Jessica Alba’s ‘Honest Company’ found to be peddling the same toxic laundry detergent chemical used in TIDE… turns out they failed to test their own products!
by Mike Adams
NaturalNews.com
Friday, March 11, 2016
As a food research scientist and author of an upcoming book called Food Forensics, I’m totally floored to discover that Jessica Alba’s “Honest Company” failed to conduct scientific testing of the composition of their own manufacturing ingredients.
Just WOW.
Alba sits atop a corporation valued at $1.7 billion based mostly on her good looks, easy public relations victories with the mainstream media and the (empty) promise that her products completely avoided using toxic chemicals like SLS (sodium lauryl sulfate), a chemical frequently found in conventional detergents. But according to an expose published by the Wall Street Journal, Alba’s own products were loaded with SLS.
Click here for the SLS description at the Environmental Working Group website, which lists SLS as a “low” concern versus overall health. By the way, in my view as an active laboratory scientist, SLS is nowhere near the top of my list of concerning chemicals. SLS is probably 1/10000th the toxicity of BPA, in my opinion, and I personally wouldn’t care about a little SLS in The Honest Company’s products. But the point is that Alba promised the whole world her products were free of this chemicals… and they clearly aren’t. So it’s an integrity problem, a marketing problem and a shattering of the public trust. But it’s not necessarily really an urgent health problem, in my view.
How much SLS was found in Alba’s products, exactly? According to this article on Fortune.com:
Two independent lab tests commissioned by the Wall Street Journal found that the brand’s laundry detergent contained sodium lauryl sulfate, or SLS as it’s commonly called. In fact, one of the labs found that the concentration of SLS was nearly equal to that found in Tide, the popular detergent made by Proctor & Gamble.
Zero scientific testing of product composition?
The Rest…HERE
