RE: animal testing and cosmetics

the_devil_made_me_do_it

I'm sure Aldi are against animal testing and have been well before a lot of other companies.

Froglet

The Co op are also a good store to get own brands from as they have not used any testing since 1985 i believe.There are clear labels on all their other products,as well as cosmetics.

Another thing to watch out for is which charities use testing on animals,for whatever reason.I refuse to give to companies that will use my donation to conduct cruel experiments.This website gives a lot of very useful info on this and all other animal related issues.

http://www.animalaid.org.uk/h/n/CAMPAIGNS/experiments/ALL/281/

ceridwen

Am wondering whether Friends of the Earth might also be able to point your daughter in the right direction?

Of course - theres always making your own cosmetics.

Look up:

www.summernaturals.co.uk

www.purenuffstuff.co.uk

www.soapkitchenonline.co.uk

for ingredients for cosmetics and cleaning materials.

ksh123

Hi all
thanks so much for all this useful info and the links. some of the info I already knew but alot is new, so I am very grateful.

I have reccommended BWC to her but of course she is a young girl and still wants the pleasure of being able to go into a shop and try before she buys etc. She also loves the designer labels preferring to buy expensive quality products which she feels offer better value in the long run.
We have discovered that Benefit and, perhaps surprisingly, Boots No 7 are not tested on animals but whether they use products that were tested before they came to them will take a bit more delving to discover. I don't feel Body Shop can be trusted any longer (shame) and I agreee about Proctor & Gamble who I avoid as much as I can tho the saturation of their products doesn't make it easy. Hadn't heard of e.l.f. before though.

Many thanks.

LilMissEmmylou

just wanted to say good on ur daughter for being a conscientious shopper if only more people where like that - and well done you for supporting her! a lot of mums would just find it a pain in the bum

LizD_2

Too Faced, Urban Decay and Clinique aren't tested on animals and are available on the high street, larger Boots and most department stores do them.

Barry M cosmetics are cheap, cheerful and cruelty-free.

http://www.toofaced.com/

http://www.urbandecay.com/

http://www.clinique.co.uk/

http://www.barrym.co.uk/

Clive_Woody

Will your daughter also be avoiding all medicines that have been tested on animals?

Acehole_2

I think dogs look good with lipstick on and a ciggy in their mouths, just my point of view,I'm all for testing on animals.

morg_monster

Thats a cheeky question Clive! I think it is perfectly legitimate to refuse to use "non-essential" items like cosmetics which have been tested on animals, whilst still using medicines and other more essential things which have. I don't think it is double standards.

It may be difficult to ascertain which ingredients have ever been tested on animals in the (possibly dim and distant) past. She may want to go "chemical-free" if she wants to be really sure. But hopefully she can sleep at night with BUAV-approved products or products which have ingredients which were once tested on animals but not anymore.

Clive_Woody

morg_monster wrote: »

Thats a cheeky question Clive! I think it is perfectly legitimate to refuse to use "non-essential" items like cosmetics which have been tested on animals, whilst still using medicines and other more essential things which have. I don't think it is double standards.

I agree, but I just wondered, as so often when teenagers have these moments of enlightenment, they don't look at the big picture and start pontificating without really knowing as much as they might think they do.