Toxicology and cosmetics

Toxicological tests on animals

Draize test: Chemicals or cosmetics are dripped into the eyes of rabbits
Photo: PeTA


Skin irritation test: A mouse is held in the scruff
Photo: Doctors Against Animal Experiments 


Skin irritation test: The abdominal skin is shaved
Photo: Doctors Against Animal Experiments 


Skin irritation test: Mouse with shaved abdominal skinMaus mit rasiertem Bauch.
Photo: Doctors Against Animal Experiments 


Skin irritation test: The test substance is dripped onto the shaved skin. The mouse can suffer from  painful inflammations and corrosions of the skin, depending on the type and dosage of the substance. 
Photo: Doctors Against Animal Experiments 


Guinea-pigs in a painful skin sensitization test
Photo: PeTA


Feeding a test substance to a rat using a stomach tube
Photo: PeTA


A mouse killed in an LD50 test. In the LD50 test a test substance id administered to groups of animals in different dosages. The dosage which kills 50 % of the animals is called LD50. .
Photo: BUAV


A rat with »piloerect« fur suffering from the toxic effects of a test chemical
Photo: PeTA



A dog poisoned in a repeated-dose toxicity study
Photo: PeTA