Paul Mitchell Warns Of Counterfeit Hair Care Products

We have a consumer alert tonight on something you may be buying all the time. Are you getting what you actually pay for when you purchase haircare products, yeah never know at least one brand in fact says what sold in big retail stores may not be. What you think s-seven Action News reporter our new Prakash, explains how to protect yourself and your money. Some woman will spend more than forty thousand dollars on their hair in their lifetime, whether that money is spent in the salon or store. You hope what you're getting is as advertised Action News, but this Paul Mitchell shampoo from Target. We assumed, like the shopper, that it's the conventional brand because it has the trademark on it and everything Paul Mitchell, company reps say you just can't be sure it's either counterfeit tampered with or black-market Robert Crowe means is the global artistic director for John Paul Mitchell Systems Commonly called Paul Mitchell, we don't sell to these outlets. We only sell to professional salons like mine and other salons around the world, but Action News found Paul Mitchell products and targets, CVS and Walgreens. The fact of the matter is they're not buying directly from us. Paul Mitchell says it has contracts with distributors that are only in the professional hair care industry. The distributors then sell the products to the salons somewhere in that chain. Paul Mitchell says a wholesaler, gets involved and buys the product in what the company calls a backdoor deal. The product then ends up on shelves and retail stores, where it should never be that kind of kooky old it could be tampered with. It could be counterfeit, but Vikki Bresnahan is in charge of brand protection at the company and she says old products won't perform well. Counterfeit products could be dangerous. She points out a counterfeit case where the fake Paul Mitchell product had high levels of bacteria, and while you might not be able to tell which one is guaranteed by the bottle, smell or even consistency. The company says there is usually one big difference and it might surprise you it usually costs more in a drug store supermarket than it does in the professional salon. Bresnahan says the products in the stores cost between 50 cents and five dollars more Action News did a quick check, comparing one salon with one retail store and sure enough. The Palmas color protect daily cost 21 dollars and 89 cents at the salon and nearly $ 1. More at the store because the product has to change hands so many times to get there and everyone needs a cut. They say the best way to protect your hair, health and wallet is to buy from a certified salon a new prakash, 7 Action News. Yeah never thought about that because you see them in stores all the time you don't know there might be common. Do you think you maybe get a deal on it, but you don't know what you're getting it in k and again it could just be bad, not work or it could be dangerous, so just be careful about that, buy everywhere. Right,