Dr. Bronner's Ups Ante in Lawsuit Against 'Organic' Personal Care Cheaters

[Fauxmage]

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Dr. Bronner's Ups Ante in Lawsuit Against 'Organic' Personal Care Cheaters

Dr. Bronner's Magic Soaps filed its Second Amended Complaint today in San Francisco Superior Court against falsely labeled "organic" personal care companies that use non-organic pesticide-intensive agricultural and/or petrochemical material to make the main cleansing and moisturizing ingredients in their products.


Defendants include, among others:

Hain-Celestial (Jason "Pure, Natural & Organic; Avalon "Organics")
Levlad (Nature's Gate "Organics")
Kiss My Face "Organic"
YSL Beaute Inc (Stella McCartney's "100% Organic Active Ingredients")
Country Life (Desert Essence "Organics")
Giovanni "Organic Cosmetics"

and the certifiers Ecocert and OASIS.




Learn more... (http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_18438.cfm)

[Gliondrach]

Scum that many companies are.

[Soynut]

Here's a helpful site where you can find out what's in your products, how they rate on that "toxic scale." www.cosmeticsdatabase.com

[Gliondrach]

That's an interesting site. Lots of info.