Are you an active makeup user? Have you ever wondered exactly what it takes to obtain that mascara you are currently using? Countless animals today suffer due to painful tests done by cosmetic companies which sole purpose is to create the newest skin creams, hair dyes, and makeup for their buyers. Animal testing has existed for a very long time, but now many countries are taking steps to ban the sale of cosmetics containing ingredients tested on animals. If you open up your makeup bag most likely you will come across a product that has been tested on an animal. In this essay I will explain animal testing in terms of animals tested on, type of testing, Europe new strategy for cosmetics, cruelty and non-cruelty makeup. Rabbits, …show more content…
Next, the “3D Skin Modle” a project developed using human reconstructed skin (RS) models with the combinations of micronucleus (MN) as well as Comet assays. These models reflect the use of conditions that dermally are applied to products, such as that of cosmetics. These two assays are going good and new stages of them are being created to make it that much better (Pfunder). “Metabolism” is the last of the three projects that investigated enzymes of the skin among humans then reconstructed them into skin models. The “3D Skin Model” combined with the “Metabolism” project determined that the capacity of metabolic is compatible to that of human skin, with this they confirmed that the project is useful (Pfunder). There are still some cosmetic lines that continue to use animal testing for their cosmetic lines such as MAC a well know cosmetic line. MAC admits to the use of animal testing they say that they hate the fact that animal testing even exist. This company was one of the first beauty companies that used alternative animal testing nearly a decade ago (MAC Cosmetics). According to MAC alternative testing does exist, but it does not extent anywhere else. The cosmetic line does not personally test on animals themselves, but due to requirements by law products and ingredients can be