A little while ago I did a study on how much we know as customers, about animal testing in makeup products. From the research I determined that a majority of participants surveyed would switch to cruelty free if they knew the products there currently using where tested on animals. Which a key reason I decided to start a blog. I just want people to be given all the information and then choose for themselves.
Because my blog is all about cruelty free products I though it would be nice to talk about how to determine if a product is tested on animals and my thoughts on it. There are two ways that a company can get around saying they test on animals. One is selling products in china. A lot of companies are very against animal testing and will not conduct it, unless required by law. Currently there is a law in China stating that any product that is sold in China must first be tested on animals. It is the only country in which this is a requirement. So any company selling in China must conduct animal testing. Therefor they are making a conscious decision to test their product on animals.
The second way a company can get away with animal testing is a parent company. An example of this is The Body Shop, who are very against the conduction of animal testing however are owned by a parent company 'LOreal' Who does conduct animal testing. Despite the products from The Body Shop remain cruelty free allowing them to say it is cruelty free. There is a bit of debate over weither they still should be allowed to do this. Some people believe you are still contributing to the company testing on animals. However others see it as a way to show the brand their cruelty free preference in the hope they too will become cruelty free. I personally still purchase from the body shop and others like urban decay as i do see it as a way to communicate my opinions to the brand. There are some fantastic products available whatever you choose to believe
This all makes buying beauty products very confusing. However there are a few website you could look towards if you decided to go cruelty free. http://www.logicalharmony.net provided weekly updates on which brands are cruelty free. Or my favourite www.peta.org/ which allows you to search for companies and also has a lot of great resources on
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Clover x
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