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- Feb 25, 2014
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Hello ladies! Being a slightly newer member, I was pleasantly surprised to find this group. I've been buying cruelty free nail polish for over 6 years, all cosmetics for 4+. Which is substantial considering my age lol. However, as someone how rarely shops on line, and sticks to mostly lower-end cosmetics (drugstore, sephora, but no Chanel or anything like that), I have been annoyed by seemingly EVERYTHING starting to be sold in china. It's almost impossible to keep up, and as someone who loves trying new products, it's like a mental tug of war as to whether or not to buy a product that I'm not completely sure doesn't sell in china. Anyways, I was airing my grievances with another CF friend, and she told me that she DID buy products from brands that were sold in china. Her reasoning was that the brands didn't test unless it was necessary (so obviously doesn't apply to brands that test everywhere), so there were only doing it for the profits, which is every companies #1 priority, after all. She also mentioned that these were also being sold in the EU, so only the Chinese products were tested. She brought up some pretty good points about it not being the companies, it being china, and that the companies took the effort to remain cruelty free in other region, and that we could help show said companies that profits are good enough in other countries to cease selling in china. Also about how hard it would be to find cosmetics otherwise (especially because she is on a low budget and has some severe perfume / other common cosmetic ingredient allergies). She is admittedly less stringent than some (with things like using gifts or used cosmetics), but I was I just wondering what others thought of this? I think I am decidedly undecided.