Why do makeup companies test on animals? Are they using dangerous chemicals? What animals do they mostly use?

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Why do makeup companies test on animals? Are they using dangerous chemicals? What animals do they mostly use?

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To the extent that I understand, it’s not that they are using toxic chemicals, but rather that they want to make sure that the amounts that they are using and the combination of all of the chemicals isn’t harmful.

This is because they don’t know how the mixture will turn out until they actually try it out, and getting humans to do it would imply lots of liabilities they can avoid by using animals.