Gwen Whiting learned via Instagram direct messages that her former eco-conscious laundry brand, The Laundress, had issued a recall of approximately 8 million items due to harmful bacteria. The recall came after Whiting had left the company following its sale to Unilever.
Just before Thanksgiving in 2022, Gwen Whiting was getting her hair done when a friend forwarded her an Instagram post about, the line of upscale, plant-derived, low-preservative ecoconscious products that Whiting co-founded in 2002. In 2019, she had sold the company to Unilever for a reported $100 million; two years later, she had finished her employment contract under the conglomerate, which promptly terminated her company email address.
Earlier this year, those clauses expired and Whiting embarked on something of a revenge tour. On podcasts, she has said that, with the Unilever sale, she was unwittingly sending her baby “into foster care,” that she thought the Laundress needed someone bigger and better than she to grow, only to realize the wool had been pulled over her eyes and “there was no one better” for it than she was.
“I didn’t want to have to create a cleaning brand,” Whiting says. But signs kept pointing her in that direction. Friends who ran out of the Laundress kept writing her. “What do I use? I’m down to my last drip,” one messaged her. “And I certainly wasn’t going to start buying product at the grocery store, so I really had to do it,” Whiting adds. Her father, who owned a small electronics business and always had close relationships with his customers, was dying.
RECALL LAUNDRY PRODUCTS ECO-FRIENDLY GLEN WHITING THE LAUNDRESS
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