ST. LOUIS (Legal Newsline) – Speed Stick users better watch out for pit stains, a class action lawsuit filed in December claims.
The Harvath Law Group filed the case in St. Louis County Circuit Court against Colgate-Palmolive Company, which recently removed it to St. Louis federal court under the Class Action Fairness Act.
Despite claims the “Stain Guard” line of deodorants claims to fight yellow stains, it actually creates them because it contains aluminum, the lawsuit says.
“(B)ecause it is scientifically well-established (although not well-known to the consuming public) that aluminum in some antiperspirants causes white marks and staining, there are other brands of ‘antiperspirants’ on the market that do not contain aluminum and therefore can legitimately claim to ‘fight white marks’ and/or to ‘fight’ ‘yellow stains,’” the suit says.
“The fact that legitimate stain and white-mark preventing antiperspirants exist on the market renders Colgate’s deception all the more convincing to consumers; a consumer does not simply take for granted that all antiperspirants cause white marks and yellow stains.”