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SCIENCE AND SAFETY
The Estée Lauder Companies has eight Research and Development facilities around the world. We take great care to meet our own exceedingly high standards and to comply with applicable regulations for land, air and water in every country in which our products are sold. We expect our suppliers of raw materials to meet the same stringent standards that we set for ourselves. We are continually updating our Raw Materials Coding Package to help suppliers provide the finest ingredients that meet our strict environmental and safety standards.

Our products touch, treat and enhance the skin and hair of our consumers. That is why we take great care in ensuring that they are safe to use as well as effective. We carry out an extensive review process for ingredients we use, formulas we create and products we sell.

We are in compliance with chemical management plans wherever our products are sold. The European chemicals program called REACH (Regulation Evaluation, Authorization and Restriction of Chemicals) represents an outstanding effort to streamline and improve the former legislative framework on chemicals of the European Union (EU). REACH places greater responsibility on industry to manage the risks that chemicals may pose to health and the environment.

GREEN CHEMISTRY
Our Research and Development team has embarked on a comprehensive program in Green Chemistry supported by one of the world's leading authorities on the subject. Our program includes 40 scientists and engineers from every aspect of product development, who are focused on developing sustainable product design and full lifecycle analysis of our products. The Green Chemistry program brings together the finest details concerning product composition to our corporate sustainability efforts to complete full Cradle to Cradle assessments.

ANIMAL TESTING
We were one of the first beauty companies to mandate the complete replacement of animal tests on finished products nearly 20 years ago. For two decades it has been our policy not to test on animals or to ask others to test on our behalf except where required by law. We evaluate every one of our finished products in clinical tests on volunteer panels. It is the corporate goal of The Estée Lauder Companies to seek the complete elimination of animal testing on cosmetic products and ingredients worldwide.