The politics of beauty labels — regarding animal cruelty, but also consumer health — are heated.
Author:Jessica OurismanUpdated:Feb 26, 2020Original:Feb 26, 2020On Jan. 1 of this year, the 2018 Humane Cosmetics Act of California went into effect, banning the sale of cosmetics that have been tested on animals. Both Illinois and Nevada signed equivalent bills, with federal-level legislation to possibly follow in the not-too-distant future.
Should it pass, the federal-level HCA will address this type of discrepancy. Victoria Katrinak, Manager of Animal Research & Testing at The Humane Society of the United States, shares, "The new HCA language ... would prohibit a company from putting a cruelty-free label on their product if it was tested...to satisfy foreign testing requirements.
Another oft-cited regulatory loophole permits hidden phthalates to go undisclosed in products listing synthetic fragrance as an ingredient. Consumer watch groups have arisen to make up for the lack of governmental oversight, with organizations like Safe Cosmetics and the Environmental Working Group raising awareness and advocating for change.
The perils of labeling do not stop there, yet the matter is complex. On the one hand, Yarbrough points out that a sense of safety is largely subjective and that the government might not be the appropriate entity to make such determinations. "Should the government get to decide what those mean?" she asks, "Probably not… And even if they did, brands would find a way around it, coming up with new unregulated labels to slap on a bottle.
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