The cosmetic industries have been blooming for the past decade, especially sky rocketing in the past 8 years. And for the past 30 years, the fight against animal testing for cosmetics has been an on going struggle. However, with more people using cosmetics, the fight is finally seeing a victory. Or so it seems.
If you walk into a makeup department, you should be able to tell from the packaging whether the makeup you want to purchase is cruelty free. What many people don’t know is that “lots of major cosmetic brands are failing to inform consumers that their beauty products are tested on animals”. The twist is that their beauty products were tested in china and exported to different countries. Also, if cosmetics companies want to break into the Chinese market, it’s in fact mandatory for your products to be tested on animals. If the value of expanding and profiting outweighs the value of animal rights, a company may justify their actions on deceiving the public. But once news gets out of these unethical actions, the damage to the company’s reputation could be irreparable. Consumers started to blacklist the companies when news of this surfaced. A makeup hoarder such as myself, cosmetics companies that still unnecessarily exploit animals and then deceit the customers will get the cold shoulder in my books.
Lush’s Fight Against Animal Testing Movement