Thread: Johnson & Johnson and Wal-Mart Sued for Selling Toxic Baby Shampoo

Johnson & Johnson and Wal-Mart Sued for Selling Toxic Baby Shampoo

Johnson & Johnson and Wal-Mart Sued for Selling Toxic Baby Shampoo


By Sarah Pierce


If you purchased Johnson & Johnson’s Baby Shampoo or Wal-Mart brand Equate Tearless Baby Wash, you may want to stop using it. A class action lawsuit has been approved this month that claims these products may contain a toxin linked to cancer.

The class action lawsuit, filed earlier this year, accuses Johnson & Johnson and Wal-Mart Stores of selling shampoo and baby wash that allegedly contains methylene chloride, an ingredient banned by the FDA in cosmetics because it’s linked to cancer. The law firm that filed the lawsuit is also investigating Target’s Night-time Bath and Body Wash, which is not currently named in the suit.

A third Johnson & Johnson plant is now also under investigation for alleged quality concerns. The new Johnson & Johnson plant is one that manufactures Pepcid and Mylanta among other products. You can read the details on that investigation at Legafi.

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Just passing it along cause I know some people here have children.

Originally Posted by AnarchoPhil

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Thanks for shareing this we've used this on our Kids for years.

Per instructions from my eye doctor, I've been rubbing that stuff on my eyelids for the past 20 years. I'm just thrilled by one more commercial item turning up toxic.

Originally Posted by Utopian

Per instructions from my eye doctor, I've been rubbing that stuff on my eyelids for the past 20 years. I'm just thrilled by one more commercial item turning up toxic.

Be sure to rinse well! Be glad you werent doing your whole head.

You may also want to stop using gasoline in your car. It's been linked to many types of cancer and other fatal diseases.

Yea, so they will settle the class action lawsuit after they get as many members as possible and each person will in the end get a free bottle of shampoo and the 2 or 3 named plaintiffs will get a few thousand bucks a piece and the attorneys will get 20 or 30 million bucks.

Originally Posted by thebigspendur

Yea, so they will settle the class action lawsuit after they get as many members as possible and each person will in the end get a free bottle of shampoo and the 2 or 3 named plaintiffs will get a few thousand bucks a piece and the attorneys will get 20 or 30 million bucks.

But at least we'll sleep better at night right

I was ordering some methylcellulose today and remembered this post. I wonder if it is found in shampoo? Methylcellulose is use to increase the viscosity of liquids and it is derived from methyl chloride. I don't recall enough chemistry to bother trying to work it out, but I would assume that the methylene chloride is some slight residue from the production of the methylcellulose. Thus, it's not as if there was some insidious insensitive plot by these companies to put a carcinogen in the shampoo, instead it likely was just a trace residue.