Does palmolive soap test on animals?
Colgate-Palmolive in the McSpotlight Colgate-Palmolive 300 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10022, USA Colgate-Palmolive has animal testing undertaken for it by outside contractors. A few years ago, BUAV recently uncovered details of an experiment carried out for the company by Columbia University in which guinea pigs were locked into small plastic tubes and a strong solution of surfactant was applied for four hours a day for three days, causing cracked and bleeding skin on the animals. Colgate also owns a company that produces meat based pet foods. In March 1992 thousands of protesters took to the streets of Mexico City to protest against the polluting practices and excessive water consumption of the company’s local factory. Demands for relocation of the plant to outside the city have been made by local officials amongst others and have so far been ignored. Talks with local citizens were called off in November 1991. Colgate has been criticised for anti-union practices against SINTRACOLPA, a
