Alba's Honest Beauty Launches, Light On 'Natural' Claims
This article was originally published in The Rose Sheet
Executive Summary
One week after a consumer filed suit against The Honest Company for deceptive "natural" product marketing, the firm unveils Honest Beauty, an extensive makeup and skin-care collection marketed along similar lines, but without the "natural" allusions. Meanwhile, SPF-containing items in the collection feature non-nano zinc oxide in higher concentrations than the Honest sunscreen lotion that allegedly failed users earlier this year.
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