THE FICKLE COSMETIC INDUSTRY AND PERFUMS... AN D ANIMAL CRUELTY

 KILLING ANIMALS JUST FOR THE PLEASURE OF A GOOD SCENT? 

IS IT REALLY WORTH IT ? 

WHAT WOULD VEGANS SAY ABOUT THIS ? 

Musk

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While natural musk is one of the most expensive animal products in the world, the vast majority of musk produced and sold in the world these days is synthetic. Why? Because to get real, authentic, natural musk, you must first kill a male musk deer, which is an endangered animal.

Natural musk was used extensively until the late 19th century when ethics started to become a factor and people stopped the slaughter of these deer, which live in Nepal and the region surrounding it. Poachers still kill these deer, harvest their musk pods, which are glands located in the abdomen near the deer's penis, and then create a grain from the dried-out musk pod.

So can vegans wear musk? Yes. Just not poached musk.

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Ambergris

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Craven told Bloomberg News that Ambergris is one of the three most expensive perfume ingredients today. And no wonder, because it comes from the intestines of sperm whales. No kidding. And there's whale fecal matter involved in this musky scent.

Even though  it might not be worth spending so much money on a scent, there are quite a number of people in the world that do this . 

Couldn t we just manage just with something that would not involve killing animals to do it ?