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Go non-toxic and cruelty-free

Many commercial cosmetics are tested on animals and contain toxins, albeit in tiny doses. But we give ourselves, and the environment when we wash cosmetics off, millions of doses over a lifetime.

It's World Week for Animals in Laboratories, so give them, yourself and the environment a break: access these excellent websites for non-toxic, cruelty-free alternatives:

  • Skin Deep - The Environmental Working Group's database of cosmetics and personal care products, ranked according to how likely they are to be hazardous.
  • Beauty Without Cruelty Approved Product List - cruelty-free products available in South Africa.
  • Leaping Bunny Approved Product List - cruely-free products available in South Africa.

- Olivia Rose-Innes, EnviroHealth Editor, Health24, April 2012

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