Cruelty Free International released figures that an estimated 500,000 animals continue to be used annually in animal testing for cosmetics. This roughly equates to 1,390 animals possibly harmed every day.

Here’s more. Did you know that testing even a single ingredient for a deodorant, hair dye or sunscreen—even with guidelines set by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)—can easily involve the death of around 1,400 animals? Alarming as the number may sound, it cannot be avoided because in most countries, there is no law requiring cosmetic testing data to be made available to the public or even to regulators.

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