{"id":861969,"date":"2026-06-12T10:13:18","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T10:13:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/861969\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T10:13:18","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T10:13:18","slug":"loreal-owned-cerave-skincare-product-faces-multiple-lawsuits-over-cancer-causing-chemical-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/861969\/","title":{"rendered":"L\u2019Oreal-owned CeraVe skincare product faces multiple lawsuits over cancer-causing chemical claims\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">L\u2019Or\u00e9al, the French cosmetics giant and parent company of the skincare product CeraVe, is reportedly facing six class-action lawsuits.<\/p>\n<p>The company, headquartered in Clichy, France, is facing multiple lawsuits over claims that some of its products contain benzene, a chemical linked to cancer.<\/p>\n<p>The lawsuits followed findings from Valisure, a laboratory founded by former Yale students, which identified high concentrations of benzene in some of the company\u2019s cosmetic products.<\/p>\n<p>Checks by the Peoples Gazette showed that CeraVe\u2019s overview of its over-the-counter skincare products confirmed the presence of benzoyl peroxide in concentrations ranging from 2.5 per cent to 10 per cent.<\/p>\n<p>The company also acknowledged that its products, such as Acne Foaming Cream Wash, contain 10 per cent benzoyl peroxide, while Acne Foaming Cream Cleanser contains 4 per cent, stating that the substance treats acne.<\/p>\n<p>A fact-checking platform, Snopes, listed the plaintiffs who initially filed separate lawsuits as follows: Jennifer Snow in Hawaii; Holly Grossenbacher in Louisiana; Ellen Painter and Robert Hightower in Missouri; Lucinda O\u2019Dea in Illinois; and Latifah Abednego in New York.<\/p>\n<p>The report stated that a panel of judges handling multidistrict litigation on February 7, 2025, reportedly denied a motion by the plaintiffs seeking to transfer their lawsuits to the federal district in Hawaii.<\/p>\n<p>The case, which is yet to be adjudicated as of press time, was reportedly transferred to the Southern District of New York in May 2025 for a hearing.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/gazettengr.com\/donate\/\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 100%;\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Artboard-14.png\" alt=\"Banner\" style=\"max-width: 100%; height: auto; display: block;\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"L\u2019Or\u00e9al, the French cosmetics giant and parent company of the skincare product CeraVe, is reportedly facing six class-action&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":861970,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[35],"tags":[351560,351561,147084,351562,156,26621,210,1141,1142,351563,1818,19536,351564,405,50,67,132,68,3812],"class_list":["post-861969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health-care","tag-acne-foaming-cream-cleanser","tag-acne-foaming-cream-wash","tag-cerave","tag-clichy","tag-france","tag-hawaii","tag-health","tag-health-care","tag-healthcare","tag-holly-grossenbacher","tag-illinois","tag-loreal","tag-latifah-abednego","tag-new-york","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us","tag-yale"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116736610104560637","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/861969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=861969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/861969\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/861970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=861969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=861969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=861969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}