Jessica Alba On Honest Company Lawsuits: ‘There’s No Merit Behind Any Of It’

Jessica Alba is out promoting her latest film Mechanic: Resurrection, but the timing couldn’t be worse for the actress turned entrepreneur. While Alba may be excited to discuss her new movie, everyone else is concentrating on Jessica’s other project, The Honest Company, and the lawsuits currently being levied against the company over its claims that their products are safe and fully organic. Fielding questions about The Honest Company, Ms. Alba isn’t caught off guard at all and seems to have expected inquiries about her company’s products.

Mechanic: Resurrection Star Jessica Alba Addresses Honest Concerns

During a recent interview with Cosmopolitan, the questions turned toward the topic of the bundle of lawsuits Alba’s The Honest Company is facing with the complaints focusing on false labeling, misleading ingredients, and ineffective products. In answering to the issue, Jessica says The Honest Company wants customers to have only positive experiences with their products, but she adds that there are some organizations just looking for a high profile way to bring attention to their issues. In situations like that, Alba says her company and its products become easy targets.

One such incident concerns the lawsuit filed by Organic Consumers Association, who allege that The Honest Company’s Organic Infant Formula “in fact is not organic” as the label indicates.

Without indicating any specific case, Alba says she’s confident that The Honest Company will be victorious in every suit. She also says that minimal research will prove that the claims made in the lawsuits are frivolous and false.

“It’s just a headline, really. When you look into any of it, they’re baseless. There’s no merit behind any of it,” said Ms. Alba.

“You’re saying your products are safe?” Guthrie asked for Cosmo.

“They’re amazing,” Jessica said. “What’s incredible is if anything, it gives our customers an opportunity to speak out and get behind us and we’ve grown tremendously over the last 4 1/2 years and we’ve really hit a note with the Millennials… We’ve had a really positive effect on people’s lives and it’s a dream come true because that’s all I really wanted. ”

Jessica Alba Regrets Getting Inked

While Ms. Alba may not regret getting involved with The Honest Company, she recently told Fox News that she does regret getting tattooed when she was younger. In talking about getting tattoos when she was only 18 years old, Jessica says people change as they get older, and maybe some of those tattoos lose their meaning or become embarrassing over time.

Jessica has a few tattoos, flowers on her neck and Sanskrit on her wrist among them, and while none of them are really embarrassing, she says she’s not really as big of a fan of the ink as she was in her past.

Another habit Alba has kicked is her tanning bed usage, something that was a big fascination for her in those younger years.

“I did a little bit as a teenager and a young adult,” Alba says. “I remember, it was a trend, and we all used to do it. You put the sticker on to see how dark you got. I would go to my cousins’ dances, like the Sadie Hawkins dance, and we would get a fake tan before. I would never do a tanning bed ever [now].”

Jessica originally became involved with The Honest Company, when she began to learn that many additives found in food and in health and beauty products are hazardous for people and especially for children. Becoming more educated in her research of organic products may have lead Alba to understand the dangers presented by overusing tanning booths and getting too many tattoos.

Mechanic: Resurrection is currently playing in theaters.

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