Tens of millions of animals a year are tortured by shocking, burning, poisoning, and mutilation for various animal experiments, these animals are killed unnecessarily to test the safety of cosmetics and household products. These animals include dogs, cats, rabbits, guinea pigs, hamsters and primates.


The Draize Eye Test
The application of irritating and toxic substances to the eyes of animals. These animals are held in stocks to keep them from dislodging these substances and usually go blind from the tests. These animals suffer intense pain in these tests which can last up to 21 days. When the test is complete these animals may be killed or used for other tests


Dermal Toxicity Test
Animals have potentially caustic substances applied to their shaved skin while in immobilizing devices to determine irritation levels.


Lethal Dose Tests
Force feeding, injection or inhalation of substances to determine the quantity or concentration that will cause death.

These various tests cause the animals to have convulsions, vomiting, diarrhea, paralysis, and bleeding from the eyes, nose, mouth and skin. The duration of these types of tests can last from months to years.

These tests do not guarantee what a reaction might be of these test substances on humans. Also, these tests do not guarantee the safety of products that end up on shelves. This is seen in the fact that conventional personal care products contain substances recognized as hazardous and continue to cause skin irritation and allergic reactions.


Why do this to animals, that did nothing wrong to you?


- definitions, curtesy of google.com


Here is a list of known companies that are still testing on animals. Please take a look, there are alot on here that are popular companies. I hope that once see what companies are doing this, you will stop purchusing the product and throught out what you have of it. THIS IS AN IMPORTANT ISSUE!.


Buying anything by these companys, is just giving them more money to test on more animals. .



SKIM THROUGH THE LIST. . .


Alcon Labs
Allergan, Inc.
Alpha Hydrox
Arm & Hammer
ArmorAll
Arrid
Aziza
Bain de Soleil
Ban Roll-on
Banana Boat
Bausch & Lomb
Benckiser
BenGay
Block Drug Co. Inc.
Bounty
Boyle-Midway
Bristol-Myers Squibb Co.
Carpet Fresh
Carter-Wallace
Chesebrough-Ponds
Church & Dwight
Clarion
Clairol
Clear Choice
Clorox
Commerce Drug Co.
Consumer Value Stores
Coppertone
Coty
Cover Girl
Crest
Cutex
Dana Perfumes
Dawn
Del Laboratories
Desitin
Diversey
Dow Brands
Drackett Products Co.
Drano
EcoLab
Eli Lilly & Co.
El Sanofi Inc.
Elizabeth Arden
Erno Laszlo
Faberge
Fantastik
Fendi
Final Net
Finesse
Flame Glow
Giorgio
Givaudan-Roure
Glade
Glass Plus
Helene Curtis Industries
Huggies
ISO
Jhirmack
Johnson & Johnson
S.C. Johnson & Son
Johnson Products Co.
Jovan
Keri
Kimberly-Clark Corp
Kiwi Brands
Kleenex
Lady's Choice
Lancaster
Lava
Lever Brothers
Listerine
Lubriderm
Lysol
Max Factor
Mead
Mop & Glo
Nair
Naturelle
Neotoric Cosmetics
Neutrogena
Neutron Industries, Inc.
Olean
Oscar de la Renta
Pantene
Parfums International
Pearl Drops
Pennex
Pfizer, Inc.
Pine-Sol
Plax
Playtex Corporation
Pledge
Polident
Post-It
Prince Matchabelli
Proctor & Gamble Co.
Quintessence
Raid
Reckitt & Colman
Richardson-Vicks
Sally Beauty Supply
Sally Hansen
Sanofi
SC Johnson & Son
Schering-Plough
Scotch
Scott Paper Co.
Sensodyne
SmithKline Beecham
S.O.S.
Stanhome Inc.
Sterling Drug
Suave
Sun Star
TCB Naturals
Tegrin
3M
Tide
Tilex
Unilever
Vaseline
Vidal Sassoon
Visine
Vivid
Warner-Lambert
Westwood Pharmaceuticals
White Shoulders
Whitehall Laboratories
Windex
Woolite
Yves Saint Laurent