Call to boycott companies who still test products on animals
Many manufacturers of personal care and household items still test their products on animals, despite the growing number of safer and cheaper alternative methods for evaluating product safety.
While in the UK using animal testing to determine the safety of household products is illegal, the selling of products that have been tested on animals is not. So instead of eliminating testing on animals companies simply moved their testing labs to countries that still allowed animal testing and worked from there.
Many cosmetics companies misleadingly claim their products are ‘not tested on animals’ but are not so keen to admit that they still use animal-tested ingredients. In these crude poisoning tests, chemicals are force-fed to animals, injected into them, dripped into their eyes and rubbed into their raw skin. Here is an overview that explains how to recognise the companies that try to give the impression they are cruelty-free, when they're not!
The following list contains all such companies known and their associated brand names.
I urge you all to boycott these companies and their products. To purchase only products that are guaranteed cruelty free. Animal testing is cruel, barbaric and completely unnecessary. Since the 1990's there have been many alternative testing methods for products to determine their safety. Companies only continue to use animal testing because it is "cheaper" a little "faster" and "more cost effective."
The next time you go out shopping look for products with this symbol:
The rabbit is an internationally recognised mark to show the product has 100% cruelty free.
Do, at least, try to buy more products bearing this mark to set the example and show that animal testing is an outdated thing. Cruelty free is the way to go.
Chemical-producing companies that test on animals themselves or pay researchers to carry out animal tests on their behalf:
Beiersdorf
Colgate
Johnson & Johnson
L'Oreal
PZ Cussons
Procter & Gamble
Reckitt Benckiser
Unilever
Procter & Gamble (P&G) produce a massive range of products in hair care, cosmetics, perfumes, personal hygiene, laundry care, snack food, paper and feminine hygiene, and even pet food. P&G’s brands include:
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Ace ~ laundry Always & Alldays ~ feminine hygiene Ariel ~ laundry Anna Sui ~ fragrance Aussie ~ hair care Baldessarini ~ fragrance Bold ~ laundry Born Blonde ~ hair dye Bounce ~ laundry Braun ~ electric shavers etc Camay ~ soap Christina Aguielera ~ fragrance Crest ~ toothpaste
Daz ~ laundry Dolce & Gabbana ~ fragrance Dreft ~ laundry Dunhill ~ fragrance Duracell ~ batteries
Escada ~ fragrance Eukanuba ~ pet food Fairy ~ various cleaning products Febreze ~ fabric spray Fibresure ~ health supplement Fixodent ~ denture fixer Flash ~ cleaning product
Gillette ~ shaving products Giorgio Beverley Hills ~ fragrance Glide ~ dental floss Gucci ~ fragrance
Head & Shoulders ~ shampoos Herbal Essences ~ shampoos Hugo Boss ~ fragrances Hydrience ~ hair dye
IAMS ~ pet food Infacare ~ baby wash
Jean Patou/Joy ~ fragrances
Lacoste ~ fragrance Lasting Care ~ hair dye Laura Biagiotti ~ fragrance Lenor ~ fabric softener Loving Care ~ hair dye Max Factor ~ make up Montblanc ~ fragrance Mum ~ deodorant
Nice n Easy ~ hair dye Noxema ~ shaving foam
Olay ~ skin care Old Spice ~ fragrance Oral B ~ dental products Pampers ~ disposable nappies Pantene Pro V ~ shampoo Pringles ~ snack food Purell ~ hand sanitiser Silvikrin ~ hair care SK-II ~ skin care Shockwaves ~ hair products Tampax ~ feminine hygiene Thermacare ~ heat wraps Valentino ~ fragrance Viakal ~ bathroom cleaner Vicks ~ decongestant Vortex ~ bleach
Wash n Go ~ shampoo Wella ~ range of hair products Zest ~ soap
Companies to Boycott entirely either because the products or ingredients used are tested on animals
Avon Cosmetics
Jeyes
Beiersdorf
Johnson & Johnson
The Body Shop/L’Oreal+
Lancome
Chanel
Lever Fabergé
Christion Dior
L’Oreal/Nestlé
Clinique
Miners Cosmetics
Colgate
Palmolive
PZ Cussons
Coty
Reckitt Benckiser
Estée Lauder
SC Johnson
FC*UK
Virgin Vie
Garnier
Yardley
GlaxoSmithKline
Unilever
Helena Rubenstein
While the products sold in The Body Shop are not tested on animals many of the ingredients in the products, supplied by parent company L'Oreal are. Surprising isn't it. They sound so friendly with a name like The Body Shop.
In fact the majority of the above companies have L'Oreal as a parent company
NON-ANIMAL TESTING COMPANIES
Try and buy more products by these companies:
Barry M Beauty Without Cruelty Bio-D
Boots (own brand products) Burts Bees
By Terry
Chanel
Christian Dior
Clarins Daniel Field
Dr Hausheka
Elizabeth Arden
Essential Care Faith In Nature
GOSH (cruelty free logos on American website) Green People Guerlain
Hard Candy Honesty Cosmetics Jemma Kidd Kingfisher
Laura Mercier Meadowsweetnails inc. Neal’s Yard Remedies New CID Cosmetics
Revlon
Rimmel Sisley
Sleek Makeup
Space NK
Superdrug (own brand products) Urban Decay Urtekram Weleda
Yaoh Yves Saint Laurent
The following shops and supermarkets are cruelty free for many or all of their own-brand products. Note that we use the term toiletries to cover all cosmetics, make-up and personal care products.
Lush - Lush only purchase ingredients from suppliers who have no connection to animal testing Aldi - own brand toiletries and household cleaning products Co-op - all own brand products Marks & Spencer - own brand make-up/toiletries and household products Next - own brand make-up/toiletries Nisa Todays - all own brands Sainsbury’s - own brand toiletries only Somerfield - own brand toiletries only Superdrug - own brands Tesco - all own brands Waitrose - own brand toiletries only
So you see how easy it is to find cruelty free products!
Supermarkets that are NOT recommended either because they do have animal tests of either the products or ingredients within or they have not produced answers on the above issue:
Asda
Lidl
Morrisons
Netto
Wilkinsons
So please boycott the companies which test their products on animals. Show them that it isn't right.
Last edited by Feel_Good_inc. : 26-04-2012 at 01:36 PM.
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I already boycott those company's because of there cruelty to animals and animals testing ...Sainbarys dose free from animals testing in there own range of shampoo and body wash etc ...
I very much doubt Aldi own brand shampoo costs more than a brand name like L'Oreal.
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im not boycotting any shops. I do get lush stuff but thats it. I'm not for animal testing but not against it either so the matter doesnt really affect me.
All of the items that are no longer tested on animals were tested on animals in order to get to this point. Pretty much everything in our lives were once tested on animals. Without it, we wouldn't have half the things we do - should we be boycotting anything that was developed by hurting animals?
I do disagree with testing on animals for cosmetic purposes as unless we develop some new compound, we know reactions for the things we've already got on the shelves.
Companies only continue to use animal testing because it is "cheaper" a little "faster" and "more cost effective."
No. Companies continue to test on animals because there is no viable alternatives and because they are legally obligated to. At least in the case of testing for pharmaceutical purposes.
Also, companies like P&G spend hundreds of millions of dollars on researching alternative methods and procedures and in eliminating animal testing in their products.
I'm also rather cynical about the "leaping bunny" symbol (companies have to licence it, for example), but then that's probably caused by my intense cynicism of the so-called "Fairtrade" organisations.
Last edited by The One Who : 26-04-2012 at 04:32 PM.
If I'm honest i have better things to do with my time than check every item i buy to make sure its not tested on animals. Going to make the weekly shop impossible doing that.
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I dont like animal testing. But it is better than just sending things out to customers untested. Like that anit sickness drug that caused loads of birth defects. I sometimes think people are a bit reactionary about animal testing, although methods do in some places need a bit more thought, as suffering should be minimised
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The animals no longer need to be a part of the testing.
Last edited by Feel_Good_inc. : 26-04-2012 at 09:27 PM.
Don't be fooled by my smooth skin. The deepest scars are the ones unseen.
Remember compliments you received, forget the insults. If you succeed in doing this, tell me how..~ Baz Lurhman.
Letting it get to you - You know what that's called? Being alive. Best thing there is. Being alive right now that's all that counts. ~ Doctor Who "The Doctors Wife" 06.November.2011
I dont like animal testing. But it is better than just sending things out to customers untested. Like that anit sickness drug that caused loads of birth defects.
That medication was tested on rats and found to be safe.
In humans, it caused birth defects if taken in the first 40 days of pregnancy.
There are many ways to test products are safe now without using animals.
Not for drug testing. Cosmetic testing, yes, but not for pharmaceuticals. Drugs will eventually make their to human testing, but they have to be tested on animals first to at least cut down some of the risks.
