{"id":1747,"date":"2019-03-16T16:12:39","date_gmt":"1970-01-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/live-tcan.pantheonsite.io\/?page_id=1747"},"modified":"2019-03-16T16:12:39","modified_gmt":"1970-01-01T00:00:00","slug":"wen-hair-class-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usclassactions.com\/?p=1747","title":{"rendered":"WEN Hair Class Action"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>WEN Hair Product Class Action Investigation<\/h5>\n<p>WEN hair care products are suspected of causing severe damage to hair, possibly even causing baldness.\u00a0If you have purchased or used WEN hair care products, you may have caused permanent damage to your hair and scalp.\u00a0Please contact us using the form on this page or call us at <a href=\"tel:+213-212-2202\"><strong>213-212-2202<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0The Class Action News is currently investigating this case.<\/p>\n<h5>Background<\/h5>\n<p>WEN by Chaz Dean is a brand of hair care products sold and produced by Guthy-Renker LLC.\u00a0 Consumers have reported that WEN products have caused severe and possibly permanent damage to hair, including significant hair loss to the point of visible bald spots, hair breakage, scalp irritation and rash.\u00a0Initial claims of hair loss date back to as early as January of 2014, when a WEN product user reported that she \u00a0\u201cbegan losing substantial and abnormal amounts of hair\u201d after using the product for only two weeks.\u00a0 Her hair loss continued for approximately three weeks after she stopped using WEN.\u00a0 By the time the hair loss stopped, she had lost \u201cone quarter to one third\u201d of the hair on her head.\u00a0 She further claims that she had to spend a substantial amount of money to try and correct the damage caused by WEN.\u00a0Since the first reports of hair loss hundreds of similar complaints have arisen.<\/p>\n<p>One chemist claims that initial analysis of WEN products show that they \u201ccontain virtually no cleanser.\u201d\u00a0 She says, \u201cIt\u2019s like using lotion to wash your hair, so instead of removing the product, when you rinse it off, it just becomes impacted in your hair follicle.\u201d\u00a0 Although not confirmed by WEN, this process seems to cause hair loss in numerous cases.<\/p>\n<p>The Guthy-Renker company claims that it has shipped over 10 million WEN products since 2008, and that customers\u2019 responses have been overwhelmingly positive.\u00a0However, the WEN website itself states that the results of more shiny, moisturized, and manageable hair is not typical of most users.\u00a0If positive results are not typical, then these statements by WEN only serve to mislead potential consumers.<\/p>\n<h5>Product Defect<\/h5>\n<p>A consumer product may be defective if some part of the design or manufacturing process causes the product to be unreasonably dangerous.\u00a0A design defect is when a product has been poorly designed or tested, which results in a dangerous product or a product that does not perform its function.\u00a0A manufacturing defect is when an unintentional mistake in the manufacturing process creates a danger or non-functional product.\u00a0A product may also be defective if it does not come with proper instructions or warnings.<\/p>\n<p>Product defects are often dangerous to anyone who may use the product.\u00a0Such products are unfit for sale and whoever sold or manufactured the product should be held accountable.\u00a0Being part of a class action lawsuit is one way to remedy the damage done to consumers.<\/p>\n<h5>Potential Class Action Lawsuit<\/h5>\n<p>Reports indicate that WEN hair care products cause severe damage to hair, including hair loss.\u00a0If you have purchased or used WEN hair care products, you may have caused permanent damage to your hair and scalp. Please contact us using the form on this page or call us at <a href=\"tel:+213-212-2202\">213-212-2202<\/a>. You may be part of a class action lawsuit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WEN Hair Product Class Action Investigation WEN hair care products are suspected of causing severe damage to hair, possibly even causing baldness.\u00a0If you have purchased or used WEN hair care products, you may have caused permanent damage to your hair and scalp.\u00a0Please contact us using the form on this page or call us at 213-212-2202.\u00a0The &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3021,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[79,80],"class_list":["post-1747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-defective-products","tag-hair","tag-wen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usclassactions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usclassactions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usclassactions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usclassactions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usclassactions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usclassactions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1747\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usclassactions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usclassactions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usclassactions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usclassactions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}