Jessica Alba has developed a personal care and cleaning product empire based on the premise that her products are “safer” that other brands on the market. But once again, testing reveals that one of her popular products contains ingredients she likes to claim could be harmful to consumers. This week, The Wall Street Journal reports that two independent lab tests of the Honest Company’s liquid laundry detergent contain a chemical called sodium lauryl sulfate, SLS. Alba’s company markets its products as “Honestly free of” SLS and in Alba’s book, “The Honest Life,” she claims SLS is a “toxin.” Both labs found “significant levels” of SLS in Honest’s detergent, roughly the same amount as found in Tide. (Honest disputes the independent labs’ results.) Read more.
