Have you seen the advertising for the new face cream, right? It promises it will keep your skin smooth, silky, without a single clogged pore while wrinkles vanish away like magic. The smell is delicious, too right? What about the price? Convenient, of course, because you don’t need to spend loads amounts of money to find a product which will take care of all your minor skin problems. Even better, it’s said it’s not tested on animals, because you too care about those little walking things, which makes you a better person at the end of the day, right? Wrong.

How many of you really care about those products not being tested on animals? While it says on the label, well, you should think it’s true, right again? Wrong again. PETA and cosmetic brands don’t have too much in common, except of animals; still, there are on the two different sides of the barricade. How many companies really care about only using ingredients not tested on animals? The answer is, unfortunately, too few.

Global cosmetic important companies such as Body Shop have successfully manufactured an image of being caring companies that are helping to protect the environment and preventing animal cruelties, which made them really popular companies with hundred of millions of customers across the globe and positive feedback all the way. Still, while they try to create an environmental- friendly image, real things are different and they end up as only being profit companies which don’t actually care about improving and keeping the nature green, or even taking care of animals. Natural products? The Body Shop only gives the impression that its products are made from mostly natural ingredients. In fact, like all big cosmetic suppliers, it makes wide use of non-renewable and non-recycled petrochemicals, synthetic colors, fragrances and preservatives, while in most of its products it uses only tiny amouts of botanical-based or organic ingredients.

Helping animals? Give me a break! Although the Body Shop keeps on bragging about they are against animal testing, they do not always make this clear on their labels, while they don’t make clear either that many of the ingredients used to manufacture the products have been tested on animals by other companies. So, in the end, where’s the solidarity? Where’s the big heart and the non-corporate interests?

Mannatech products are also being tested on animals, which only leads to, once more fairly said,  cruel beauty. Why do we need to test face creams or body butters on cute little bunnies, even lab mice? Still, if you are looking for some real animal cruelty-free products, you might want to check the list adopted by the PETA organization. All listed companies are marked with an * and use non-animal ingredients such as milk and egg byproducts, slaughterhouse byproducts, sheep lanolin or bee wax.

Among listed cosmetic companies that are animal friendly we can name America’s Finest Products, Beauty without Cruelty, Essential Products of America or Greenway Products. On the contrary, some of the most important and world recognized brands such as La Prairie, Elizabeth Arden, Dior, Chanel, Nivea, even Amway, Lancome, Revlon or Gucci do not think that non animal testing is a viable option for their businesses yet and continue the suffering of hundreads of poor animals by their greedy researches and marketing campaigns.