Animal Testing

Animal testing has been happening for decades and has been regulated by (at least for psychology) the IACUC (Institutional Animal Care and Use Commity). Before you start an experiment with rats, you need to send them a proposal saying what you will be experimenting, what you are going to do with them, why you are doing that experiment, and even what temperature the room is going to be. They make you bend over backwards for the safety of those animals, yet, you can buy mouse traps that harm and kill the same type of rats in your house with no problem. Of course many people are not opposed to using rats to try to find a cure for cancer. Yet, what about for material uses, like make-up testing, soap testing, shampoo testing, etc? In order to put something on the market it needs to be proven effective, and testing on humans can be very costly, you have to compensate human participants -- the rats don't need money. So what are your feelings toward animal testing for material things?