animal testing

The top ten cosmetics companies, risk factors on their products, and whether or not they test on animals

Mark is the head of Lush cosmetics, the chain of beauty shops that smell so strongly that they put many people off. He once explained that this intense smell is due to the fact that the company uses either little or no packaging and so the aroma is free to roam. With Anita Roddick, he set up the Body Shop and was the originator of its no-animal-testing rule. He doesn't drive, doesn't eat meat, and funds numerous road and aviation protest groups around the country.

Human skin, eyes, the lining of the throat -- snippets of these and other tissues are now routinely grown in test tubes from donated human cells. The goal is not to patch up ailing people but to use the human tissues in place of mice, dogs or other lab animals for testing new drugs, cosmetics and other products.