Cosmetic Animal Testing History

Alex pacheco of the 98 nobel prizes awarded for physiology or medicine 75 were directly dependent on research from animals.

Cosmetic damage definition. Cosmetic testing on animals is a type of animal testing used to test the safety and hypoallergenic properties of products for use by humans. The end cruel cosmetics bill to end the production and sale of newly animal tested cosmetics and cosmetic ingredients is introduced in the australian senate. Stretching behind us is a long history of animal testing upon which many advances in science and nobel prizes are based.

Using animal testing in cosmetics development might involve testing all the ingredients of the finished commodity or the finished product on the animals often rats mice or rabbits among others. Cosmetic testing on animals can be very harmful to the test subjects. Therefore it is banned in norway israel india and the european union.

Russell and rex burch. Cosmetics companies can stop animal testing immediately and still produce new safe and exciting beauty products simply by manufacturing the cruelty free way. Cosmetic animal testing is banned in colombia the european union united kingdom india israel and norway.

China implements a rule to remove mandatory animal testing for non special use cosmetics manufactured within china. In 1933 cosmetic testing using animals became a common practice after a woman used lash lure mascara which burned her cornea and left her blind. In 1980 henry spira protests against the draize test by targeting revlon.

India bans the import of newly animal tested cosmetics. Using the thousands of ingredients with a long history of safe use because these will have existing safety data and require no further testing animal or otherwise. In 1959 the 3rs replace reduce refine emerged with the publication of the principles of humane experimental technique by wms.