Why do makeup companies test on animals? Are they using dangerous chemicals? What animals do they mostly use?
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A friend worked for a cosmetics company. And basically you can’t just release whatever you want to the public. The FDA would shut you down so fast.
So you have to go through testing. One example my friend told me about was a lotion. They tested it on rats and none of them had bad reactions so they moved on to human trials, where 1.5% of the population got rashes from the lotion, it worked as intended for the other 98.5% of people. But because of that, they couldn’t sell that product.
Anyway, they test on animals because if any of those rats reacted poorly, they never would have gone to human trials.
Animal trials are much cheaper. You can buy 50 rats for testing for the same cost as 1 hour of one human’s time.
So testing on animals potentially avoids the expensive part of trials, should a new product not be viable.
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