Perfectly Posh warned by FDA for product claim violations
Perfectly Posh operate in the personal care MLM niche and are based out of Utah in the US.
As per the company’s website, Perfectly Posh market a range of products it claims ‘are made in the USA with the purest, natural ingredients on earth‘.
Back in March the FDA visited the Perfectly Posh website for review.
On June 2nd Perfectly Posh CEO and co-founder Ann Dalton received a warning letter identifying several violations.
The FDA claim Perfectly Posh were marketing their products as drugs,
because they are intended for use in the cure, mitigation, treatment, or prevention of disease and/or are articles intended to affect the structure or any function of the human body.
Examples cited by the FDA include
Share Skin Joy Coconut Oil:
“Coconut oil … is known to help treat eczema, psoriasis, and can even help treat and prevent acne.”“Rosemary Leaf Extract … is helpful in treating skin issues such as acne, eczema, and chronic dry skin.”
“Sunflower seed oil … is effective in combating acne, eczema, inflammation, redness, and irritation.”
Goodnight Kisses Overnight Lip Mask:
“Mango Seed Butter also aids in cellular regeneration and is excellent for soothing sunburns…”
Purifier Snarky Bar:
“Eucalyptus oil functions as an anti-inflammatory, antiseptic, and antibacterial ingredient. The oil is also a skin-conditioning agent used to treat skin infections and help alleviate skin irritation.”
“Peppermint oil is used to relieve skin irritation, itchiness, and redness where inflammation is present. The high menthol content of the oil is also known to allow blood vessels to relax and improve circulation.”
“Tea tree Oil, also known as Melaleuca Oil, has anti-microbial, anti-viral, and anti-fungal properties which help with the treatment of acne, dandruff, rashes, sunburns, and other skin conditions.”
Call it a Night Nighttime Facial Oil:
“Lavender Oil has anti-inflammatory and antimicrobial properties and can soothe minor burns and insect bites.”
“Green or White Tea Extract has strong antimicrobial … [and] anti-inflammatory … properties.”
“Safflower Seed Oil … is known for its ability to treat psoriasis, eczema, and acne.”
Lemon Wedgie Caffeinated Lip Balm:
“Caffeine… acts as an anti-inflammatory… and can help protect the skin against sun damage.”
“Shea Butter… is effective in improving or treating skin inflammation and irritation such as burns and acne, dark spots, eczema, and psoriasis.”
The FDA state Perfectly Posh’s products ‘are not generally recognized as safe and effective for the above referenced uses‘.
The above claims therefore place the company in violation of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act.
The FDA have given Perfectly Posh fifteen days to advise them how the company has addressed the current violations. Perfectly Posh are also required to implement measures to ensure violations don’t happen again.
FDA is cracking down on outrageous claims in all segments of cosmetics, but they always have.
What we need is see FTC start cracking down on bogus Youtube claims which violates FTC guidelines on what can be said online in promotion of products. They issued those guidelines but then nothing happened.
The FDA needs to get a real clue. That bogus organization is so full of themselves.
They are just mad because people use natural products to help themselves instead of the drugs they push for profit. They can’t capitalize on natural effective treatments, but they can regulate.
For example.. claiming on your site that Vitamin C cures scurvy is against their terms because they would say it is going against regulations, however that is exactly what it does.
Perfectly Posh has really not done anything wrong, all of what I read above is factual, they just aren’t profiting from it.
So why hasn’t Perfectly Posh gotten their products approved by the FDA then?
I mean hey, if the claims are treatment claims are factual then there should be no problems, right?
When the FDA starts snooping around it’s not a good sign. So it’s either comply by changing the wording in the product claims or get fined and eventually shut down.
Better to change the wording in product claims and let the products speak for themselves. Which they should if they are indeed effective.
Uphill battles against the FDA are both time and money consuming.
Because the FDA refuses to evaluate, test and monitor natural remedies, they prohibit manufacturers from advertising “drug claims” that support the use of these items for therapeutic purposes.
It’s more beneficial and profitable for “Big Pharma” to have more unhealthy people because that would mean more drug sales.
With the FDA and Big Pharma seemingly in cahoots, unsafe drugs are getting approved and natural medicine is being persecuted because it poses a threat to big drug companies.
If natural medicine is suppressed, it means that you no longer have the choice to pick safer alternatives to improve your health and will have to rely on all the wonderful drugs that Big Pharma is cooking up!
That is the reason. No ‘medicine’ no patent, not profitable for to line their pockets with.
Many believe the FDA is a huge lab with testing facilities etc. It isn’t.
Vitamin C cures scurvy, but if a natural site claimed that the FDA would be offended as well,… but history proves that fact.
Hogwash. If Perfectly Posh want to have their products approved for medical claims, all they have to do is submit them for scientific evaluation.
If your claims are based on anecdotal evidence, that’s your problem and rightfully the FDA will not approve your product for medical use.
No. NOT hogwash. Perfectly Posh is not a drug. The Federal DRUG Administration is (Ozedit: snip, see below)
It’s not the Federal Drug Administration, it’s the Food and Drug Administration.
Perfectly Posh’s products contain “food”. If they want to make medical claims then they need to get approval from the FDA.
This has nothing to do with your non-drug therapy conspiracy theories.
Whatever The FDA approves multitudes of drugs that are proven could kill someone even when taken as directed.
It is still fact that the FDA refuses to evaluate, test and monitor natural remedies, they prohibit manufacturers from advertising “drug claims” that support the use of these items for therapeutic purposes.
I didn’t see anything on their site they called a food. And no I am not associated with Perfectly Posh in any way.
Just like they won’t approve marijuana on a federal level, they make too much money from their ‘drug cures’ which are not cures at all. If they were people would not have to be on them for a lifetime. They are bandaids to the underlying problem, which nutrition would help most of them, but they don’t make money off healthy people. I’m done.. Your brainwashing is complete, please continue to the next phase.
So you just ignored all the medical claims made on the POSH on advertisement of their products?
I am glad the FDA took notice of this.
If not for profit what is your axe you have to grind here?
Move along, nothing to see here. Just another “rage against the gubmint” whackjob…
I couldn’t care less about anything outside of Perfectly Posh making unverified medical claims about their products.
It’s not on and if you break the rules then great to see the FDA taking action.
Yep, typical gubmint rager comment. FDA’s power against supplements had been greatly reduced since the 70’s. People can put anything in supplements and say all sorts of things, as long as they say it CAREFULLY.
Perfectly Posh failed the “carefully” test, whereas thousands of other companies had no problems every day.
Typical “big pharma” conspiracy crackpot.