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Sun Feb 08, 2004 8:08 am  |
I tried a sample of Nars aqua gel mask, a moisturizing mask you can sleep with on. My skin loved it, but unfortunately I recently learned that Nars has partnered with Shiseido the corporate giant that still performs animal testing, so
I refuse to support Nars now. So now I am on the search for a comparable moisture mask that will heal dehydration. Any recs. ? |
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Sun Feb 08, 2004 8:22 pm |
I can't believe some cosmetic companies are still testing on animals. There are so many alternatives to those cruel tests--there's no excuse for it!! 
I was going to buy the new Shiseido sunblock 50, but not anymore. Thanks. |
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Mon Feb 09, 2004 7:24 am |
| i mean comon!!! animal testin??? thats just bloody cruel! i mean fair enough in the stone age when people ran around in the nuddie,chased dinosaurs and hit each other on the head with sticks but NOW!!!! thats just cruel!!!!!! |
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Mon Feb 09, 2004 8:07 pm |
Especially now when there are many alternatives, there really is no excuse for animal testing. Cosmetic testing is not required in the U.S., just pharmaceuticals. But some companies refuse to change their ways like Proctor & Gamble. and then there are others that used to test, but later actually sponsored testing-alternatives such as Revlon and Avon. Here are some alternatives I found FYI:
Eytex
Produced by the National Testing Corp. in Palm Springs, California, Eytex is an in-vitro (test-tube) procedure that measures eye irritancy via a protein alteration system. A vegetable protein from the jack bean mimics the reaction of the cornea to an alien substance. This alternative is used by Avon instead of the cruel Draize eye irritancy test.
Skintex
An in-vitro method to assess skin irritancy that uses pumpkin rind to mimic the reaction of a foreign substance on human skin (both Eytex and Skintex can measure 5,000 different materials).
EpiPack
Produced by Clonetics in San Diego, California, the EpiPack uses cloned human tissue to test potentially harmful substances.
Neutral Red Bioassay
Developed at Rockefeller University and promoted by Clonetics, the Neutral Red Bioassay is cultured human cells that are used to compute the absorption of a water-soluble dye to measure relative toxicity.
Testskin
Produced by Organogenesis in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Testskin uses human skin grown in a sterile plastic bag and can be used for measuring irritancy, etc. (this method is used by Avon, Amway, and Estee Lauder).
TOPKAT
Produced by Health Design, Inc. in Rochester, New York, TOPKAT is a computer software program that measures toxicity, mutagenicity, carcinogenicity, and teratonogenicity (this method is used by the U.S. Army, the Environmental Protection Agency, and the Food and Drug Administration).
Ames Test
Tests for carcinogenicity by mixing a test culture with Salmonella typhimurium and adding activating enzymes. It was able to detect 156 out of 174 (90%) animal carcinogens and 90 out of 100 (88%) non-carcinogenes.
Agarose Diffusion Method
Tests for toxicity of plastic and synthetic devices used in medical devices such as heart valves, artificial joints, and intravenous lines. Human cells and the test material are placed in a flask and are separated by a thin-layer of agarose (a derivative of seaweed agar). If the material tested is an irritant, an area of killed cells appears around the substance.
Today, in-vitro (meaning, literally, "in glass") as opposed to in-vivo (meaning "whole animal") has flourished because of advances in tissue culture techniques and other analytical methods.
(source is allforanimals.com)
Got a little off topic, but still looking for a good moisturizing mask!
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Tue Feb 10, 2004 1:14 am |
W w, thanks for the info. For years I supported PETA and received their literature, so I knew there were alternatives. I didn't know things had advanced to the point of cloned human cells and tissue grown in plastic bags. Fascinating!!!
--Alohagirl (Looking forward to an enlightened future where animal cruelty is only a shameful memory) |
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