Wednesday, February 2, 2011

Spotlight: Chanel's Animal Testing Policy


I did some readin' on the Chanel website and here is the scoop: no testing on animals - sweet! However, they do use some animal derivatives such as beeswax and lanolin.

I wasn't sure what lanolin was so I did some digging on wikipedia. OK, so it's not a scientific journal, but hey. Turns out it comes from sheering sheep. It's a wax that is extracted from the freshly shorn wool. Some people say this is "OK" for vegetarians and some people say it's "Not OK". All depends on how you feel about wool products.

1 comment:

Blauriche said...

From what I've been reading elsewhere, it seems like they buy ingredients that were tested on animals, so it's kind of a grey area...