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Perhaps it’s going to take a candle that’s supposed to smell like a vagina exploding to knock down Goop, Gwyneth Paltrow’s lifestyle company selling shambolic products and pseudoscience that experts say pose “health risks”.

Probably not, though.

Although her company has been sued for the aforementioned ‘exploding’ vagina-scented candle, in this age where misinformation thrives, people’s misguided attempt to stay healthy and relevant will keep the likes of Paltrow afloat.

Texan Colby Watson was the victim of this infamous “This Smells Like My Vagina” candle, which Paltrow named as a sort of joke while reportedly on mushrooms:

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Watson explained what happened with the candle, as per Sky News:

After burning it for about three hours on his bedside table, he alleged the candle “exploded” and became “engulfed in high flames”, according to a court document.

He said the blaze left a “black burn ring” on his bedside table and the candle jar was “charred and black”.

Nobody was hurt during the ordeal.

Apparently, the Goop website has a warning on its website advising people not to burn the candle for more than two hours.

While Watson acknowledged this, he still insists that Goop “knew the candles were defective”.

Goop isn’t worried about the case:

“We’re confident this claim is frivolous and an attempt to secure an outsized payout from a press-heavy product. We stand behind the brands we carry and the safety of the products we sell,” a Goop spokesperson told Sky News affiliate NBC News.

“Here, Heretic – the brand that supplies the candle – has substantiated the product’s performance and safety through industry standard testing.”

Watson spent $75 (around R1 000) on the candle and is seeking a jury trial and triple compensation, as well as punitive damages of more than $5 million (R70 million) for him and others who “through no fault of their own, purchased defective and dangerous vagina-scented candles,” the court document said.

Yes, there were others.

Jody Thompson, for example, wrote in The Guardian about the exact same thing happening to her:

I trimmed the wick as instructed and put it on a candle coaster in our front room. It smelled really nice – of bergamot, cedarwood and rose.

The next night, however, all hell was unleashed.

Goop didn’t admit to the defectiveness and instead, offered to send Thompson more of their products as an apology.

I wonder if knowing that Paltrow claps along with another pseudoscience fanatic turned sex cult messiah would have stopped them from making the dubious purchase in the first place.

This isn’t the first time that Goop has had complaints about their products, NBC News reports:

The company has been criticized for its at-times dubious health benefits, including an advertisement that falsely claimed its jade and quartz “egg” products could be used to maintain vaginal health.

In 2018, Goop agreed to pay $145 000 in civil penalties in a California settlement because the claims were deemed “unsubstantiated.”

Word to the wise – just keep anything vagina-related from Goop far, far away.

Those dollars are not worth the trouble.

[sources:skynews&nbcnews]