The actress has devoted body and soul to building The Honest Company, a safe, sustainable and non-toxic consumer products business. Keep reading and find out all the details!
The actress has devoted body and soul to building The Honest Company, a safe, sustainable and non-toxic consumer products business. Keep reading and find out all the details!
It's Kombucha Thursday at The Honest Company's Santa Monica headquarters; That means groups of employees, mostly elegant young men, gather around communal tables in a former toy factory to sip the fashionable fermented tea. Jessica Alba, the Hollywood star and co-founder of the company, sits in the adjacent room.
She will be joining her troops shortly, but for now, she is paralyzed by a box of tampons that look more like an expensive candle than a Tampax.
“We use completely organic cotton, a plant-based polymer and a bioplastic applicator,” says the 34-year-old entrepreneur and actress seriously.
The Honest Company has experienced an absurd level of growth. In 2012, their first year selling products, they reached $10 million in revenue. Last year it was 150 million and industry experts forecast more than 250 million this year.
Alba, who owns between 15% and 20% of the company, according to a source with knowledge of her investment, is sitting on a fortune of 200 million. She is on her way to earning a spot on the new Forbes ranking of America's richest self-made women.