Actress Jessica Alba has said that becoming a mother inspired her to create her eco-friendly company The Honest Company.
The Sin City star, who is mum to two-year-old Haven and Honor who is five, says there was a lack of safe, eco-friendly baby products on the market when she was pregnant with her first child.
Talking at the NBC Universal Power of the Purse breakfast, the 32-year-old said: “As a parent you want to do the best you can to prevent your child from suffering from anything that's not necessary. And that's obviously what you feed them, what you clean your home with, what you clean your laundry and dishes with, what you put on your skin and your babies' skin and what they injest at every level."
She added: "I think we mistakenly trust where we shop and we think that if it's on a shelf and marketed in a pretty way it's safe, and it's just not. We realise more and more that big corporations are just about their bottom line."
The American actress, who is married to Cash Warren, admits that it is not about the money and claims "there is no slapping my name on it and getting money."
She went on to say: "This is not from an arrogant or ego-driven place, but from healthy products for families, that's just right. And making them affordable, that's just right, and fundamentally they should be available."
