Mid Brain reports…
Next year, the EU has scheduled a ban on all animal testing for cosmetics. Industry experts are skeptical it will 
actually be implemented. As the Beauty Brains have previously reported, there are not suitable alternatives to replace all animal testing yet.
Artificial Skin Alternative
But they may be changing. Scientists from the Fraunhofer Institute for Interfacial Engineering and Biotechnology IGB in Stuttgart are working on an automated system for creating artificial skin. They envision it to be used for skin grafts and transplants. However, it might first be adapted to cosmetic testing as a replacement for animal testing.
I am happy to see that scientists are making progress to replace animal testing of cosmetics. No one likes to see animals still being used. Of course, no one wants unsafe cosmetics sold either.
Do you believe companies who way they don’t test on animals? How do you think they are ensuring their products safe? Leave a comment and let the rest of the Beauty Brains community know.
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Most ingredients used in skin care and cosmetics aren’t new so I don’t believe animal testing is required.
Animal testing also doesn’t guarantee that the product or ingredient will be safe for use on humans.
You’re right Joshua.
Of course, if no new raw materials are allowed, then there will be no new innovations in the cosmetic field.
And while animal testing doesn’t guarantee safety, it’s the best option at the moment.
I dislike animal testing but can see how it was necessary; the only reason it can be banned now is because practically all of the ingredients that would be used have been extensively tested, so we can all pretend we’re more moral than we were in the past because we stand on their foundation, which seems hypocritical. I’d rather we just admit that it’s bad and we should try not to do it, but not pretend that that makes any one person or company more wonderful.
There’s always been a disconnect for me too, for people who supposedly champion cruelty-free cosmetics and “all-natural” stuff. The most cruelty-free and all-natural thing in the world is your unadorned, unornamented face as Mother Nature gave it to you. It seems silly to declaim “synthetic” things and make your face look fake at the same time … Cosmetics are all about the celebration of the artificial. Grey hair and smile lines ARE all-natural.
And if animals matter so much to people who champion animal welfare, they can take a stand by simply not using cosmetics — if it really matters to them. *shrug*
It’s a weird topic …
Raugh, missing preposition: “declaim about synthetic things … ” Blasted grammar.
For 20 years I have been an activist against animal testing, especially in the cosmetics arena. Joshua is correct, the Library of Congress already has information on the safety, lethal-dose, and treatment of over-dose on most ingredients. For several years, in vitro tests have been used to evaluate eye- and skin- irritation without the use of animals. The horrific lethal-dose test (LD-50) where animals are force-fed ingredients known to be toxic, is outdated because most animal studies can’t be correlated to human use.
Why not simply use cosmetics that have primarily plant-derived and non-synthetic ingredients?? There is no need to test these on animals, and they are better for YOU.
Plant derived ingredients can not be used without safety testing (most have already been animal tested).
There is nothing inherently safer about plant derived or non-synthetic. There are lots of “natural” ingredients that are toxic to people.