Global consumer support on ban of animal-tested cosmetics

Then international survey was conducted in the wake of March’s EU-wide ban on cosmetics tested on animals. The ban widened the parameters of the existing prohibition on testing cosmetics on animals within the EU to also apply to the sales of any products tested on animals, regardless of where in the world the tests were carried out. 

 

Canvassing consumers in Canada, Brazil, South Korea, Japan and the US, Humane Society International found resounding endorsements of a ban on cosmetic animal testing across the board. 

 

In Canada, 81% of consumers support a nationwide ban on the testing of cosmetics on animals, while the equivalent figures were 70.2% in South Korea and 67% in Brazil. 

 

As many as 90% of Japanese respondents expressed a wish for manufacturers not to use ingredients “whose safety cannot be determined unless they are tested on animals,” while 75% of American participants said they would feel just as safe – or safer – if methods other than animal testing were used to assess the safety of cosmetics. 

 

More than 50% of Japanese consumers said they feel strongly about the issue of animal testing, while 61% of Brazilian respondents stated that the pain and suffering to animals caused by cosmetic testing was not justified, particularly given the availability on the market of safe, non animal tested, cosmetic products. 

 

The majority of US female consumers across all ages and backgrounds were found to believe that animal testing of cosmetics should be banned in its entirety.