Cruelty-Free Beauty

I don't use makeup, but I'm not exactly anti animal cruelty. I would prefer it'd be tested on sensitive individuals and be "sensitive approved," since that's what usually gets me with lotions and skin products.

 

I'm not for animal testing since it is often inaccurate and, obviously, bad for the animals involved.

I really couldn't care less about makeup, but I think it's absurd to test it on animals. For medicine, you at least have the pretext of saving lives, even if most of the tests will be invalid due to massive difference between humans and the animals who have been tested. With makeup, you don't really need it either way, so why make innocent suffer for fashion?

Science is becoming more advanced now, so it's now becoming possible to test those things on artificially generated skin/organs. To me, that'd be the best solution because not only are your test more accurate, but you also save animals. Win-win.

 

I share the same view as RainbowGreen, but I think to a more extreme extent. I'm really against testing cosmetics on animals, I just cannot wrap my mind around the fact that people think this is okay. Like RainbowGreen said, it's cosmetics we're talking about, not life-saving medicine. Not only do I find the testing on animals disgusting, I find people's indifference or lack of care towards testing on animals despicable as well.

 

Testing unnecessary products on animals is pretty fucked up in my opinion. The rabbit or mouse or whatever did nothing to deserve being exposed to a shit ton of chemicals and other crap all in the name to see if we can make people look pretty.

 

I'm against animal testing. I don't want people to test on animals, but I don't have the time, money, or energy to find out specific brands and where to buy them.
I'd prefer my makeup to not be animal tested, but I won't go out of my way to make sure. If I see something I like, I'm gonna buy it.

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I did a quick search, and apparently the makeup I usually buy is not animal tested, so I guess that worked out well.

 

I don't wear makeup outside of the stage (and when I wear it on stage it's usually someone else's, and there doesn't seem to be much point in trying to be super-righteous with someone else, over makeup they have already bought)

I feel like if I did wear makeup I would make it a point to ensure it was cruelty free. But I don't so I can't bring myself to care enough about it.

 

I haven't worn makeup for over a year, but I always got cruelty-free. I'm not going to support animal cruelty to save a couple dollars.

 

I very, very rarely wear any make-up, I've never wore a lot, but I am 100% against testing cosmetics on animals. It's unnecessary, they know well enough about the chemicals they're using these days. There's no good reason (saving money is not a good reason) to not test on paid, consenting humans.

All my cosmetics (aka eyeliner) are cruelty-free and I only use LUSH soaps.

(Also, not vegan or vegetarian, and totally okay (read: estatic) that my dad went hunting and shot a moose last week. So it's not just "animals are friends; not food" types!)

 

I feel bad about it, but honestly I just buy whichever make up a) suits my complexion, and b) isn't horrendously expensive. But I only buy bath products from Lush, if that counts. Actually, I literally just went there to pick up some bath bombs.

 

(Would just like to add that I'm not okay with animal testing. Obviously I'm against it so yeah, I'm not proud of the fact that I technically support the industry, I just buy whatever's cheapest. But I'm going to try to change that.)

 

Why test products on animals when humans are going to be using the products?

And if there was the slightest thought that a product would harm or kill humans, why mess with it to begin with?

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Well currently 85.9% of people who voted for your poll said they don't even wear makeup including me, lol. But I personally don't understand the concept of animals testing either way. It's going on HUMANS. So why put it on animals? :eusa_doh:

 

If I had a choice between cosmetics and wasn't allergic to everything, I would probably care. My priority and trouble is finding cosmetics that don't cause allergy and won't make my acne worse, though.

If I didn't have a ton of food allergies too, I would probably care to be vegetarian. But I do have a lot of allergies, that specifically include meat and pea-like plants, so it's either me or them business.

But I agree that the methods of animal testing, especially cosmetics, are pointlessly cruel, and hey, why not test on people? I don't get it. Maybe people are too expensive?

 

I've heard there IS an alternative to animal testing, so why don't makers opt for that. I would prefer it to be not tested on animals, but then how would people know that it's cruelty free unless it's stated on the package? The Body Shop does that though, but they're expensive so...

 

(I just realised that I wrote allergy to meat, but it was meant to be milk)

 

I don't wear makeups, but you know animal testing is done for shampoos as well.

 

I don't really care. Whatever is the best bang for my buck.