SAN FRANCISCO (Legal Newsline) – Class action lawyers say the “plant-based” claims of S.C. Johnson & Son on its cleaning products are wrong.
A lawsuit filed Jan. 15 targets many of the company’s ecover products, like laundry detergent, dishwasher tablets and toilet cleaner. Though the line urges customers to “get nature on your side,” ecover products actually have synthetic ingredients, the complaint says.
“(T)o create certain ingredients used in the Products, plant-sourced ingredients, like coconut or palm oil, are used,” the lawsuit says.
“But these ingredients are then subjected to substantial chemical modification and processing such that the resulting ingredient used in the Products is an entirely new, synthetically created ingredient—one that is vastly and fundamentally different than the original plant-sourced ingredient.”
Lawyers from the Clarkson Law Firm in Los Angeles and Moon Law in Palo Alto are pursuing the case.