Dr. Teal’s Class Action Says Epsom Salts Have No Health Benefits

A class action lawsuit alleges that Dr. Teal’s Epsom Salts do not produce any of the advertised health benefits.

Plaintiff Daniel Okoe says he purchased a three pound bag of Dr. Teal’s Pure Epsom Salt Soaking Solution, Detoxify & Energize with Ginger & Clay on Amazon for $4.87.

The Dr. Teal’s Epsom Salts class action states that Okoe purchased the product at least in part to receive the health benefits advertised on the label.

However, the plaintiff says he discovered after he purchased the product that the Epsom Salts did not provide the advertised benefits.

Okoe claims that the label represented that the Epsom salts would “cleanse away body’s impurities,” and that it “[e]ases aches and soreness from muscle pains.”

The plaintiff goes on to state that he used the product as directed but did not experience any of the promised benefits.

According to the Dr. Teal’s class action lawsuit, he was denied the benefit of his bargain, because he did not receive the benefits he expected to receive after making his purchase.

Okoe argues that he was financially injured by Parfums de Coeur LTD, the makers of the Epsom Salts, because the company allegedly misrepresented their products.

He says that “since using the Product in no way added to the ordinary experience of taking a bath, he was injured in the amount of the full purchased price.”

The Dr. Teal’s Epsom Salt class action lawsuit argues that Parfums de Coeur LTD knowingly misrepresented the Epsom Salts in an effort to gain more profits from the sale of the products.

Allegedly, many folk tales associate Epsom Salts with healing properties, and people seek out the salts because of the benefits that are supposedly associated with them.

However, the Dr. Teal’s Epsom Salt class action lawsuit goes on to argue that “these folk stories are just that, and no more,” claiming that the product cannot offer pain relief, as stated by Parfums de Coeur in the advertisement for the products.

Allegedly, the company “exploits the mythology that grew out of the discovery of Epsom salt four hundred years ago, in the scientifically ignorant early 17th century, in order to peddle a snake-oil solution to muscle pain that adds nothing to the benefits of an ordinary hot bath.”

Okoe then claims that the muscle pain relief is not the only fictitious benefit that the Epsom Salt’s maker advertises.

The Dr. Teal’s Epsom Salt class action further states that the company claims the salts can “detoxify” a user’s body.

The plaintiff says that in reality, detoxification is not a real process, but a pseudo-scientific concept “used to market health and wellness.”

Okoe argues that the defendant advertises their products as having detoxification properties in order to capitalize on consumers’ desire for products that have health benefits.

Allegedly, “detoxification” is only a real scientific context in the context of recovering from a dangerous level of drugs, alcohol, and poisons.

However, “detoxification,” as it is used in pseudo-scientific contexts and the “health and wellness” industry produces no benefits because it is “designed to treat a nonexistent condition.”

Okoe is represented by C.K. Lee of Lee Litigation Group PLLC and by Stephen M. Bourtin of The Boyd Law Group PLLC.

The Dr. Teal’s Epsom Salt Class Action Lawsuit is Daniel Okoe v. Parfums de Coeur LTD, Case No. 3:18-cv-01979-VLB, in the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut.