Do you use non-tested cosmetics and house products?

I'm curious as to how many veggies and vegans are careful they don't buy products that have been tested on animals. Thanks for your answers :-)Do you use non-tested cosmetics and house products?
I am vegetarian and have been for many, many years and always make sure that anything I purchase has not been tested on animals. I will not even take any medication even if prescribed if I am in any doubt of what they contain or have been tested on. Nice to hear somebody after my own heart.Do you use non-tested cosmetics and house products?
Thanks vegan kitty for choosing my answer as the best as there were several good ones. I like you am surprised at how many people bother to check their products so carefully. Report Abuse

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I use the Co-op's own brand,for bleach and other cleaning products,as they are approved by the Buav.Products made by Astonish are reasonably cheap and are approved.
I always buy non-tested products as soap, shampoo, and more recently house products.


The problem is that they're so expensive and not easily foundable (in France) that a lot of people don't buy them.


In Israel, all shampoos and soaps are non-tested and very cheap.
I have been veggie for about 25 years and have used exclusively non-animal tested and environmentally conscious 'cosmetics' and cleaning products for about the last 20.





They have been much easier ot find of late, but one has to be careful - some make product claims that are specious, to say the least, especially on contents of their products and the breakdown rates that they have in the environment.





Animal testing gives plenty of 'false positives' - ie: things seems safe on the animal but aren't to humans; and plenty of 'false negatives' things that are toxic to animals (chocolate to dogs, for instance, or onions to cats) but not humans.





It is difficult when it comes to 'proprietary' medicines, however. There are all kinds of experiments done an a variety of animals before medicines can be passed. This leads to all kinds of difficult choices. And the naysayers on here likely argument will be that people who are against animal cruelty want to see children die. Absurd and pointless, but they'll no doubt make it anyway.
Yep. I do my best to find products that are not tested on animals and shop at Lush because they have a very strict no-animal-testing policy.
Yes, I DEFINATELY make sure the products I use aren't tested on animals!


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I try to use as many organic/natural cosmetics as I can.





(I don't use the Body Shop, Because they do accept ingredients that are tested on animals.)





I also make sure my products don't have animal ingredients in them (Such as Gelatin)
I'm not a vegetarian, but it's always been important to me. And I buy my soaps and detergents from a vegan store...they don't even sell honey there, so it must be ok!





In fact, I seem to recall signing petitions on the topic at school, so I've always been this way! Also, when I worked in Superdrug, the company were very proud of the fact that their products weren't tested on animals, at a time when so many other companies were.





Oh, and Anita Roddick was a big fat f*cking sell-out. Selling the Body Shop to those scumbags L'Oreal was a hideous thing to do. Like she gives a crap anymore!
Well,of course vegans shouldn't use products tested on animals,otherwise they aren't vegans.
Absolutely. I like cosmetics owned by Estee Lauder (PETA approved company) so Estee Lauder, Bobbi Brown, MAC, Chanel, Bumble and Bumble, Stila, Revlon is also good. I like Method cleaning products as they are not tested on animals, are nontoxic, and biodegradable.
Effectivement, quelqu'un qui utilise (pas seulement ach猫te !) des produits cosm茅tiques ou d'entretien test茅s sur Animaux ne peut se pr茅tendre Vegan. On peut m锚me aller plus loin et ne pas utiliser (sauf cas de maladies graves ou besoin d'une anesth茅sie) de m茅dicaments : combien de femmes vegan prennent la pilule, dont les oestrog猫nes sont faites d'urine de jument (maltrait茅es !) et la progest茅rone d'ovaires de vaches ?! De m锚me que certains lubrifiants de pr茅servatifs ne sont pas clean, il faut opter pour un DIU (dispositif intra-ut茅rain = st茅rilet) en plastique et cuivre (spermicide naturel) : le UT 380, un mod猫le short existant pour les femmes n'ayant jamais eu d'enfant.


Il est aga莽ant 茅galement de voir que de nombreux vegan fument des cigarettes test茅es sur animaux (autres que les natural am茅rican spirit) !!! Shame on you !!!


Pour les cosm茅tiques, je participe 脿 des stands o霉 nous distribuons la liste des produits non test茅s sur animaux.


Pour les m茅dicaments, nous n'agissons pas sur les consommateurs mais directement sur les labos, par le biais de manifs, les prochaines ce vendredi 21 en IDF, avis aux ammateurs (trices) ...





GO VEGAN OR DIE !
I try my best will that do.
I think some people don't even know about animal tests and i'm sure a lot of people don't imagine how it is really ? How many know how cruel it is ? How many know how useless it is (yes, it's useless, it has been proven) ? How many know the huge number of animals killed by this way ? How many know that some product are testes many times (yes, same products for same effects) ?





Most of veggies i've seen are very compassionate but it's difficult to realize how crual is the reallity. I can't blame people for just never heard of something.





I want to add something for some who understand french in this topic. Most of vegans are not so aggressive nor so fundamentalist (i'm not sure it's the right word). We are generally peaceful people who simply want that every being could live happy and free. Veganism is about compassion, aggression is not. Someone who say people have to die, is not not vegan .





So to enventually answer the question: yes i care, not because i'm vegan but because i'm compassionate.
I am not a veggie or a vegan because I do enjoy meat, however I do not believe in killing animals for any other reason than food - so I do shop carefully for products that are non-animal tested etc. However, i believe everybody has freedom of choice and I would not tut tut at any friend of mine buying products to suit themselves.
I have to look at it like this... if you buy a product that has not been tested on animals and use it yourself... you are still testing it on an animal. I choose to try to make the designation in what I believe in that there is no ';useless'; testing of anything. If it wasn't tested on animals... you are basicly allowing a manufacturer, who runs a buisness for profit, to not only tell you that the product is safe but also to allow an out for lawsuits if it harms you down the road by stating on the bottle that this product is untested. I just don't trust any buisness enough to put something together where they have the governs over both of those conditions...
When I first became a vegetarian over 20 years ago, buying cosmetics and cleaning products that had not been tested on animals were extremely difficult and they were very hard to find. Thankfully that is not the case today, even if you鈥檙e not a vegetarian or vegan to buy these products not tested on animals is very simple as all leading supermarkets sell them in abundance.
Yes I make sure to check the labels or contact the companies about their animal testing policies before I buy them. I have realised that it's extremely difficult to buy products which have had nothing to do with animal testing though. For example, Faith in nature shampoo says it's vegan, is buav approved and the raw materials haven't been tested on animals since 1988. They've won the ethical consumer award and I buy their products because they are not supporting the animal testing industry. But their products have benefitted from animal testing, even though it was 20 years ago. So I think it's pretty much impossible to buy products that have ingredients which have never been tested on animals. The important thing for me though is to support companies which no longer support the animal testing industry.
not on my food i don`t





i like the wife to test it first





but would still not eat it if it had cosmetics on it


YEUCK wife's cooking is bad enough without


mascara and lipstick YEUCK
How would i now
Yes I do, and if I cant find it, I try the best I can to improvise
Of course I make sure! Do you?