Wednesday, September 19, 2012

Cruelty Free/ Power of the Bill/ Vote with your Money


I'm doing research by contacting popular cosmetic companies and inquiring on their animal testing policies. I borrowed this formate from veggiebeauty.com when acquiring information from the companies. "To Whomever it May Concern:I am doing research on animal testing, and I need to verify a few key points about your company.
1. Does your company test ingredients or finished products on animals?
2. Do you test ingredients or products on animals through a 3rd party?
3. Do your manufacturers test ingredients or products on animals?
4. Are you owned or affliliated with any companies that test products or ingredients on animals?
5. Do you/your parent company currently or have plans to market and sell your products in the Chinese market, which requires animal testing by law to sell in that country?
6. Do you use palm oil/carnuaba wax in any of your products? If so, is it from an organic and sustainable source?
7. Could you provide a list of all of your current vegan items available for purchase?
Thank you so much for the information."

So far I have contacted Physicians formula and Burt's Bees. 

If you are willing to also contact these types of companies and share their responses with this blog, and me Camila, I would appreciate it. I also think it's important to see how these companies respond to different people.
 Unfortunately, without physically checking out the companies factories there is no 100% bullet proof way of proving if they do or do not test on animals. Also, if many people show interest in purchasing cruelty free/vegan products more companies will want to go in that direction. The power that we have to vote with our money is powerful, and that is the biggest way we can get these corporations to listen to us. 

Camila A. 

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