Animal testing is a very cruel, unethical and inaccurate way to test cosmetic and cleaning products for safety. Human and animal testing agree only 5-25% of the time, according to Huntingdon Life Sciences and can be replaced by 450 methods! So not only are these tests unnecessary, but cruel. Two examples of this are the LD50 test, in which Grups of animals are dosed with different amounts of a test substance in order to determine the dose which kills half of the animals, and the Draize eye-and skin-irritation test, in which rabbits are in full-body restraints while a substance is dripped or smeared into their eyes or onto their shaved skin.
According to LeapingBunny.org ",In 1990, Revlon became one of the first large cosmetic companies to declare that it would not engage in animal testing for its products. However, Revlon still has not opened its animal testing policy up to scrutiny by signing onto the Coalition for Consumer Information on Cosmetics’ (CCIC) Leaping Bunny Program." It is important that they release this information because many companies choose not to join the Leaping Bunny Program because they continue to conduct or commission animal testing for their ingredients or formulations. Let's all ban together to get Revlon to stop animal cruelty!