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. But the price for the short term "beauty" is paid by the suffering and death of thousands of mice.  more

Although there are already several thousand beauty and bodycare products, the cosmetics industry never tires of researching on new chemical ingredients. All of these ingredients are tested on animals. In the European Union alone, at least 38,000 rabbits, hamsters, rats, mice and other animals suffer and die for this purpose every year. more