tests to determine the safety of cosmetics. Substances such as eye

shadow and soap are tested on rabbits, rats, guinea pigs, dogs, and

other animals, despite the fact that the test results don't help

prevent or treat human illness or injury.

Cosmetics are not required to be tested on animals and since

non-animal alternatives exist, it's hard to understand why some

companies still continue to conduct these tests. Cosmetic companies

kill millions of animals every year to try to make a profit.

According to the companies that perform these tests, they are done to

establish the safety of a product and the ingredients. However, the

Food and Drug Administration (FDA) which regulates cosmetic products,

does not require animal testing. Some of the tests used on animals are

eye irritancy tests, acute toxicity tests, and skin irritancy tests.

In eye irritancy tests, a liquid, flake, granule, or powdered

substance is dropped into the eyes of a group of albino rabbits. The

animals are often immobilized in stocks from which only their heads

protrude. They usually receive no anesthesia during the test

laboratories where animals are used and enforces federal laws

state, and local legislation severely restricting animal

unreliable and have too many variables to have a constant result.

tests, determine the amount of a substance that will kill a

other animals. The process involves placing chemicals on the animals

takes 2-4 weeks). Like eye irritancy tests, lethal dose tests are

animals are immobilized in restraining devices to prevent them from

observe the animals reactions which can include convulsions, labored

breathing, malnutrition, skin eruptions, and bleeding from the eyes,

end to animal testing, people can stop buying products that were

continues until at least fifty percent of the animals die (usually

tested on animals. You can also call and write to these companies, or

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