I am not exactly sure where to start off except to say that this is all coming from the bottom of my heart and I am not trying to preach to anyone. I just wanted to make you a more aware consumer. I was quite eager to start doing some more research on companies like Neutrogena for future reviews. This is where my day went from beautiful to absolute horror and dismay. I get passionate about cruelty to animals. I hate to see any animal sufferI love animals and I try as much as I can to advocate for them since they don’t have a voice out there. While I was researching Neutrogena , I had a thought to just double check that such a credible company as this one is that it did not test its’ products on animals.
Here is where I became absolutely
horrified. Not only did I find out that Neutrogena contributed to cruelty to animals on testing their products but I found many companies that did, like my favorite Suave shampoo. It seemed as if everywhere I looked around my house I had contributed to animal cruelty, including my post it notes.
So I started reading more about what type of cruelty is meant and how cruel it truly is and here is what I found…
In 1933, the cosmetics began testing on animals because a woman who had tried a certain mascara had burned, blinded her eyes, and eventually killed her. It was then that the Food and Drug Administration passed the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act in 1938 to protect the public from unsafe cosmetics.
There are two tests that are the most commonly used in this day: #1) The Draize Test where the person will drop a substance into an animal’s eye, which is usually an albino rabbit and seeing the results; #2) The Lethal Dose 50 Test involves forcing a substance to be eaten by a group of animals until 50 percent of the animals have died. Up until now major corporations continue to test their products on animals where there have been other alternatives found making animal testing completely unnecessary.
The first two cosmetic companies to say “no” against animal testing were Avon and Revlon. It is said that the major reasons that businesses still use animals is to avoid possible lawsuits or dangers to human health. While companies are searching for these alternatives, animals are used even more to do the old test and compare it without an animal to the alternative way, “ensuring consistent results.” There have been in-vitro tests, database tests, human tests, and computer tests. Unfortunately, there are still some tests that involve animal sacrifice in order for the use of their parts. An example would be:
“Eytex
Produced by the National Testing Corp. in Palm Springs, California, Eytex is an in-vitro (test-tube) procedure that measures eye irritancy via a protein alteration system. A vegetable protein from the jack bean mimics the reaction of the cornea to an alien substance. This alternative is used by Avon instead of the cruel Draize eye irritancy test.”
Taken from https://allforanimals.com
Just so that you are aware there is not one law which states that any company has to use animals to test their products before humans are sold the merchandise. It is this that infuriates me even further to know that it is so unnecessary and there are other more refined alternatives out there that could be used instead that are even more cost effective, “better predictors of human injury, ” and will give much quicker results that do not have to engage any animal cruelty.
I have now seen the pictures on the websites that are graphic and eye opening. Is it that important that this particular nail polish works the best if bunny’s are deteriorating from it? Well the Department of Transportation has used a “hideously cruel skin-corrosivity experiment to test the chemicals on rabbits despite the fact these tests are completely unnecessary since there is a Federally approved non-animal test called Corrositexavailable.” (from PETA) So some of mine and your tax money is being used to abuse rabbits that is completely unneeded.
This isn’t just about mice or bunnies, there are chickens and cats being mutated along with monkeys being prodded in their brains. The reason why cats are currently being mutated is to find the gene that makes people allergic to them but still want to have a cat. So in order to have that cat and make that pill, other cats are born without legs, without ears, or an inflated lung. Is it really worth it just to have a cat? There are other things that can be done in order for people to have cats as is shown on the https://peta.com website.
Whether it is a mouse, a cat, a dog, a monkey, it is just so unnecessary in this day and age of the technology that we live in. Now I don’t care about being that acne free or my nails being perfect or my hair conditioner working as well if it is due to the mutation and cruelty of an animal. It isn’t worth it for me. Now I could care less whether the company gives millions and millions of dollars away to charities if they are also killing and mutating thousands upon thousands of bunnies or other animals for their products.
I just don’t understand. It is that simple for me. I think I will just end this piece for the night. I just wanted to make all of you aware and whether it was truly worth it or not for you or I to have that product anymore.
Until Next Time,
K Parsons
Here is a list of the companies that Still Use Animals for their Research
Arm & Hammer
Bausch & Lomb-Curél, Soft Sense, Clear Choice
Block Drug Co., Inc.-Polident, Sensodyne, Tegrin, Lava, Carpet Fresh
Bristol-Myers Squibb Co.-Clairol, Ban Roll-On, Keri, Final Net
Calvin Klein Cosmetics
Carter-Wallace-Arrid, Lady’s Choice, Nair, Pearl Drops
Chesebrough-Ponds-Fabergé, Cutex, Vaseline
Clairol, Inc.
Clorox (Pine-Sol, S.O.S., Tilex, ArmorAll)
Colgate – Palmolive, (currently observing a pause on animal testing)
Cover Girl
Del Laboratories (Flame Glow, Commerce Drug, Sally Hansen)
Dial Corporation (Purex, Renuzit)
Dow Brands (Glass Plus, Fantastik, Vivid)
Elizabeth Arden, Inc
Helene Curtis Industries-Finesse, Unilever, Suave
Jhirmack-Playtex
Johnson & Johnson
Kimberly – Clark Corp.-Kleenex, Scott Paper, Huggies
Lever Bros.
Max Factor
Some of these companies have been repeated due to the way they are listed as separate entities but they are still owned by the BIG corporation. I found this list to be very eye opening and for more see https://allforanimals.com and they also have a few hundred companies listed that do NOT test on animals as well. This is where I found my list to begin with and much of my research as well as PETA and some other websites. Thank you again for allowing me to express this opinion.
