Animal testing and China

If you're someone who is making an effort to go cruelty free with your products, you will be well aware that if a product is sold in China, it is subject to animal testing by law. From what I can make out through my own research, although not every product will be tested , particularly if the ingredient has been on sale in China for some time, companies must animal test their products if the law requires it.

This unfortunately provides a few milestones to get over in terms of finding out which products are cruelty free.

I recently discovered that Peta's no test list isn't always accurate and it is best to do your own research.

Nubar is a nail company that promotes itself to be vegan and cruelty free, but yet they have a distributor in China. Korres is owned by themselves in Europe but licensed through Johnson and Johnson in the U.S, Sleek makeup and MUA make up say they're cruelty free but their websites ship worldwide, does this mean they are subject to the animal testing laws enforced in the countries they ship too?

It's incredibly frustrating as a consumer, having to go on Internet heresay and forums, who is correct? And where do you draw the line?

So I've decided to make my own list of points that I will want companies to comply to before I buy:

• Must say cruelty free/BUAV approved/ on Petas list

• Must not be owned by a testing parent company (L'oreal and body shop for example)

• If they are on one of those lists above, research where their products are available and if they are sold in China or other countries where testing is required

• Try to move away from mass produced products and seek out alternatives from Etsy etc

It's annoying but I won't give up. I will post reviews and research as I find it xx