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Taraji P. Henson Drags Skincare Company Over False Endorsement—Plus Some Tea On The Company’s History Of Exploiting Black Women

<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; left&semi;">Earlier this morning&comma; &num;TarajiPHenson went off on a skincare company for false advertising&period; Under an Instagram post&comma; the actress dragged Urban Skincare Rx—which is owned by a white woman named &num;RachelRoff in North Carolina—for using her face in one of their ads&excl;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><img class&equals;"alignnone size-daze&lowbar;wrapper&lowbar;width wp-image-34117" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;dev&period;theshaderoom&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2018&sol;02&sol;Watermarked2018-02-14-0111-1140x1140&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" width&equals;"1140" height&equals;"1140" &sol;><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;THIS IS A FALSE ADVERTISEMENT&excl;&excl;&excl;&excl;&excl;&excl;&excl;&excl;&excl;&excl;&excl; I AM NOT THE SPOKESPERSON FOR THIS BRAND&excl;&excl;&excl;&excl;&excl; I have NEVER used that serum a day in my life&excl;&excl;&excl;&excl;&excl; THIS IS FALSE NEWS AND JUST A PLAIN LIE&excl;&excl;&excl;&excl;&excl;&&num;8221&semi; Henson screamed through text&period; According to &commat;Blast&comma; Henson had previously got in their a&ast;&ast;es about including her name in a radio commercial&period; We are told that the company eventually took the post down after Taraji read them for filth&comma; but there&&num;8217&semi;s some other tea that we have to get y&&num;8217&semi;all hip to&excl;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Some of you who may already be familiar with Urban Skincare Rx know the company used to have two co-owners—Rachel Roff and Charity Washington&excl; According to our source&comma; Roff allegedly used Washington to lure in black clients and media contacts which is why there are still pictures of her up on the website&excl; Once she got everything she wanted&comma; Roff allegedly cut ties with Washington&comma; but she decided to let it go and let karma take over&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>I mean&comma; why does a white woman own and develop products for an urban Skincare line in the first place&quest; She must be trying to get her market share of the black dollar&excl; I ain&&num;8217&semi;t mad&comma; chile &colon;nail&lowbar;care&colon;&colon;skin-tone-4&colon; but what in the &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Get Out” is this&quest;&excl;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Anyway&comma; Roff took some personal jabs at Henson on her Instagram&period; She quoted Maya Angelou &&num;8220&semi;Still I Rise&&num;8221&semi; as if she is unphased by Taraji&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><amp-instagram data-shortcode&equals;"BfJCau0ghlZ" layout&equals;"responsive" width&equals;"600" height&equals;"600" data-captioned><&sol;amp-instagram><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>TSR STAFF&colon; Talia O&period; &commat;theclosetratchet on IG<br &sol;>&NewLine;Source&colon; https&colon;&sol;&sol;theblast&period;com&sol;taraj-p-henson-fake-endorsement&sol;<&sol;p>&NewLine; <div class&equals;"wpra-reactions-wrap wpra-plugin-container" style&equals;"justify-content&colon; center&semi;&semi;"> <div class&equals;"wpra-reactions-container" data-ver&equals;"1&period;3&period;10" data-post&lowbar;id&equals;"34100" data-show&lowbar;count&equals;"true" data-enable&lowbar;share&equals;"onclick" data-behavior&equals;"regular" data-animation&equals;"true" data-share&lowbar;url&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;dev&period;theshaderoom&period;com&sol;taraji-p-henson-drags-skincare-company-false-endorsement-plus-tea-companys-history-exploiting-black-women&sol;" data-secure&equals;"a5508e3f4d"> <div class&equals;"wpra-call-to-action" style&equals;"color&colon; 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