Animal Testing in the Cosmetic World

When you hear animal testing, what do you think of? Pharmaceuticals and drug testing is what comes to my mind and usually many others. But what about cosmetic animal testing. Just like drug testing, cosmetic testing on animals can still harm our furry friends. They put the animals through a test called LD50 which stands for lethal dose 50%. They test the product or drug on the animals and wait for half of them to die to determine the safety of the product. In this time the animals can suffer from seizures, convulsions, and paralysis. Also, can we talk about how many cosmetic products are launched in a year and how many used animal testing. There can be more than 5 new products launched in a month. Now, there are multiple brands that test on animals, Estée Lauder, Avon, NARS,  Benefit and much more. Every time they put a product out you can bet they had to run everything through animal testing and we are only seeing the final product. Many times these companies go through trials of trying to find the right formula. This leads to wasting lots of money of animal testing when in all reality animals most likely will not respond the same way a human would to the makeup. I know from personal experience there are a few products that I cannot use because they itch or give me a rash and I am not just talking about me having an allergic reaction to an ingredient but friends and family who also cannot use those products. So, in those cases animal testing did them no good and they just wasted a lot of money for a product that doesn't even work. Let me know your thoughts in the comments down below.