Cruelty Free Friday - companies who test

A list of companies whom you may have thought didn't perform animal testing is below. I've highlighted some of the ones you are likely to have at home and have been buying for years. I think you'll be as stunned as I was the first time I read this list.

• Alcon Labs

• Allergan, Inc.

• American Beauty

• Answer

• Aramis

• Arm & Hammer

• ArmorAll

• Arrid

• Aveda

• Avon

• Axe

• Aziza

• Bain de Soleil

• Ban Roll-on

• Banana Boat

• Bausch & Lomb

• Benckiser

• BenGay

• Biotherm

• Block Drug Co. Inc.

• Bobbi Brown

• Bounty

• Boyle-Midway

• Bristol-Myers Squibb Co.

• Bumble and Bumble

• Cacherel

• Cargill

• Carpet Fresh

• Carter-Wallace

• Chesebrough-Ponds

• Church & Dwight

• Clarion

• Clairol

• Clear Choice

• Clinique

• Clorox

• Commerce Drug Co.

• Consumer Value Stores

• Coppertone

• Coty

• Cover Girl

• Crest

• Daisy Fuentes

• Dana Perfumes

• Darphin

• Dawn

• Del Laboratories

• Desitin

• Dial Corporation

• Diversey

• Donna Karan

• Dove

• Dow Brands

• Drackett Products Co.

• Drano

• EcoLab

• Eli Lilly & Co.

• El Sanofi Inc.

• Elizabeth Arden

• Erno Laszlo

• Estee Lauder

• Faberge

• Fantastik

• Fendi

• Final Net

• Finesse

• First Response

• Flame Glow

• Flirt!

• Garnier

• Giorgio Armani

• Givaudan-Roure

• Glade

• Glass Plus

• Good Skin

• Grassroots

• Helena Rubinstein

• Helene Curtis Industries

• Herbal Essences

• Huggies

• ISO

• Ivory

• Jhirmack

• Jo Malone

• Johnson & Johnson

• Johnson Products Co.

• Jovan

• Kaboom

• Keri

• Kimberly-Clark Corp

• Kiton

• Kiwi Brands

• Kleenex

• La Mer

• Lab Series

• Lady's Choice

• Lancaster

• Lancome

• Lava

• Lever Brothers

• Lipton

• Listerine

• L'Oreal USA

• Lubriderm

• Lux

• Lysol

• MAC Cosmetics

• Mars (candy company)

• Mary Kay

• Matrix Essentials

• Max Factor

• Maybelline

• Mead

• Michael Kors

• Missoni

• Mop & Glo

• Nair

• Naturelle

• Neutrogena

• Neutron Industries, Inc.

• Ojon

• Olean

• Orange Glo

• Origins

• Oscar de la Renta

• OxiClean

• Pantene

• Parfums International

• Pearl Drops

• Pennex

• Pfizer, Inc.

• Pine-Sol

• Plax

• Playtex Corporation

• Pledge

• Polident

• Ponds

• Post-It

• Prescriptives

• Prestige Brands

• Prince Matchabelli

• Proctor & Gamble Co.

• Quintessence

• Raid

• Ralph Lauren Fragrances

• Reckitt Benckiser

PS, here's another crappy thing. Tom's of Maine and Burt's Bees--two companies I was using as alternatives to companies who use animal testing--I have just learned are owned by Colgate and Clorox, companies who do perform animal testing. They are listed as cruelty-free on sites like thevegetariansite.com, peta.org and leapingbunny.org because they are cruelty-free. But they fund companies who are not! Please don't support them. And please write PETA, Leaping Bunny and The Vegetarian Site--and others like them--thanking them for their work but urging them to be more thorough with their list. We cannot make change if we are stuck in ignorance.