Does make-up testing harm animals

Answer 1

Does makeup testing harm animals?

• Yes it can and often dogs or cats (even rats and mice) are left blind and sometimes have wounds that do not heal. Once the ASPCA and SPCA got word of this many of the makeup products were boycotted by the public and now most people will look on the labels to be sure it says "not tested on animals."
• Yes, it can be harmful because all different forms of chemicals used in human make up are applied directly onto the animal and the scientist watch for any irritation or discomfort. An animal will be harmed if it has an allergic reaction to the make up testing product.
• Yes, because not only could they possibly go blind or have other infected wounds they are being hurt for no reason as some or maybe most animals have a different reaction to these chemicals from what humans do. It is pointless for the animal being tested to go through with the treatment and I have an aversion when poor animals are kept in really bad conditions.
• Actually, at worst, this is what happens: The animals are kept in hugely cramped quarters, often about three rabbits in a half foot by one foot cage, living in piles of their own excrement. These animals, (the most commonly used testing animals are rabbits and small rodents, not, I don't believe, ever dogs), are then partly shaved, and have chemicals rubbed on their skin, chemicals often burn, blister, or otherwise painfully skin irritations or open wounds. After this horrific torture, they are roughly transported and then usually killed. I know this is a lot to take in, and not all animal testers are quite this brutal, but I feel this is something everyone should know about when buying make up, shampoo, or really any other such substance including deodorant or talc powder. Not all companies use this abominable practice. To tell them apart, read the back of what ever substance you're buying. There is a symbol that means it is not animal tested, or it will say that it is not animal tested. If it does not say, it most likely is tested on animals.
• Yes, animal testing is wrong! If an animal is given lethal injections that rupture their stomach, does it harm them? Of course it does. We need to stop the insanity of the cruelty to animals for the sake of human vanity. Animals are simply different from humans and are given massive doses of whatever the scientists are testing and there is no correlation

Answer 2

Yes, they do test lipsticks, eyeshadows, shampoos, conditions and nail varnish on animals. Those are the most common but some companies do more than that. They put lipstick and nail varnish on rabbits, and since rabbits have no eyelashes they stick eye shadow in their eyes and that colour their eyes, to test for an allergic reaction. However, do take into account that if these products were not tested on animals they would be very dangerous to use without testing, so they would have to test them on humans.

Answer 3

Yes, it is done to see whether or not a human would have an adverse reaction to the chemicals used. Of course, this isn't an adequate form of information gathering as human animals and non-human animals do not share the same physiology and thus, how one reacts to a certain cosmetic does not mean the other will react similarly.

Answer 4

Yes, and that's kind of the point: they're trying to see if the product under test will make the animal blind. If it doesn't, the product is considered safe.

Having said that, I have to add the REASON they do this test: It's not because makeup manufacturers like to blind rabbits. In the 1930s, the big fad was having your eyelashes dyed, as a sort of permanent mascara. The most infamous product was called Lash-Lure. It's very hard to dye eyelashes without getting the product in your eyes, and the dye in Lash-Lure was a very powerful "aniline" dye like the ones used to dye textiles. It was dissolving women's eyes (there is a picture of a Lash-Lure victim on the internet; her eyes are GONE, man!) and killing people. After the Pure Food and Drug Act was amended to apply to cosmetics, Lash-Lure was banned and the government went around collecting up all they could find.

Answer 5

Yes.