How to make sure that our cosmetic products are not tested on animals?

You do not want to buy cosmetics tested on animals but you have trouble seeing clearly and do not know where to start?

Between the evasive names, the brands that market in China, the regulations in force... difficult to navigate.

Vegan or cruelty-free?

To find out if the products do not use such animal testing methods, let's take a look at two terms to look out for on the packaging, which do not not cover the same things.

The term "vegan", which indicates the rejection of animal exploitation in all its forms.

"Cruelty-free" is applied to products that are not tested on animals but which may contain animal components (and are therefore not necessarily vegan).

It should be noted that obtaining a label is not an absolute guarantee when it comes to a vegan or cruelty-free brand. A brand can also have one of these labels but belong to a group that tests on other products.

Many brands can also be vegan and cruelty-free without owning a label. You follow ?

And what does the law say?

In 2013, Europe signed a new law banning any cosmetic product whose finished product and ingredients have been tested on animals. A ban that extends to imported products. If in theory this decision should sign the end of animal abuse in cosmetics laboratories, in practice, it is more complicated. Anissa, from PETA France, also underlines the difficulty of finding your way around.

Because there is also the European REACH plan, a regulation that surpasses the legislation of March 2013. This plan requires animal testing when the ingredients of a product are not yet known.

In 2013, continues Anissa, “we welcomed the entry into force of the ban on the testing of cosmetic ingredients on animals and the sale of cosmetic products tested on animals. We thought that thousands of animals would no longer suffer for new mascaras, lipsticks or eye shadows to be made.

Some countries like China impose animal testing for imported products that have a physical point of sale in China. So if a French brand (which does not test in France) wants to sell in China, it will then be necessarily tested by resellers.

To go further

We mentioned above the “vegan” labels. To go a little further, in addition to avoiding products tested on animals, PETA advises us to also check the ingredients of these products and avoid those derived from animal exploitation - and which therefore caused suffering to a animal.

Products that do not contain ingredients of animal origin therefore exclude:

“On the petite noisette blog, you can find the list of brands that are cruelty-free.

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How to find your way?

To be sure to buy a brand without ingredients of animal origin and not tested on animals, you have to go about it in three steps:

While we ask PETA France how to finally understand something about it and make sure not to buy products not tested on animals, Anissa tells us that there are also ways for brands to override the law in force and that it is difficult to know exactly whether they really do not finance animal experimentation.

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