Animal Testing : Cosmetic Manufacturers

Cosmetics are used to enhance one’s natural beauty, but may come at the cost of a life.

In this paper there are three main topics that are going to be covered. They are alternatives to animal testing, animal testing in cosmetics, and the news in the cosmetic industry related to animal testing. For this paper there were four sources that were evaluated. All of them had a few things in common and through that it was easy to link them together through three different subtopics that will be evaluated later in this paper. The first source that I will be using is “The Science of Dermocosmetics and Its Role in Dermatology”. This article was written by Dreno, B., E. Araviiskaia, E. Berardesca, T. Bieber, J. Hawk, M. Sanchez- Viera, and P. Wolkenstein. The second article that will be effective in this essay is “New

Everyday cosmetic products that many people use, such as lipsticks, shampoo, face wash, etcetera, are verified to be safe using animal testing. Chemical burns and other short term ailments are very serious concerns that plague Americans and the knowledge that the products they use will not harm them and their families is possible because of animal testing. Also long term effects, such as cancer, have been discovered through animal product testing and promptly stopped saving countless lives. “NOT TESTED ON ANIMALS YOU’RE THE GUINEA PIG” (Source C). Living day to day with the risk that the products trusted to use on your children and yourself is enough to validate

Did you know that more than 100 million animals die every year in U.S. labs? Many people believe it's wrong because it kills animals, but big companies still love it. Testing on animals can be traced back all the way to the 17th century in the UK during Harvey’s experiments to demonstrate blood. I believe that animal testing should be banned in the field of cosmetics, because there are already over 1000 ingredients already proven safe.

In the age of technology where production of cruelty-free products is safe and simple, the results from experiments involving animals are flawed and incomparable to humans, and testing is plainly cruel and inhumane, all cosmetic companies should cease the involvement of animal-testing along with an end to the sale of new products that have been tested on animals.

Imagine hearing the cries and whimpers from a laboratory and wondering what it is. Those sounds are coming from animals being tested and ejected with new substances daily. Everyday, animals are being tested on in laboratories and forced to use their bodies and faces for harmful chemicals in makeup. Millions of animals are killed yearly for testing purposes. Dying every day from this, animals won’t stop being put in danger until there is a cease to animals testing. In order to terminate animal cosmetic testing, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) should ban makeup testing on animals and use more effective and safe solutions such as human skin cells, this would help animals and humans.

Webster’s Dictionary describes cruelty-free as: “developed or produced without inhumane testing on animals” especially in regards to the cosmetic industry. Encyclopedia Americana states that an estimated 25 million mammals are used annually in research in the United States most of which experiments are used in researching human disease. Also controversy over animal experiments began in the 19th century in Britain and by the turn of the century attempts have been made in the U.S to pass laws to restrict animal experiments. Furthermore, two separate categories fall under the term animal cruelty: animal welfare and animal rights. One advocates the use on animal research but to prevent abuse of animals within these experiments. The other, welfare

There are hundreds of people who are against the testing of laboratory animals for any type of research, whether it is beneficial to human lives or not. They do not support the abuse and neglect that the animals tolerate while in the laboratory. People want companies to find alternatives to testing products on animals. There has been a group formed called the Animal Welfare Act (AWA) who has begun proposing that companies who are testing vertebrate animals should follow a system. This system would help to cause no more than momentary or slight pain to the animals (Virginia 1). “Alternatives are procedures that follow ‘the three R’s’: Refine existing test methods, Reduce animal usage, or Replace animals as test systems” (Virginia 1). Other steps have been taken by companies to help reduce the usage of animals for testing purposes. In 1979, Revlon Cosmetics was one of the first large companies to fund research alternatives with a $750,000 contribution to Rockefeller University (Stevens). “Several organizations such as the John Hopkins Center for the Alternatives to Animal Testing (CAAT), the International Foundation for Ethical Research, the Cosmetic, Toiletry, and Fragrance Association followed suit and started their own programs to validate alternatives”

While many countries have eliminated the need or completely banned the use of animal testing in personal cosmetics, the US has no ban on testing and companies have the discretion of testing on animals or not. One basic solution we can all pledge, is to be more aware of the products we decide to purchase.

A new survey shows that, “72% of Americans oppose testing cosmetics products on animals” (Physicians Commitee). These people are real people, who say they won’t buy a product that is cruelly tested on animals like dogs, cats, sheep’s, or pigs. The number of animals tested are sadly increasing, “2,703 cats, 6,077 dogs, and 7,458 primates were used in testing for cosmetics in 2010” (USDA 26). These facts show exactly how many animals are used every year for torture for many cosmetic companies. These animals do not have the voice to speak for themselves, so it’s wrong to treat them like things, when they are creatures just like us. Consumers still continue to buy these products, but if only they knew that these products aren’t natural and are chemically

Every year, millions of animals are killed by the cosmetic companies to test their products. These companies use powerful drugs and lotions upon innocent animals to record the fatal side effects only to repeat the experiment over and over again regardless of the creatures’ pain and suffering. They also give various reasons to justify the cosmetic animal testing. The cosmetic companies claim that they test on animals to establish the safety of their products and ingredients for consumers. These companies also feel that they are safeguarding the environment. However, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) states that the companies do not require animal testing for cosmetics and alternative testing methods are available. In

Many of the world's major cosmetics manufacturers have long used animals to test both the makeup, perfumes, hair products, lotions and other body products. This has been considered one of the worst forms of animal abuse.

While animal rights is a sensitive topic for many, most can agree that testing cosmetics on animals is inessential and unethical. Animal testing is a small but vital element of biomedical research and is ultimately unnecessary in relations to cosmetics. There is also a wide range of non-animal research techniques that, as well as being humane approaches to science, can be cheaper, quicker, and more effective. These alternatives prevent animals from suffering, and are more practical in general. Despite the controversy surrounding the subject and the many laws dictating safe guidelines for it, testing cosmetics on animals is wrong, and is a practice that should be abolished. Such groups as PETA, BUAV, and AALAS speak against companies that have tested cosmetics on animals for many years. Those groups oppose animal experimentation because of the raw cruelty of it and spread the word so every woman understands just which animal lives were sacrificed for the Foundation she’s smearing on her face every day. After all, there is nothing classy about watching a rabbit’s eyes

Every day in Australia, poor creatures of the animal species are struggling for survival, given no food or water, left in unsanitary conditions and being poisoned by hazardous chemicals, but what for? Animal product testing. The cruel and inhumane ways of testing cosmetic products on animals is considered harsh and barbaric. What can be done to these animals has no limit as they have little hope spending their days lacking the care and attention they deserve. Imagine being locked up in a small metal cage with no food or water, stripped of your freedom. During the experiments, most animals die and the lucky ones who survive are still shortly killed after. Animal experimenting is a cruel alternative of testing cosmetic products and it must definitely be banned.

We have so many products in the world but do we know these products are being tested on animals? People don't understand what these animals go through. Nore do they understand because of the testing the animals population decreases. On the other hand people and animals don't have the same reactions to products that are meant for humans. Everyone should boycott animal tested products and show the companies that the world would survive and be a better place with those animals here.