How an Actress Made $1B Tapping Into a Chemophobe Nation’s Fears

Chem.Info ^ | 6/22/2015 | Meagan Parrish

[Rio]

...just because an ingredient has a long word you can’t pronounce, that doesn’t mean it’s going to kill you. And just because Alba’s company has been successful selling pricey products sans chemicals, it doesn’t mean she needs to freak out moms to make a buck.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Who you gonna believe....a bunch of PhD’s in Chemical Engineering, or Jessica Alba?

[driftdiver]

Whats wrong with it if they want to eliminate the chemicals?

Its the free market in action, people wanted it and she delivered. Sounds like you are anti-free market

[pgyanke]

Who you gonna believe....a bunch of PhD’s in Chemical Engineering, or Jessica Alba?

Rephrase: Who you gonna believe....a bunch of PhD’s in Chemical Engineering, or a mom?

I'll take mom.

[KC_Lion]

[free_life]

To chemical or not to chemical? I choose the latter.

[NorthMountain]

Last week she was on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., meeting with Senators such as Charles Schumer (D-NY) and Barbara Boxer (D-CA) to discuss the two competing reform bills to the 1976 Toxic Substances Control Act, and suggesting that neither option goes far enough in regulating dangerous chemicals.

Detestable conduct by an ugly person. Making a pile of money selling a niche product is a fine way to work in a free market economy. Using the naked force of government to stifle your competition at gunpoint is an act of petty (or not so petty) tyranny.

[mlo]

People can want things that are irrational. It’s not anti-free market to point out they are irrational.

[NorthMountain]

You're thinking with the wrong head. She may come in a charming wrapper, but this petty tyrant and friend of Chuck the Schmuck and Dianne Fineswine is ugly to the core.

Last week she was on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., meeting with Senators such as Charles Schumer (D-NY) and Barbara Boxer (D-CA) to discuss the two competing reform bills to the 1976 Toxic Substances Control Act, and suggesting that neither option goes far enough in regulating dangerous chemicals.

[CrazyIvan]

I picked up a container in a health food shop once that proudly boasted on its label “Contains No Chemicals”. I presume it held a vacuum.

[Anitius Severinus Boethius]

There is a huge difference between Jessica Alba and the Food Babe. One provides products that are in demand (just like Purell does with it’s anti-bacterial hand gels) and the other says stupid things like “if you can’t pronounce it you shouldn’t eat it.”

And what really gets me is that Jessica Alba made her name with “Dark Angel”. Seriously, know your target’s background before you write a hit piece.

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

The soccer moms. Bringing you Obama and Hitlery next for our lovely White house.

[Wallace T.]

Look at the bright side. It's better that has been actresses and entertainers like Jessica Alba, Suzanne Somers, Alicia Silverstone, etc., become entrepreneurs selling overpriced groceries or less than accurate books and videos than degenerate into obnoxious leftist harridans like Barbra Streisand or Susan Sarandon. At least the organic foods and supplements do no harm. The books may be another story.

[angcat]

Isn’t it all made in China?

[BitWielder1]

Good for her.
It's perfectly legal to sell pricey junk - as long as the government does not mandate it, it's fine with me.

[goodwithagun]

I choose to use products like the ones that Alba promotes. That said, I don’t need a law or any government interference to enforce it.

[NorthMountain]

I bet her products are heavily contaminated with DHMO ...

[all the best]

“a bunch of PhD’s in Chemical Engineering”

Yep, they ain’t ever going to tell you the stuff they create, and are paid to create, aren’t good for you.

[Sgt_Schultze]

[driftdiver]

How is it irrational to want to eliminate unnecessary chemicals out of your life. Who the F are you to determine that for other people?