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Violation Tracker Industry Summary Page
Industry: household and personal care products
Penalty Total since 2000: $2,237,535,366
Number of Records: 321
Note: The totals include only those entries matched to a parent company. The industry designation is the primary one for the parent's operations overall. The totals are adjusted to account for the fact that each parent's entries may include both agency records and settlement announcements for the same case; or else a penalty covering multiple locations may be listed in the individual records for each of the facilities. They are also adjusted to reflect cases in which federal and state or local agencies cooperated and issued separate announcements of the outcome. Duplicate or overlapping penalty amounts are marked with an asterisk in the individual records list below.
| Top 10 Current Parent Companies | Total Penalty $ | Number of Records |
| Reckitt Benckiser | $1,875,910,852 | 24 |
| Procter & Gamble | $89,602,932 | 47 |
| Natura & Co. | $67,648,000 | 1 |
| Colgate-Palmolive | $63,166,336 | 21 |
| S.C. Johnson & Son | $35,937,644 | 8 |
| Kimberly-Clark | $34,630,371 | 32 |
| Henkel | $28,720,172 | 52 |
| Estee Lauder | $18,241,250 | 8 |
| L'Oreal | $12,473,500 | 3 |
| Beiersdorf | $4,462,962 | 8 |
Individual Penalty Records:
Click on the company or penalty amount for more information on each case. Click on the parent name to reach the summary page for that parent company.
| Company | Current Parent | Primary Offense Type | Year | Agency  | Penalty Amount |
| Colgate-Palmolive Co. | Colgate-Palmolive | benefit plan administrator violation | 2014 | private lawsuit-federal | $45,900,000 |
| SC Johnson & Sons Inc. | S.C. Johnson & Son | benefit plan administrator violation | 2015 | private lawsuit-federal | $34,150,000 |
| Henkel Corporation | Henkel | benefit plan administrator violation | 2015 | private lawsuit-federal | $3,350,000 |
| Church and Dwight Co., Inc. | Church & Dwight | Fair Credit Reporting Act violation | 2019 | private lawsuit-federal | $300,000 |
| Hill's Pet Nutrition Inc. | Colgate-Palmolive | product safety violation | 2021 | private lawsuit-federal | $12,500,000 |
| Beiersdorf, Inc. | Beiersdorf | product safety violation | 2023 | private lawsuit-federal | $2,300,000 |
| Estee Lauder Companies Inc. | Estee Lauder | price-fixing or anti-competitive practices | 2005 | private lawsuit-federal | $12,437,500 |
| L'Oreal USA Inc. | L'Oreal | price-fixing or anti-competitive practices | 2005 | private lawsuit-federal | $12,437,500 |
| Beiersdorf Inc. | Beiersdorf | consumer protection violation | 2021 | private lawsuit-federal | $1,125,000 |
| Tom's of Maine Inc. | Colgate-Palmolive | consumer protection violation | 2016 | private lawsuit-federal | $4,500,000 |
| Dial Corporation | Henkel | consumer protection violation | 2019 | private lawsuit-federal | $7,400,000 |
| Henkel Consumer Goods Inc. | Henkel | consumer protection violation | 2019 | private lawsuit-federal | $1,500,000 |
| Gillette Company | Procter & Gamble | consumer protection violation | 2011 | private lawsuit-federal | $7,500,000 |
| Procter & Gamble Company | Procter & Gamble | consumer protection violation | 2018 | private lawsuit-federal | $30,000,000 |
| Procter & Gamble Company | Procter & Gamble | consumer protection violation | 2014 | private lawsuit-federal | $50,000,000 |
| Mead Johnson & Co. | Reckitt Benckiser | consumer protection violation | 2011 | private lawsuit-federal | $12,000,000 |
| Reckitt Benckiser LLC | Reckitt Benckiser | consumer protection violation | 2021 | private lawsuit-federal | $50,000,000 |
| Kimberly-Clark | Kimberly-Clark | consumer protection violation | 2023 | private lawsuit-federal | $20,000,000 |
| Henkel Corporation and Thriving Brands LLC | Henkel | product safety violation | 2023 | private lawsuit-federal | $1,950,000 |
| Kimberly-Clark Corp. | Kimberly-Clark | product safety violation | 2024 | private lawsuit-federal | $13,500,000 |
| Reckitt Benckiser | Reckitt Benckiser | consumer protection violation | 2024 | private lawsuit-federal | $3,275,000 |
