Cosmetic Testing Vs Animal Testing

The Draize Test is an acute toxicity test widely used by cosmetic companies to test whether their products will cause irritation or other side effects in our eyes. As FDA states “In the eye version of the test, rabbits are placed in restraining stocks so that they cannot wipe their eyes. Their eyelids are pulled apart, and the substance is rubbed onto the eye.”.

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

Testing cosmetics on animals was a common thing for companies to do in the 1980s. The types of test they perform on animals are the potential for eye irritation, oral acute toxicity, photosensitivity, skin irritation, and many more depending on

Gerhard Zbinden, a toxicologist described that “the testing of just one substance can involve using up to 800 animals.” The pain and suffering that the large amount of these animals go through is not worth the possible benefits to humans. When animals are used for product toxicity testing or laboratory research, they are forced to undergo painful and deadly experiments. The most common product safety tests are the Draize test and the LD50 test. Rats and mice are usually used for this experiment. Since both trials are the most painful and deadly of all, they are often avoided but still performed. During an LD50 test, tubes are attached to the esophagus of the stomach and force fed chemical products, causing the animals to then suffer with discomfort and pain throughout different parts of the body. The Draize test determines the consequences of getting a chemical into a human’s eyes. In order to determine the eye irritancy of a product, scientists place it into a rabbit’s eyes and look out for eye damage. Specifically, swelling, redness, bleeding, and blindness. After performing the Draize test, rabbits’ either often bleed or become blind. They experience these symptoms for up to 14 days until they are evaluated for further internal damage. When performing the Draize and LD50 test, animals are expected to fail. Though, some take days and even weeks to die. During their weeks of slowly dying, the animals’ experience vomiting, diarrhea, and internal bleeding. Because so many animals are forced to go through these intensely painful test runs, animals experimentation ought to end to prevent wate of animals

A rabbit lives its life trapped in a laboratory. It doesn’t get fresh air and has different products tested on it every day. The product can make the rabbit go blind or cause its skin to burn, but there is nothing the rabbit can do about it. This is what happens to animals every day from cosmetic companies who test their products on animals. According to Cruelty Free Kitty (2017), over 30 cosmetic companies continue to use animal testing to improve their products. According to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (2017), “the agency has consistently advised cosmetic manufactures to employ whatever testing is appropriate and effective for substantiating the safety of their products.” This means that if the company believes animal testing is the best option for their product they are allowed to do it. Testing cosmetics on animals is cruel and inhumane, and people should avoid using products that test on animals.

Many people might say that animal testing has proven results for the safety of beauty products and cosmetics. Although, in some cases it is helpful, why would you want to use such an old outdated method of research in 2017 many more methods have opened up due to advanced technology. Animal testing dates back to the 1900’s and yet in the 21st-century companies are still doing this even though it is more costly than alternative methods.

Cosmetic animal testing is at all time high. Makeup has never been more popular than before. This means new products come out on a weekly bases. People see new products, they do not see the animal dying, just so they could get a new safe product. While many brands have joined the ranks of cruelty free, those include NYX, others still use animals to test products. The Draize Eye Test is used for cosmetic animal testing. This test causes horrible irritation. As Katrinack has said, this test causes "redness, ulcers, and even blindness." (FriendsOfAnimals.org. Date Accessed: 20 May 2017.) There is an alternative to these horrible irritation tests. The alternative is called the Bovine Corneal Opacity and Permeability Test. This alternative involves absolutely no animals. This procedure only involves

Animal Testing in Cosmetics: A Reflection on the Advantages and Disadvantages and the Impact of Technology of Animal Testing

New beauty products require testing to determine the beneficial and harmful effects for the consumers. Beauty products initially tested in vitro using tissues and organs must be subjected to suitable animal models before human use. Animal models identify potential safety concern and determine the accurate doses which should be administered to volunteers during the first human trials. This serves to protect the consumers, environment, and the workers from harmful effects of chemicals.

Many supporters of animal testing believe that the new methods of testing are not going to be as effective as the original method and the results of the tests will not provide as much useful scientific information as the animal tests would. While animal testing seems to be the easiest and most reliable possible way to gather information for human products without causing the humans any pain or discomfort that is incorrect. There are new innovative ways to test for human cosmetic products that may not only be less controversial than animal testing, but also more reliable and effective than animal testing. These new methods are proving to not only be less harmful, but they are also considered more accurate in some cases. One of the new alternative methods that is being used to substitute animal testing is using specific frozen body parts that have been donated to a hospital bank rather than using living animal’s body parts. An example of this is using donated corneas for the Draize eye test rather than inserting the testing substance into the eyes of the animals. An additional alternative is growing human body cells in laboratories and using these cells for testing instead of the animals. These are not only saving the lives of many animals they are also being considered more effective because these test subjects are actually dependable and relevant

At this moment, thousands and thousands of animals such as cats, dogs, monkeys, rabbits, guinea pigs and mice are being tortured, and are dying for the makeup you wear, or skin products you use. Due to cosmetic testing, these animals live a terrifying and painful life. Is it necessary for animals to die for cosmetics? The definition of animal testing is, forcing chemicals down the throats of animals, dripping toxics into the eyes or shaving the animal and pouring chemicals onto the skin. This torturous practice typically lasts from days to weeks to determine the presence of skin and eye irritation or other specific health issues. So, is it more beneficial to humans when a product is animal tested or is it more it more favourable to be cruelty-free?

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.

The authors gave a descriptive article on the different types of alternative animal testing for cosmetics. In addition, the authors of this article is affiliated with the Miami Valley Laboratories and Kanebo Cosmetics. The publication of this article was in 2010, which is relatively recent. These authors have published many academic journals concerning the safety assessment of cosmetics. This journal article supports my research question by stating the different possible alternatives of animal testing on cosmetics before they are produced onto

Different tests are done on the animals in order to see the effect it will have on humans. The Draize eye test is done for eye irritation this test was created by John Draize, a scientist who works for the United States Food and Drug Administration. During this test a substance will be placed in a rabbit’s eye. Developed in the 1940s, these tests involve holding rabbits in full body restraints so that chemicals can be put in their eye or spread on their shaved and scraped skin. The restraint stops these animals from touching their eyes or back to relieve the discomfort. The Draize test is used to measure irritation and caused to the eye or skin. With this test it can cause bleeding, ulcers, and blindness for up to three weeks. Rabbits are used for the Drazie test because they are very small and gentle and easily to handled. They are also very cheap to maintain. Rabbits also have no tear ducts unlike humans, they can 't cry out harmful substances from their eye. That means in the Draize eye test the rabbit 's eye is exposed to more of the test chemical for a longer time frame which is the main reasons why rabbits are chosen for this procedure. At the end of the tests it is most likely that the rabbits will be killed.

A rabbit lives its life trapped in a laboratory. It doesn’t get fresh air and has different products tested on it every day. The product can make the rabbit go blind or cause its skin to burn, but there is nothing the rabbit can do about it. This is what happens to animals every day from cosmetic companies who test their products on animals. According to Cruelty Free Kitty (2017), over 30 cosmetic companies continue to use animal testing to improve their products. According to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (2006), “the agency has consistently advised cosmetic manufactures to employ whatever testing is appropriate and effective for substantiating the safety of their products.” This means that if the company believes animal testing is the best option for their product they are allowed to do it. Testing cosmetics on animals is cruel and inhumane, and people should avoid using products that test on animals.