Animal Testing Pros

The doors of a research laboratory may seem like their sole purpose is to separate rooms, but what happens behind them is the ugly reality to cosmetic beauty. The animal life that enters trough those doors begins to slowly and painfully fade away as scientific experimentation takes away the creature’s light. The truth is that countless animals are exposed to humiliating pain from chemicals in beauty products that often lead to their death. Animal testing has been used for ages to explore the anatomical structure of creatures and test possible cures or dangerous chemicals without endangering the safety of humans. However, cosmetic products are taking advantage of animal testing by inflicting avoidable pain in defenseless creatures to create products that do not contribute to essential cures. Various cosmetic companies choose to perform animals testing in order to create products at a faster time and cheaper cost.

Products tested on animals can be potentially unreliable due to the differences of structure between humans and animals. Consequently, chemicals tested on a rabbit or other species may have different effects when applied to a human. Since factors such as the stress animals suffer in the lab affect their blood pressure and muscular activity (Humane Society International), results become erratic. The variation of results on animals can cause the release of dangerous chemicals to the market. Furthermore, without concrete and constant factors, cosmetic companies will be constantly haunted by the consumer’s negative remarks on the efficiency of the product. Therefore, on the long run animal testing only creates research limitations, but also hurts the companies’ reputation and the consumer’s health. More importantly, the lives sacrificed to create such products would be for nothing else than to depict humans as merciless