Avon, Mary Kay, and Estée Lauder Are Paying for Tests on Animals

Please click on and sign Boycott Estee Lauder companies, Avon and Mary Kay for Animal Testing

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After PETA’s massive campaign two decades ago, Avon, Mary Kay, and Estée Lauder ended all tests on animals, but now we have learned that recently, all three companies have been paying for tests on animals at the request of the Chinese government—and that they did not inform PETA or consumers that their policies had changed. We have no choice but to downgrade them by placing them on our list of companies that do test on animals.

Countless rats, guinea pigs, rabbits, and other animals suffer and die every year in cruel and pointless product tests. They have chemicals rubbed into their eyes and onto their raw skin, and they die alone and in pain. As a consumer, these animals need YOU to support companies that don’t perform—or pay others to perform—cruel tests and to ask those that do to stop.

When we learned that the Chinese government requires tests on animals before many cosmetics products can be marketed in China, we immediately contacted all three companies. While we understand that China is an enormous market that these companies aren’t willing to ignore, we had hoped they would take action to eliminate this requirement or push for non-animal test methods to be accepted. Mary Kay has taken some steps to work with officials in China and, at our urging, promised to continue this effort—but Avon and Estée Lauder appear to have gone along with the painful animal tests without objection.

To end these painful tests, PETA is financially supporting the efforts of the Institute for In Vitro Sciences (IIVS), which is putting together a coalition of scientific experts, providing training in non-animal test methods for scientists in China, and working with officials there to promote the acceptance of the more humane testing methods used in the U.S. and Europe.

Fortunately, there are still more than 1,000 companies on our “Don’t Test“ list whose products consumers can buy with a clear conscience.

SPEAK UP! Let Avon, Mary Kay, and Estée Lauder know that you are disappointed in their backsliding and that you will no longer buy the companies’ products as long they are tested on animals!


ADDITIONAL CONTACTS


Avon Products:

Customer Service in the U.S.

Avon Products, Inc.
Global Headquarters
1345 Avenue of the Americas
New York, NY 10105
212-282-5000 main

1-800-FOR AVON (800-367-2866)

Email: dearavon@avon.com

Product Information Center: 1-800-445-2866
Avon.com Customer Service: 1-800-500-2866
mark™ Customer Service: 1-866-633-8627

To contact Avon in a specific market, find the country and click on the country’s language in the link below:

http://www.avoncompany.com/aboutavon/contactus-global.html

*Facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/AvonProductsInc


Mary Kay Products:

Mailing Address:
Mary Kay Inc.
P.O. Box 799045
Dallas, Texas 75379-9045
1-800-MARY KAY
1-800-627-9529

Physical Address:
Mary Kay Inc.
16251 Dallas Parkway
Addison, Texas 75001

*Facebook

https://www.facebook.com/MaryKay


Estee Lauder Products:

Contact page:

http://www.esteelauder.com/customer_service/contact.tmpl

*Facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/EsteeLauder


SAMPLE LETTER:

Subject: Why I Won’t Buy Your Products

Dear Decision Maker,

I was distressed to learn that your company is paying to have your products tested on animals for marketing in China.

Your company has violated the trust of loyal customers, and you have disrespected consumers like me who have counted on your brand for decades largely because of your cruelty-free policies.

I will no longer be purchasing your products, and I will be sharing this disturbing information with everyone I know.

Sincerely,

(YOUR NAME AND COUNTRY)



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Dissection | Testing

behind the glam lacquer
cosmetic paints
and glitz
is an industry
that really sh*ts
torturing animals
in beauty’s name
is ugliness extreme
and a very
bad game:(

Karen Lyons Kalmenson