RABBIT RALPH AND ANIMAL EXPERIMENTS

Many of you have watched Rabbit Ralph's video. In the video, we watch a day of the Experimental Rabbit Ralph, who is having breakfast with cereal on the kitchen table in his home in the morning and tells about the usual flow of his life. Ralph and the other animals in the video, who started his work with a hand in a white coat picking him up while eating breakfast, the animals begging, shouting, crying animals, painful tests on them, and Ralph, who was even more injured than the day before As an irony, the video ends when I hear his words that this is his job and he has to do it.

CUTE RABBITS, KITTENS... ALL TRY THE PRODUCTS YOU USE FOR YOU

Although only sweet rabbits play a role in this animation, in real life, hedgehogs, rabbits, monkeys, your cute cats and dogs that you feed in your homes are also used. There are videos on YouTube that some of you cannot bear to see or hear their voices with their eyes closed. I do not give links here due to sensitive content, but anyone can reach hundreds of videos by simply writing animal experiments / animal testing.

Do animals really need to suffer just because the lipstick on my lips will be more permanent or my mascara won't run off in rainy weather?

VEGAN OR CRUELTY FREE?

Obviously, I have been looking at phrases such as whether it is vegan, cruelty free, tested on animals, does it contain micro plastics, is its package recyclable or biodegradable… for many years. However, with the influence of the popular Rabbit Ralph video, I started doing some more detailed research on the makeup remover I was about to buy.

WHAT IS CRUELTY FREE? IS IT TESTED ON ANIMALS?

Cruelty free: Cruelty means inhumaneness and this logo only shows us that the final product, the product you hold in your hand, has not been tested on animals. However, its ingredients, namely the main components, may have been tested on animals. This shows that the product is somewhat innocent, but not entirely innocent. Because raw material suppliers may be testing the ingredients, the ingredients used in them, on animals. Our cruelty-free brand, which we hold in our hands, takes these raw materials that have been tested on animals. combining it and not testing this mixture on animals. If the company did not explain it separately, we cannot be sure about it. In this case, just seeing the rabbit logo is not enough.

Now let's continue to dig through what you hold, the jar, the package… a little more. The label isn't too hard to read, if you've never heard of it and it's not eaten, it's probably not that clean. If it is a proper brand and it writes its labels in detail; maybe we can see these concepts: Non-Animal Testing, Raw Material Testing, Controlled Human-use Testing

WHAT DOES VEGAN MEAN?

The fact that a product is vegan means that it does not contain an animal product. However, the product may still be tested on animals.

WHAR ARE THE ANIMAL PRODUCTS?

Labels can be quite confusing when we go to a cosmetics store. Okay, now we know a little more about Paraben, SLS, Sulfate, Micro Plastics… or at least we have heard from right and left that these are harmful for us.

So products that do not contain animal ingredients are called VEGAN. However, the herbal products in question may also be tested on sweet animals to make our cheeks look red and our hair look brighter.

AN EXAMPLE OF LABEL READING

I asked a few of my friends if they were tested on animals about a couple of brands we used to love before. For example, the make-up remover I have used for many years was L'occitane cleansers that foamed when in contact with water. The company called me and offered a very nice discount, ordered from WhatsApp and delivered the products to my home. It was obviously tempting. But when I researched the company's policy on animal testing, I did not see any indication that they did not test on animals. But they explain that they use 95% herbal content, water-soluble and non-residue content on human skin, and that they keep the content that can be considered harmful very limited at the bottom of their page under the title of clean content. In addition, there is the following phrase on the internet sites. "We never use controversial ingredients such as parabens, phthalates, and animal ingredients in our formulas, even though legislation allows, due to their potential impact on the environment, health, or for ethical reasons." This is exactly an example of the subject I explained above. The content is clean, they do not use animal ingredients, but there is no vegan or cruelty free logo on the product. This means that some of the ingredients may be tested on animals. But it's a good example to start somewhere.

So what happened in the end, again Isana Facial Cleansing Oil (Rose and Almond) as an alternative to L'occitane Infusions Oil-To-Milk Facial Make-up Remover - Infusions Cleansing Oil (price 190TL, 200ml) I buy it with oil content, 39.90TL, 100ml). (I leave here as an example a Turkish brand that does not contain make-up remover oil in their product range but does not test on animals and uses clean ingredients here, Farmasi. They have clearly written that they use clean ingredients on their websites and that they do not do animal tests. It can be examined for both personal care and other hygienic products.)