American Apparel Nail Polish Recalled
January 29 | Posted by Lira | beauty products Tags: american apparel, apparel, business model, choices, clothing, hazardous materials, nail polishes, nitrolicious, style
Clothing brand, American Apparel, has recently launched a collection of nail polishes with really pretty colors, all inspired by the the brand’s themes and style choices. In fact, one of its shade, Factory Grey, is the actual color of the floor of the company’s manufacturing plant, while another, the minty green color, is inspired by the company’s color for its seventh floor, where the accounting department is housed. The polishes are priced at $6 per bottle and all 18 shades of it, where said to be toluene and formaldehyde-free.
However, weeks after its launch came this report that the nail polishes may in fact contain hazardous materials, and could threaten one’s health. Sources say that the company has quietly removed the collection off it’s stores, claiming there was something wrong with the bottle packaging so the nail polishes have to be restored.
American Apparel immediately issued a statement to address all the buzz going on around other blogs about its product containing lethal material.
The statement once again reiterates there’s a problem with the bottles and assures the public that the polishes are safe. Those that have originally bought the nail polishes before the recall, can trade their old bottle for a new one.
The official statement from American Apparel, as posted on the blog, Nitrolicious, follows after the cut…
The voluntary recall is just related to the bottles – we weren’t totally happy with how they were handling in shipments and in the stores and pulled them all. The polish is and has always been totally safe. We just don’t want 280 stores getting rid of their bottles however they see fit. We want to make sure it gets down properly and appropriately.
Here was our response this morning, I don’t mean to be too forward, but I feel that your readers deserve a correction. And yes, you can trade your bottle (opened or unopened) in for two new bottles as soon as they’re back in stores.
After receiving a few reports of bottles breaking, we made the internal decision to do a voluntary recall of the bottles on both a retail and public level.
We chose this small US manufacturer to produce our nail polish because we support their business model and have a fondness for family who runs it. However, one of the realities of all manufacturing is first-run glitches. We worked all last week with the manufacturer to make the improvements necessary for the second run. Another reason we sought out a US-based company is so we would be able make changes and now, we can investigate what went wrong as quickly as possible. We still believe in the factory we’re working with and the new polish will be in stores within the next two weeks.
On another note, one thing we’re taking very seriously is the disposal of the bottles we had in the stores. Even though our polish was DBP, toluene, and formaldehyde-free, we don’t want our stores just tossing it in the trash. We’re using our internal shipping and distribution line to arrange a pickup and removal of the polish to make sure it gets done right.
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