Review (5/5): Cashmere Bouquet Body Powder removed from market
I've used this since I received my first container at Ft McClellan, AL as Christmas gift during AIT in 1970 until spring 2015. Loved it. Unfortunately, it's been removed from market. Woman won $13 million lawsuit in 2015 against company that made it. Jury decided she had contracted mesothelioma from using Cashmere Bouquet talcum powder for about 15 years. Evidence in the case revealed that Colgate-Palmolive made Cashmere Bouquet from the 1930s to 1995. Prior to 1985, the company sourced talc from three different mines that were documented as being contaminated with asbestos as early as the 1940s. Colgate-Palmolive's own later testing of the talc found it to contain asbestos, but never passed this information on to either the FDA or consumers. How sad. I loved the stuff. I'll really miss it. Nothing else smells or feels quite like it. I knew about asbestos in our crayons, but never suspected talcum powder. I never got mesothelioma .. just some small-cell lung cancer.