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Small guide to buying cosmetics "cruelty free" - Part I

Beware of misleading!
with contributions from Sarah Bruno

The Facebook group dedicated to Natividad discussed in these days of cruelty free cosmetics .
The argument, as an image, is strongly felt, especially by women: it is no accident that, for the LAV Banquet information, the booklet is no longer required just one dedicated to beauty products not tested on animals.
Together with some dear friends, so I'm gathering information on the various certifications and the quality and reliability of companies with the intent to produce a useful little guide, to prevent economic fraud and thus continue to safeguard the rights of animals.
addition to listing the companies to avoid (such lists can be found everywhere now, the web), we will focus also on the same products we tested, in order to inform you in the manner as complete as possible on their quality.

start with a "parade" on the various terms which can be found on the packaging of cosmetics: as we shall see, some of them may be misleading because, in reality, are not very clear about the tests carried out on animals or any animal matter present in the finished product.
The list was compiled and commented by Sara Di Bruno :

• finished product not tested on animals
This writing is a joke to confuse those looking for a product not tested: it long ago not is required to test the finished product on animals - and of course are fewer and fewer companies that do, not to have unnecessary expenses. However the word in fact means that ingredients that compose the product have been tested on animals, if taken after 1976. On that date, in fact, has introduced an obligation to check on "animal model" the ingredients of the new wording. All the ingredients first and to date no longer be compulsory testing.

• Product not tested on animals
is equivalent to the written above, gives no specific information: the finished product, by law, can not be tested on animals, and probably is not. But the product is the set of components that, if the new wording and legal obligation necessarily been tested.

• Clinically tested
means that the product has been tested on human volunteers, but that does not mean it has not been tested on animals also (or may have been the ingredients components).

• dermatologically tested
means that the product (or ingredients) have been tested on the skin. But the skin of humans or animals? The law does not require having to be indicated.

So what? How to untangle the jungle of information provided to us by manufacturers so cryptic? The certificates will perhaps be of some help, as will be seen in the next article ...