Hanrahan v. Walgreen Company

Webster’s New International Dictionary, 2d Edition, defines cosmetic as “any external application intended to beautify and improve the complexion, skin, or hair.” The plaintiff has no evidence to cause the hair rinse she purchased from defendant to be deemed adulterated, as set forth in G.S. 106-136; or to cause it to be deemed misbranded, as set forth in G.S. 106-137; or to cause it to be deemed false advertising, as set forth in G.S. 106-138.

Plaintiff testified that the hair rinse she bought from defendant contained eight capsules, and she used all except three. Although three of these…