Walking through the cosmetic aisle in a grocery store can be a girl's favorite part of grocery shopping. There is always excitement in buying and trying new products to make ourselves feel beautiful. We spend hours reading the labels of what the products can do for our hair or skin, but we do not look at the ugly side of how these products were made. We do not think about the innocent, little bunnies that bleed from the lethal chemicals injected into their skin that lead to violent seizures and painful death. Millions of animals suffer like this just for the testing process of a product's ingredients. No product is worth the death of so many animals when there are many other, more efficient tests that do not involve or harm animals' lives. Animal testing in the cosmetic industry should be banned, because it is inhumane, expensive and unnecessary for the safety testing procedures of a product's ingredients.
Animal testing has been around for hundreds of years for medical and scientific examinations, but it has just recently become a normal process in the cosmetic industry. These tests are conducted on animals such as rabbits, monkeys, kittens and dogs to determine the safety of a product for humans. The most common tests are on the animal's skin and eyes. The scientists will either clip the animal's eyelids, or shave its stomach to smear toxic chemicals into its eyes or skin. The scientists will leave the animal for weeks to monitor how the toxins affect its skin. Other experiments break animals' necks or behead them with metal rods. Since the animals do not receive any anesthesia, they have to suffer through pain until they are killed, usually by the use of chemicals. Even when the animals are not being tested on, they are still treated inhumanely, starved and kept in cages too small. An estimated 25-50 million animals are treated this way in laboratories each year. Tons of animals are left blinded, paralyzed, or burned for the production of human products.