Stop Botox animal testing!

Botox is the brand name of one of the products containing the nerve poison botulinum toxin. The toxin is used for medical, and increasingly for cosmetic applications. A small injection causes facial wrinkles to disappear for several months. But the price for the short term beauty is paid for by the suffering and death of thousands of mice. The substance is injected into the abdomen of mice. The mice undergo paralysis and respiratory distress. After three or four days of suffering they die from suffocation. An estimated 600,000 mice are subjected worldwide to this cruel death every year. Animal-free testing methods are available, but it is in the hands of the manufacturers to use them. 

Success!

In June 2011 and early 2012 the American company Allergan received approval for an alternative test method for their botox products in the U.S. and the EU respectively. The test is based on human cells and does not use any animals. This proves that it is possible to test botox without animal cruelty. The other two major companies, Ipsen and Merz, are still using the cruel and outdated LD50 test.

This partial victory shows that targeted campaigning leads success. This important success was only possible due to your help, dear supporters. Thank you to everyone who has supported our campaign!

At this stage it is important to continue to put pressure on the manufacturers, the politics and authorities in order to end the cruel botox animal tests for good. 

The aim of the campaign »Stop Botox animal testing« is

• to inform the public about these horrific animal experiments
• to make the manufacturers to use animal-free methods instead of the mouse test
• to remove the mouse test from the EU regulations.

You can help!

• Don't use Botox products
• Spread the word
• Write to the manufacturers asking them to speed up the development and validation of animal-free methods
• Collect signatures

Further information Background information >> Download petition as PDF   Download sample letters as Word document  Further information in German: www.botox-tierversuche.de

Video film The Ugly Truth About Botox by the BUAV: