skattyasfuk wrote:
I have to say though is that not true of all cosmetics? How could they possibley get away with selling them if at some point they haden’t?
a good point.
For certain ingredients used in cosmetics, food products or medical products, some countries Health Ministries insist on animal testing for at least one sample of the product or the source chemical or it cannot be marketed in that country.
In many cases it is dependent on the chemical composition of that product and all manufacturers have to comply no matter how much they are against animal testing personally.
The rules vary from country to country and its difficult if not impossible to find out exactly what chemicals are in your cosmetics or toiletries because of commercial confidentiality, and the fact that most of us do not have access to mass spectrometers and a lab full of boffins to analyse the contents of your bathroom cupboard.
the best we can ever hope for is companies which checkable records which show they are keeping the use of testing to an absolute minimum, and to make a concious decision to use natural products and those which are less often tested on animals as much as possible.
TBH animal testing has vastly decreased anyway due to commercial pressures – lab animals take up space and resources, not to mention the health and safety/security risks associated with keeping such a facility operating
