communist china recently eliminated the animate being testing requirement for certain products. However, Communist china still requires testing on "special use" products (sunscreens, anti-pigmentation/whitening product, deodorant, fitness/slimming products, chest beautifying products, depilatories, hair growth products, hair perm and hair dyes)."

If you would similar to read the entire Avon Folio, here's the link.

This was interesting. It seems that China was relaxing some of it'due south rules, which is definitely a good thing. But non all of them. Avon would still allow them to test on animals for "special utilize" products.

While things have certainly gotten better, Avon stills get a big thumbs down from Domestic dog Files.

Mary Kay

We spent over an hr trying to find any animal testing info I could on Mary Kay'southward site and couldn't find anything. Even on their Product Prophylactic folio, not ane mention of it. But I did observe this image that says they all the same sell in Red china.

If anyone can find annihilation on their site, please let us know. But for at present, Mary Kay is even so selling in China and if they are selling "special use" products then animals are still being used. Mary Kay gets a big thumbs downward from Dog Files.

Estee Lauder

Now it's Estee Lauder's turn. I found the info pretty quickly, which I believe is a good matter, on their FAQ page.

"At The Estée Lauder Companies, the prophylactic of our consumers is our highest priority. We utilize the latest advances in non-animal safe testing and human volunteer testing to deliver products of the highest condom and quality to our consumers. Nosotros do non test our products or ingredients on animals, or inquire others to exam on our behalf, except where required past police. Nosotros are proud that we were one of the starting time cosmetic companies to establish that cosmetic safe can be demonstrated by non‐animal testing methods. There are, however, still some countries that believe they demand to conduct or require animal testing in social club to validate the prophylactic of cosmetic ingredients or products. Our Company and all of our brands remain dedicated to the elimination of animal testing on all cosmetic products and ingredients worldwide. Nosotros believe that animal testing should non be needed to validate safety of cosmetic products or ingredients and nosotros are encouraging the use of alternatives and the emptying of such animal testing globally."

Sadly, this ways that it is notwithstanding happening. Estee Lauder gets the large thumbs down from Domestic dog Files.

Next we found an article on Teen Faddy, entitled MAC Is Finally Speaking Out Amid Criticism for Creature Testing dated July seven, 2017. MAC is another behemothic cosmetics company. Here'due south an excerpt from the commodity.

"MAC doesn't test on animals," Anna Klein, vice president of Global Corporate Diplomacy, Global Communications at Estée Lauder Companies (MAC's parent visitor), tells Teen Faddy. Technically, she's right. MAC employees are not testing on animals. Just the company's products are tested on animals — in China, in authorities labs, by government employees."

"The MAC team isn't as clear on what happens within those labs. They're government-run facilities, so MAC isn't nowadays. However, brute advocacy groups say the tests are torture for the animals. According to Kathy Guillermo, a senior vice president of PETA, "substances will be strength-fed to the animals, smeared onto their and into their eyes," calculation that "the bottom line is death."

We will add MAC to our list of cosmetic companies getting the big thumbs down from Dog Files.

How To Detect Out What Cosmetic Companies To Buy From?

It's pretty easy actually. I went to the PeTA website and I plant a page about cosmetic companies that don't test on animals, a folio about cosmetic companies that do test on animals, and a database where you can type in whatsoever visitor'south name to find out if they still participate in this horrible practice. Below are the links for your convenience.

Corrective Companies that DON'T test on animals.

Cosmetic Companies that Practise examination on animals.

PeTA Cruelty-Gratis Database.

Concluding Thoughts

One of the most disappointing things for me is seeing sites like Snopes and Fox Concern specifically call out Canis familiaris Files to say we we were spreading false news. They literally say at the cease of the mail service, "This story is part of an ongoing Associated Press effort to fact-check claims in suspected false news stories." Each story acts like nosotros said that the CEO of the visitor is personally blinding bunnies. Which, of course, isn't true. Plus it'south just shameful when big corporations tow the line for cosmetic companies.

For cosmetics companies to say they aren't testing on animals, merely in reality they are paying a strange entity to do it for them so they tin enter a new profitable market is disingenuous if not dishonest.

That's like saying, "I didn't do it, I paid someone else to do it". Technically, sure, you didn't practise it. But c'mon, how naive and gullible exercise you think your customers are?

Plain, quite a bit.

Source: https://www.thedogfiles.com/2017/08/13/are-cosmetic-companies-testing-animals/

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