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THE INTERVIEW

T he Honest Alba reportedly owning fifteen to as Target and Costco, as well as Meanwhile she works with
Company success twenty percent, earning her a spot with South Korea’s online retailer related charities including Safer
has skyrocketed. on Forbes’ list of America’s richest Coupang. Moreover, the Honest Chemicals Healthy Families,
In three years it self-made women. Company offers accountability ONE, Habitat for Humanity,
became a billion-dollar company To date, the company has over to the consumer. Its website not Project HOME and more.
and Alba’s confidence is no longer 120 products, no longer just for only lists product ingredient Flaunting her stuff and acting
flailing, according to producer babies and Alba can describe each information, prices and shopping are in her blood. Not even
hubby Warren, one of them unerringly. There services available, it also provides running a billion-dollar company,
are personal care items, soaps, the consumer with the sourcing of while being a conscientious
“This is the first time she knows shampoos, detergents, household the ingredients. environmentalist and involved
she’s smart. She wakes up thinking cleaning items, sunblock, beauty Despite her prodigious success, mother is enough to slow down
about Honest; she goes to bed products and more. The appeal is Alba feels she is just getting this sexy dynamo. Though selective
thinking about it.” in the product and its store-bought started, “If we really want to make in her projects, at the fledgling age
or delivered availability in the U.S., a difference in the world and of 35, fitting it in somewhere, she
The Honest Company was valued Canada, and at boutique stores people’s health, its billions and has also been acting.
in 2014 at $150 million U.S. and and popular chain stores such billions of dollars, not just one.”
is now valued at 1.7 billion, with

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