Jessica Alba’s Honest Co. to Drop Use of Disputed Ingredient

Honest Co., the consumer-products business co-founded by actress Jessica Alba, is reformulating its laundry detergent and other cleaning products, removing an ingredient that has created controversy for the company, according to people familiar with the matter.

The five-year-old Santa Monica, Calif., company sells household, baby and personal-care products that it markets as made without chemicals that it says are harsh or...