Animal Testing Policy
Method performs absolutely no animal testing on any of our products, and does not
endorse, request nor commission any animal testing on our behalf.
Method works with our suppliers to ensure that no animal testing ever be done in
the development of ingredients for our products. Some suppliers of the more commonly
used ingredients in cleaning and personal care products have been in production
for over 50 years, and have performed animal testing in this time. Method does not
solicit, endorse, nor encourage animal testing from its suppliers; however we bare
no effect on testing done prior to our existence. Given that the vast majority of
regulatory agencies in the world have historically preferred animal testing to gauge
the safety of materials, the number of possible ingredients that have been animal
tested at some point in their history is huge.
Rather than focusing on earlier testing, method has a forward-looking approach to
making animal testing obsolete. We obtain statements from our suppliers that no
testing is done on our behalf, and have lobbied to gain acceptance for our non-animal
product testing protocols from various regulatory agencies, retailers and consumer.
For our product safety testing we use in-vitro (non-animal), simulated skin and
eye irritation tests, and have been successful in convincing various federal and
state agencies to accept these test methods in the place of animal test results.
These efforts were part of the reason that PETA named our two co-founders people of the year for 2006 and gave method a ‘proggy’ award
for 2006.
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PETA
method has had a long-standing relationship with PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment
of Animals) as a trusted partner and friend of the brand. method has signed PETA’s
Statement of Assurance, which states that we "do not conduct, contract out, or fund
studies on animals in the development, manufacturing, testing, or marketing of our
products, nor do we intend to do so." method is a licensee of PETA’s cruelty-free
logo and can be found listed on PETA's website as well as in their current Shopping
Guide for Caring Consumers.
We at method love the visibility PETA has brought to animal’s rights, and are happy
that they like our company practices so much.
method’s Co-Founders, Adam Lowry and Eric Ryan, were named PETA’s People of the Year in 2006 and given a ‘Proggy’ Award by
the organization for our commitment to cruelty-free products.
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