Luxury cleaning products from The Laundress are dangerous to life
My favorite brand of luxury powders and home cleaning products, The Laundress, has proven to be life-threatening. Back in December, I received a letter from the company that I needed to immediately stop using the brand's products. We were in Tulum, and had to entrust this mission to the eldest daughter, who failed it, which turned out just today after a sudden inspection of the laundry. It turns out that we continue to live in perfect harmony with the harmful bacteria Burkholderia cepacia (infects the lungs), Klebsiella aerogenes (pneumonia, lung abscess) and Pseudomonas, the famous Pseudomonas aeruginosa. And I’m trying to solve the puzzle of where the allergy comes from, which nothing causes.
But I'm not alone. Many fans of The Laundress brand began to publicly share their stories. One of the victims of the luxury cleaning was taken to the hospital with sepsis, another was diagnosed with lung disease, many with weakened immune systems after operations returned home to the comfort of their beds and a few days later called 911. And how many people were seriously ill with Covid for a long time because of fabric softener? It is no longer possible to calculate this. After the public exposure of the powder brand, many American allergists and dermatologists exhaled - they had already despaired of looking for the cause of untreatable rashes in patients. Victims have already filed class action lawsuits against The Laundress. Suppliers and manufacturers are accused of essentially bringing biological weapons into the homes of millions of people. The cause of the infection is still unknown. Perhaps bacteria was in one of the ingredients, or the production facility itself was contaminated.
The company hopes to start over with a clean slate, but in the meantime, aesthetic cleaning enthusiasts have to instruct housekeepers and look for replacements for the beautiful The Laundress jars, created by Lindsay Boyd and Gwen Whiting. The girls worked at Chanel and Ralph Lauren, lived in New York and lamented that they had nothing to wash their expensive cashmere with. So in 2004 these beautiful and cool products The Laundress appeared. The cute little brand was bought by the Unilever conglomerate (their portfolio includes Dove, Rexona, Persil, etc.) for $100 million.
The devotion of some fans of the brand gives me mixed feelings of bewilderment and admiration. They would die for beauty and aesthetics rather than wash their sheets with Tide, so they will continue to use contaminated powders. To be honest, I also suffer from the lack of an alternative to The Laundress. But I'm in no hurry to die.
Author: Yunia Pugacheva
