Comments on: Who owns what in the beauty industry?

By: beautifulwithbrains

beautifulwithbrains — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 19:32:23 +0000

Anana, that of animal testing is a delicate subject. I don’t like animal testing at all, that’s just cruel but I understand why some companies do it. If you include a new ingredient in a product without any or very few testing someone could have a serious or even deadly reaction to it. On the other hand, testing the same ingredients lots of times during the years is not only cruel, but useless as you already know what the results are going to be.

But unfortunately, trying to avoid products tested on animals is not so easy. That’s because even if a company doesn’t test the finished products on animals or does no tests on animal at all, each ingredient the company uses has been tested at some point by someone else.

But the good news is, scientists are developing new ways of testing ingredients and products that in the (hopefully very near) future will replace animal testing once and for all.

By: anana

anana — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 22:39:41 +0000

man, that’s stressful. I only just started thinking recently about animal testing, and knowing that loreal owns body shop? that stresses me out. Why can’t all of Loreal’s businesses have ethical treatment of people, the environment, and animals?!!!
Now I have a huge list of places I can’t buy makeup from because they all test on animals etc

By: beautifulwithbrains

beautifulwithbrains — Fri, 08 May 2009 19:19:57 +0000

Hi Lindsay, it’s really sad when that happens. I really like MAC, but since Estee Lauder bought it the prices have been increasing, the sizes of products are getting smaller and the quality isn’t as good as it used to be. I guess they do it to make the highest profit with the smaller cost on their party, but it’s a shame to see great brands go downhill. Companies would make lots more money by releasing great products in the first place.

By: Lindsay

Lindsay — Thu, 07 May 2009 19:14:22 +0000

I think it s shame that the big companies take over all the brands that are very good, for instance sebastian products were brilliant particularly potion 9. Wella took them over and now they are just good. The content seems to change in products when companies are taken over by the big boys. I do not know whether theusual decline is purely to save on costs or to also to maximise profit, giving us products that do not work; if they can make the product so that it really does not work then people will buy more different products to find one that does – given thiese lists of ownership it would more than likely be a round trip around all the lines they own without the customer even knowing it. As for all these beauty products for eyes nothing works better than plain old touch of vaseline- lets see them change that !!!

By: beautifulwithbrains

beautifulwithbrains — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 13:00:32 +0000

Cinthia: you’re welcome. I was suprised by how many brands ste lauder owns, too!

Connie: I didn’t know that. That is some interesting info! Thanks for sharing.