This past week Jessica Alba’s Honest Company has been in the news, after the Wall Street Journal tested their laundry detergent and found sodium lauryl sulfate (SLS).
This wouldn’t be so bad (Seventh Generation laundry detergent contains SLS), except for the fact that Alba specifically said that SLS was toxic and her products did not contain the ingredient.
Honest Company says there is no SLS in their product, yet the Wall Street Journal says there is.
People have been quick to assume that the company is being dishonest on one test from one source.
Sounds to me like there needs to be some random sampling done of bottles of detergent off store shelves, by an independent third party testing organization.
I just want to add that I’ve not ever recommended the Honest Company because there are less toxic products than theirs available. I took a new look at their ingredients this morning and their personal care products, for example,, contain many industrialized ingredients. Compare this to other companies that are offering products made from “whole” organic ingredients. And one step further, this morning I just added a new page for companies making body care products where the business is certified as an organic processor of organic ingredients.
A bottle of the liquid detergent for washing machines leaked onto my washing machine. When it was noticed, and I went to clean it up the paid came up as if it had been treated with that old fashioned acid paint remover that makes paint bubble off the surface. Hmmmmm>.
Thanks, Debra, for saving us so much ingredient-researching time, by offering your new Recommendations page.
I can forgive some ingredient-labeling mistakes, when they’re later fixed. But I don’t need the many industrialized ingredients you found in Honest products. Sounds like those ingredients are there to stay.
So many of my customers’ homes are filled with similar types of products. I’m happy to hear you’ll be working more directly with manufacturers and retailers to clean up their claims! 🙂