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Two women from Illinois are accusing Dollar General of selling a store-brand aloe vera gel that actually contains no aloe vera whatsoever.
Plaintiffs Thera Lambert and Amy Connor are challenging the store chain over its DG Body Soothing Aloe Gel. Defendant Dollar General labels this product as containing “aloe barbadensis leaf extract,” they say. However, the plaintiffs claim that testing by an independent laboratory found no aloe vera in this product.
In their Dollar General aloe gel class action lawsuit, the plaintiffs include photographs of the labels from the products at issue. On both the 6-ounce tube and the 16-ounce bottle, the labels’ ingredients list says the product contains “aloe barbadensis leaf extract.”
Lambert and Conner decided to verify the product’s aloe content for themselves. According to this Dollar General class action lawsuit, the plaintiffs’ attorneys arranged to have the products at issue tested to confirm whether or not they actually contain aloe vera.
Chemical testing for aloe vera content determines whether the product contains a substance called acemannan, the plaintiff say. They quote the International Aloe Science Council as stating that “[p]roducts that do not contain Acemannan are not considered to be true aloe vera.”
The plaintiffs say testing of Dollar General’s store-brand aloe gel revealed it contains no acemannan – and therefore no real aloe vera.
“Based on these test results, Defendant’s descriptions of its Product as containing ‘Aloe’ or ‘Aloe Barbadensis Leaf Extract’ are false, deceptive, and misleading,” the plaintiffs say.
Both Lambert and Connor say they purchased Dollar General aloe vera gel at various times in 2015 and 2016. They claim they would never have bought the gel if they had known it does not actually contain aloe vera. The lack of real aloe vera gel in the product makes it essentially worthless, according to their Dollar General class action lawsuit.
Lambert and Conner are proposing to represent a nationwide plaintiff Class that would encompass all persons in the U.S. who purchased DG Body Soothing Aloe Gel within four years of the filing of this action.
A proposed subclass would represent Class Members in the specific states of California, Florida, Illinois, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, and Wisconsin.
The plaintiffs are asking for a court order barring Dollar General from continuing the allegedly false advertising complained of. They also seek an award of actual and statutory damages, restitution of revenues improperly gained, and reimbursement of attorneys’ fees and costs of litigation.
The plaintiffs are represented by attorneys Jeffrey A. Berman and Brian J. Wanca of Anderson + Wanca, in association with attorneys from Barbat Mansour & Suciu PLLC, Kohn Swift & Graf PC, Sommers Schwartz PC, The JTB Law Group LLC, Greg Coleman Law PC, Ram Olson Cereghino & Kopczynski LLP, Morgan & Morgan Complex Litigation Group, Levi & Korsinsky LLP, and Turke & Strauss LLP.
The Dollar General Fake Aloe Vera Gel Class Action Lawsuit is Thera Lambert, et al. v. Dollar General Corp., Case No. 1:16-cv-11319, in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.
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15 thoughts onDollar General Class Action Says Customers Scammed by Fake Aloe Gel
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I can agree that this stuff is kind of a waste of time and money. I really had my hopes up for it when I bought it a while ago. It sucks that we cant trust what we buy in some places anymore. The other added ingredients in this “aloe gel” are also not really completely safe, either. I was wondering, myself, whether this was real or not. The ingredients have thickeners, glycerine, fragrance, and coloring in them, along with a couple different formaldehyde releasers, and alcohol, which would make it a lot less safe than natural aloe, and potentially allergenic. I feel like this product is basically an imitation, that lacks the benefits of real aloe vera. It’s disappointing, expecting to get a good product, and ending up with something fake. I don’t like being lied to, especially when I am spending money on something from a company who I hope to trust, but they won’t even tell the truth about whether their product is real, or not. It’s pretty bad that they would disguise it by adding ingredients that make it smell, look, and almost feel like the real thing. I used to have aloe plants growing up, and this felt different from what I could remember using as a kid. I feel like it actually makes my skin feel a little bit itchy, and slightly irritated, even when I use it without any sunburn or prior irritation. I just used it a few minutes ago, and I got curious about the ingredients, so that’s how I came across this article. I typically have some redness on my face a lot of the time, and this didn’t seem to make it any worse, yet (besides the slight itch, and developing burning feeling that I am experiencing right now, in the time it took to write and edit this), but it didn’t make it noticeably better, either. It did help with some of the dryness, and it doesn’t feel greasy at all (in fact, is has a tightening effect), but there are other things out there, which can do the same exact thing, and actually add benefits, instead of taking them away in the long run (with the alcohol and formaldehydes). This kind of makes me not want to buy any more generic products unless I have the chance to really research them first. I wish I could test the chemicals in some of them, myself, but I don’t have that kind of equipment. I just have to trust what the bottle says, unfortunately, and hope that I don’t have a bad reaction.
Wow low blow by dollar general. I have been using this product on my son who has hives thinking it would help him but I guess I was wrong. Makes me not want to buy any of their products anymore.
They are still selling this product! I bought this exact bottle a couple of months ago at Dollar General!
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just want to add please include me in the class action lawsuit. Thank You
i bought some during the summer and still had almost the whole tube left when i needed it to help with radiation burns to my right breast and under arm cause i could not use anything with perfumes no wonder why it didn’t seem to help,,,,,unbelievable!
I have that and I live in Alabama and been using it for my very dry skin. how do I file.
OMG I have this stuff right now. We bought it this summer when we got burned to a crisp from a day at the beach. It didn’t help and I didn’t understand why. NOW I KNOW. ugh.
I always buy Dollar General merchandise but didn’t know that the Alone Vera is fake. Wow they were ripping us consumers off& got away with it,that’s terrible. I used the Alone Vera for soft skin last year because I was having skin issues but no wonder why it didn’t help me.
Look for products that display the International Aloe Science Council seal or reference certification by the International Aloe Science Council. This assures consumers that they are purchasing products that actually have been tested to contain aloe vera barbadensis juice (as opposed to extract).
I live in illinois and sunburns are not fun.I. buy dg brands all the time and owning a pool with many kids swimming we have bought this product quite often . This is sad