There are many alternatives to animal testing that can be applied to cosmetic testing. These alternatives are seen as more ethical than the use of animals and more accurately apply to human biology instead of animal biology.
One alternative for animal testing is to test on humans. Human testing has been used in many cases so long as it doesn’t prove to damage the subject. However, this is not a suitable replacement for animal cosmetic testing. Nearly all the tests that the animals are required to go through cause severe discomfort and pain. To put a human through this is not only unethical but also illegal. Because of this humans used in cosmetic experiments are given much smaller amounts of chemicals in relation to their body mass than what the animals would be given. This is known as Microdosing. The results of the test rely on how the body processes the chemicals. Microdosing doesn’t work as well as other alternatives because of the potential dangers surrounding it. Although the risk is very small to the human subjects there is a social idea of animal testing overall being very dangerous - which usually drives away potential subjects. Money is also an issue as the companies have to pay for the tests and to humans participating in them.
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This means that the overall product wouldn’t need testing. This method isn’t much of an alternative and is used more as a loophole by companies. It is a way of winning over the public by being able to legally say that that their product doesn’t test on animals. Because of this, specific labels have been put on products to ensure the public know that the products and the ingredients are both not tested on animals. The symbol denoting this is the ‘leaping rabbit’ . All other rabbit labels mean that the overall product doesn’t test on animals but the ingredients