... use of animals in laboratories, especially with proven alternatives readily available. This would suggest that profit motives are imminent and nowhere else is this more apparent as in the cosmetic industry. The origins of product testing on animals stemmed from a 1933 incident involving a woman using Lash Lure mascara (All, 1998). After receiving some of the chemicals in her eye she suffered severe injuries causing blindness and subsequently death. This sparked the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act in 1938 which protected the public from unsafe cosmetics (All, 1998). As a consequence of this act, corporations with huge investments in these products had to introduce ways of protecting their consumers. The use of animals in research for cosmetic products has become a popular and relatively inexpensive method to ensure public safety, however, at the cost of animals. From the view of corporate owners, animal testing on their products ...

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