L'Oreal on the right track...

[Coopdog]

I just stumbled across this by accident. Kudos to L'Oreal for pioneering the use of this technology to test their products. Lets hope other manufacturers get on board quickly!

L'Oreal surge ahead in anti-animal testing drive

[SerpentineSylph]

That is just too cool! Go L'Oreal!

[AbsLoveSnicks]

Yay! I'm also glad a the Bath&Body Works has on the back of every product "This finished product is not tested on animals"

[Lydia]

Huh.... glad to see they're finally getting there! Revlon hasn't been testing on animals for quite a long time, but L'Oreal still has been. PETA has a listing of companies which do/don't test for anyone who's interested in knowing...

Caring Consumer // Resources // Companies That Do/That Don't Test on Animals

[Wheek Weak]

They will NOT get my business. They've ignored me (and many, many others) for 26 years (at least).

I started boycotting L'Oreal in 1982 because of their hard-nosed stance against giving up animal-testing. Even though Revlon and Avon willingly discontinued the barbaric practice around that time.

L'Oreal has pretty much just flipped off the people like me who have protested, written letters, and begged for the past 26 years to stop unnecessary animal testing. We have tried to get them to explain why they still needed to do it, while Revlon and Avon had found alternate testing methods.

In my case, I never did get a satisfactory answer. The gist of their responses was that they would do what they wanted to do...period. So, in turn, I will too. I'll continue to buy from Revlon and Avon. Companies that care about what their customers care about.

L'Oreal lost my business permanantly a long time ago...regardless of what they are finally going to do 26 years later. That's a long time for someone to tell you to go take a flying leap. And I won't forget it.

[thalestral]

So you mean that if a company changes its ways and stops animal testing you won't support it anyway? I'm not sure that is the way to convince them and other companies to give up animal testing, by removing the incentive of more customers. Is the company still run by the same people that ran it over the last 26 years?

I'd be interested to know if their buy out of the Body Shop had any influence on this as I believe that is what the Body Shop founder stated she hoped to do by the sale - to influence the parent company from the inside.

[Wheek Weak]

Originally Posted by thalestral

I'd be interested to know if their buy out of the Body Shop had any influence on this as I believe that is what the Body Shop founder stated she hoped to do by the sale - to influence the parent company from the inside.

If it takes a company buy-out to do what customers have begged for years and years for them to do...I don't consider that incentive for me to reward them for conceding to the wishes of their customers.

If they cared what I - as a customer - wanted...they would have listened and considered the concerns that I have been conveying to them for the past three decades.

[Char-x]

Originally Posted by Wheek Weak

If it takes a company buy-out to do what customers have begged for years and years for them to do...I don't consider that incentive for me to reward them for conceding to the wishes of their customers.

If they cared what I - as a customer - wanted...they would have listened and considered the concerns that I have been conveying to them for the past three decades.

Not sure if I'm getting this right but isn't a buy out when someone completely new takes over the company? Surely if it is, and you begin buying from them now you will be showing "praise" to the new owners for not continuing in animal tests as the people who stuck their middle fingers up to people like us - I too wrote many times etc won't be apart of it anymore ? If that makes any sense. After Ralph Lauren stopped using fur I wrote them a letter praising their choice etc and they replied saying they are very happy they done so because of the great responce...which tells me that if word gets out that no animal testing/no fur etc = more business it will send a positive message out to businesses that are still doing un-ethical things.

I don't think they will be getting my customs anyway since I don't like their products anyway.

Do L'Oreal own Maybelline? I hope so since everyone I know uses that Moose foundation and it frustrated me how much profit an animal testing company are getting. Personally I wear Avon and MAC.

[thalestral]

Originally Posted by Wheek Weak

If they cared what I - as a customer - wanted...they would have listened and considered the concerns that I have been conveying to them for the past three decades.

Hmm, I just think it is worthy of celebration whenever anyone makes a chance for the better, no matter how long it takes. Progress is progress and I would rather they knew people approved than fall back to their old ways.

[Char-x]

Originally Posted by thalestral

Hmm, I just think it is worthy of celebration whenever anyone makes a chance for the better, no matter how long it takes. Progress is progress and I would rather they knew people approved than fall back to their old ways.

Couldn't agree more :] It encourages others to do the same!

[LucyJane]

Originally Posted by AbsLoveSnicks

Yay! I'm also glad a the Bath&Body Works has on the back of every product "This finished product is not tested on animals"

Unfortunately, "This finished product... etc. " does *not* mean that a company does not test individual ingredients, or partial products, on animals. Or buy ingredients that have been tested on animals. It only means that this particular finished product was not. I am always suspicious of the "finished product" line, as in my opinion it is a way for companies to *appear* to care about animal welfare while still testing on animals.

A quick google search will turn up plenty of cosmetic companies that are completely animal friendly.

PS Disclaimer: I do not know about Bath and Body Works specifically, as I don't use their products. I am speaking of that term in general.