HOw DO wE ENSURE THAT OUR
PRODUCTS AND THEIR INgREDIENTS
AREN’T TESTED ON ANImALS?
84% of our globally surveyed OUR mISSION STATEmENT SAYS
Love Your Body™ card members THAT wE wILL “TIRELESSLY wORk
TO NARROw THE gAP BETwEEN
believe that it is “very important” PRINCIPLE AND PRACTICE, wHILST
that we ensure that our products mAkINg fUN, PASSION AND CARE
aren’t tested on animals PART Of OUR DAILY LIvES.”
at the body shop we have always believed passionately that no animals should be used in the testing of toiletries and
cosmetics, and that using them for testing should be banned.
since the beginning the body shop has campaigned passionately to end animal testing for cosmetics purposes. in the eu,
we pride ourselves in being part of the movement that saw the Cosmetics directive amended to ban animal testing of finished
cosmetic products from 2004. the ban on the testing of ingredients came into force in march 2009.
We are among the few companies who continue to comply with the stringent requirements of the internationally recognised
‘humane Cosmetics standard’ (hCs) of the british union for the abolition of Vivisection (buaV). the body shop has not tested
finished cosmetic products on animals since its inception and we do not ask others to test on our behalf.
suppliers must certify that they have not carried out animal tests on ingredients to support their use for a cosmetics purpose,
using the cut-off date of 31st december 1990. if, for an ingredient we wish to use in formulations, a supplier refuses
for whatever reason, to sign the declaration, then the raw material is declared as non-compliant and an alternative is identified,
or the product development is stopped. We conduct an annual declaration audit to ensure compliance with the hCs, and our
entire process is audited every three years by an independent consultant for the buaV.
IN 2007, wE REjECTED 8 TRADE NAmE INgREDIENTS fOR AgAINST ANImAL
TESTINg NON-COmPLIANCE, AND IN 2008 wE REjECTED 6, ENSURINg OUR
POLICY wAS NOT COmPROmISED.
UPDATE ON PROgRESS
wHAT wE SAID wE wOULD DO wHAT wE DID
Continue to be certified against the a detailed review to ensure compliance with the hCs was carried out in 2008
humane Cosmetic standard by an independent auditor and the buaV. no non-conformances were found and
the body shop’s approach was described as ‘incredibly impressive.’
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