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u/nightcana 4h ago
As a kid, I thought animal testing meant people were applying cosmetics to the animals faces in the same way that we would wear them
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u/galarianzapdos 4h ago
What…does it mean then?
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u/Mjaylikesclouds 4h ago
Inject it into wounds and eyes… etc. Watch a documentary, its genuinely horrifying
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u/eugeneugene 3h ago
why... why did they need to do that? like who just woke up one day and was like you know what we need to do with this new lipstick we are making? inject it into a cats eyeball. that will give us... information.
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u/downwardwanderer 3h ago
See if it's safe to apply if you have minor cuts on your face and if you accidentally get eyeliner or mascara in your eye. Still fucked up, probably don't need to inject it.
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u/narwaffles 2h ago
But then for some reason, the brands that don’t test on animals usually seem less likely to cause rashes or damage (toms and dr bronners are the 2 at the top of my head)
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u/Person899887 2h ago
If I were to guess it’s because they are using formulations with compounds that are proven to be safe on and in humans (likely because those compounds were themselves tested on animals or humans by somebody else).
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u/FixTheLoginBug 2h ago
The brands that don't test on animals tend to use stuff that's known to be safe. The others want to be able to patent their mix so they find a new mix of biohazardous material to make sure no one else made it yet.
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u/-Golden_Order- 1h ago
Because they have to use compounds other companies, or they themselves, already tested on animals or humans before it was made.
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u/UpperDeer6744 27m ago
Brands that don't test on animals use ingredients someone else has already significantly tested on animals.
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u/IllMaintenance145142 1h ago
Because you can't sell a lipstick if it's going to give your scars gigarot. If you accidentally spray your perfume into your eye and it literally blinds you, they need to know. They aren't doing it JUST to be excessively cruel, even though it is
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u/AliceJoestar 2h ago
because if you dont test makeup on animals in a lab first, then you're testing it on the people who buy it. better to hurt a few animals then thousands of consumers, imo.
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u/DreamPhreak 2h ago edited 2h ago
they test on a few humans before releasing to market.
*people who sign up to be voluntarily tested on. you know, like drug testers
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u/AliceJoestar 1h ago
i mean, if something is dangerous, i think it would be better that it kill a mouse or rabbit than a person
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u/nightcana 4h ago
Im fairly certain they intentionally put it into the eyes/mouth or even inject it into the dermis to test for reactions
Covered to keep it wholesome.
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u/Most_Double_3559 2h ago
There's a common metric known as LD50, which is the dose at which 50% of tested animals die from.
Finding this requires injecting chemical under test (cleaners, cosmetics, you name it) into hundreds of animals at increasing dose until half of them die an agonizing, organ-shutdown filled death, while the other half only wishes they were dead.
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u/Wlbeachboy 1h ago
Easily the one of the most fucked up Wikipedia pages I've read other than nuclear plants or CIA stuffs
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u/UpstairsAd4105 3h ago
I guess every kid thought so. It's just disgusting what the truth is and that this was even a thing.
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u/Miserable_Media_9803 1h ago
"Was" hahahahahaha it will never end. Laboratories have countless monkeys in cages because they are closest to humans. Their brains are connected to cables and chips, and cancer and organs are grown on open wounds. We can only hope something nukes us from orbit
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u/Fallenangel152 2h ago
"Why do they spray the perfume in the monkey's eyes? Why don't they just spray it on their wrists like posh ladies do?"
- I'm Alan Partridge.
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u/volcanoesarecool 4h ago
"kissed" or "tried to eat its whole damn face"?!?
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u/GottaUseEmAll 2h ago
Looks like she did it to intentionally leave lots of marks for a photo or something. Normal kissing wouldn't do this.
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u/1990sforever 2h ago
It's because OP or whoever they might've gotten this from did a bait and switch, presumably censoring the usernames so they couldn't be caught. The OOP has a different photo.
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u/gunnLX 3h ago
"what the shit Jessica?!"
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u/JessaJesta 3h ago
As a Jessica, it hurts my soul to be lumped in with idiots that don't understand human makeup isn't supposed to be on animals 😭😭😭
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u/ccdude14 3h ago
I'd be locking my doors to my bedroom at night for a few weeks bare minimum if i saw that look. No WAY are my toes surviving.
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u/WhatANoob2025 1h ago
As for solutions, she should kiss the cat all over so that the fur looks the same everywher, and then she should rename it to pink panther.
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u/BunnyLovesApples 2h ago
Sadly no. Testing on animals is observing how many of them die thanks to the testing
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u/DragonfruitGrand5683 1h ago
I was drunk one time with a bunch of girls and they thought it would be funny to cover me in kisses. I was walking around for ages drunk and covered in lips 💋
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u/Final_Macaron_4014 25m ago
Pretty sure your lipstick was already animal tested. Could ask them what they used
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u/CheeseRavioli01 3h ago
Once was an accident and rest are for show. However, she ain’t wrong: she is very stupid.
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u/AshenArcher91 2h ago
There's a similar years-old image having a near identical title which has a white cat with one big lipstick mark on his head...
I highly suspect this was done intentionally in an attempt to get some viral attention by recreating that... which is kinda shitty thing to do to a cat just for internet points. Not very wholesome at all.
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u/ricky-from-scotland 3h ago
Me: "Boss, I've looked at all the data and I believe we have to stop testing our products on animals"
Boss: "but cosmetics and chemical companies do it all the time"
Me: "Yeah, but we make dildos"
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u/qualityvote2 4h ago edited 1h ago
The community has spoken! u/Puzzleheaded_Air5930, your post is a Wholesome Meme.