HACKED !

Dear IMU community, 

We have important information to communicate you. In fact, our blog was hacked last week. 

We did not have any control of the situation and there were a lot of actions realized out of our will like mails sent to our customers and partners. 

You have to know that all things are totally false. IMU will not be acquired by any other company and is not either in a bad financial situation.

Success generates jealousy. It is famous. The truth is that IMU is in full development, create recently, it inspires energy, authenticity, transparency and interactivity. All this represents a lot of forgotten values in the cosmetics market. And we know that. They know that too. And you know that. 

We say what we think and we will continue to say what we think. We sell products with high quality, simply. All people have to respect positions and opinions of the others. And we know that you like our position when we see our fast success. We have to say thank you for that, thank you to support authenticity, respect, and quality. 

Thank you to understand this bad history. 

What doesn't kill you makes you stronger. 

IMU.

Against the animal testing thanks to science !

A recent article published in the website popsi.com emphasizes on the possibility to avoid the practice of animal testing for certain compounds of cosmetic products.

The article specifies that animals are still regularly used as test subjects, mainly in studies of the toxicity and allergy sensitivity of cosmetics in particular. We know that it was banned in the European Union in 2009. But this prohibition creates another: the impossibility to the manufacturers to really test the products for allergy sensitivity.

We can analyze that banning animal testing could be problematic for people who suffer for example from allergic contact dermatitis or eczema because the problem is that these tests require animal testing. 

IMU is not agree with the animal testing, of course, but is not agree with the idea to put in danger people. That is why we decided to publish this article on our website. Read. 

The article informs us that the Lund University in Sweden may have found a workaround thanks to a study about genes of human cells, and IMU follows it! 

If you want more information, they research is published in the journal BMC Genomics, published by BioMed Central. Moreover, the link of the entire article is : 

http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2011-08/lab-grown-human-cells-could-replace-animal-testing

The goal of the research is to compare the biomarker (composed by 200 genes) to the chemical’s behavior. Thanks to it, they were able to the potency required to induce sensitivity. 

The authors of the researcher think that it could be, in a first time, reduce drastically the animal testing. It appears also that it could be more efficient because this method allows an analysis of human genes directly, and no an analysis of animal analogues.  

IMU publishes it to show you that we have to be concerned, and we have to be in advance. We have to do it for the animal protection, and for the human protection. 

IMU.