Animal testing causes undue suffering for many types of creatures around the world. When it comes to testing for things like skin care products, it's difficult to justify such cruelty just so that people can improve their complexions.
Fortunately, researchers at Ohio State University have developed a type of synthetic skin that may be as good as animal skin for testing skin care products. Moreover, the material may also be useful in the future for individuals in need of skin grafts.
"In addition to ethical issues, animal skin is hard to obtain, expensive, and gives highly variable results because of individual skin variability," said Bharat Bhushan, lead study author.
In a clinical trial, the synthetic skin was shown to absorb and react the same way that rat skin did when the researchers tested a skin care product on it.
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) reports that an estimated 100 million animals in the U.S. are killed each year in laboratory testing.
Those who are concerned with issues of animal cruelty should be sure to seek skin care products that are not tested on our furry friends.
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