Cosmetic Companies Hiding Toxic Chemicals?

We’ll look into this and see if we can find out the details.

Wow. Is this documented somewhere SuziL? It sounds like an urban legend to me and I’d like to learn more about it.  

Yes. I ordered from the Mario Badescu website and received an email notice of the class-action suit.

I was on a business trip to Southern California and had forgotten to bring the cream, which I was using for breakouts (what would be described as perioral dematitis). While I was there, I started to break out and it was getting really bad looking. So on the way home, I searched out an Ulta — because this cream was the only thing that had consistently worked — and was told it “had been taken off the shelves because it needed to be repackaged”.

Eventually, my backlash rash subsided. Then I was diagnosed with an allergy and the perioral dermatitis went away. Now my skin is the best it’s been in my adult life. Still sensitive, but good.

I’m more than annoyed. This cream cost me years of good skin because every time I backed off on using it, I broke out more, causing redness and scarring. I used it for more than five years, not realizing it contained a steriod.

Here’s the beginning of the lengthy email regarding the cream:

Here’s a link confirming the lawsuit but all it says is that they’re being sued for “failing to disclose all of the ingredients.”  I’m still looking for confirmation that they added steroids to the product.