Amid global recession fears, Lauder anticipates continued double-digit growth in fiscal 2020 in China and travel retail, albeit at slower rates than seen in recent years. The firm booked 9% reported sales growth to roughly $14.9bn for the fiscal 2019 full year, fueled by a record-setting innovation program.

Launches announced in August include Clarisonic Mia Men, the brand’s first cleansing device specifically engineered for men’s thicker skin and beard, and Act Of Being, touted as “America’s first 100% vegan men’s grooming and skin-care brand.” Fragrances from Ariana Grande and Vince Camuto debut, along with Moroccanoil Color Depositing Masks and Avon Products’ True 5-in-1 Lash Genius mascara.

Brands target fans of Lady Gaga, "Ryan’s Mystery Playdate" and "healthier" sunscreen with product launches in July 2019.

Currently, representations on product labels dictate the levels of VOC content they are permitted to contain under the California Air Resources Board’s consumer products regulations. In its drive to tighten VOC limits, the agency is considering a change that would make online statements additional controlling factors for VOC categorization, one of several moves the personal-care industry aims to discourage.

Personal Care Products Council exec Tom Myers says it’s crucial that industry be involved now, ahead of proposed rulemaking expected from California’s “clean air agency” in 2020, to inform the Air Resources Board about reformulation challenges and opportunities to reduce levels of volatile organic compounds in line with state goals.

Market disruptions, “dramatically” higher prices, lost jobs and negative health consequences all are possible if legislation passed in New York in June to reduce 1,4-dioxane exposures is enacted in its current form, trade organizations say. Cleaning product industry advocates are leading the opposition, but personal-care manufacturers stand to be impacted as well.

UK regulator advises Cocoa Brown brand ambassador and TV personality Olivia Buckland to include "#ad" disclosure in Instagram posts touting the tanning mousse. Ruling is regulator's second in a week cracking on paid-for health and beauty influencer Instagram promotional posts not indicated as advertising.

The oft-raised question of how consumers interpret natural claims has come up again in the Advertising Standards Authority’s dispute resolution forum in the UK. PZ Cussons, which markets Original Source shower gel with “100% Natural Fragrance,” brought a challenge against Unilever/Radox, targeting the latter’s “100% Nature Inspired Fragrance” claim on similar products.

CEO says higher revenues on consumer health product sales partly due to higher prices should go to innovation rather than advertising. During Q2 earnings briefing, analysts suggest competitors will boost promotions and hamper C&D’s 4% organic growth outlook for 2019.

Hairburst’s hair-growth and hair-loss prevention claims on cosmetic products are inadequately substantiated, and many of the health claims it uses to promote food supplements are unauthorized, the Advertising Standards Authority says in a 14 Aug. decision.

UK regulator advises Cocoa Brown brand ambassador and TV personality Olivia Buckland to include "#ad" disclosure in Instagram posts touting the tanning mousse. Ruling is regulator's second in a week cracking on paid-for health and beauty influencer Instagram promotional posts not indicated as advertising.

Guthy-Renker disagrees with NAD's position the firm does not have objective evidence to support its treatment can “reverse crepey-looking skin.” NAD attorneys say the nature and extent of claims "should be directly analogous to the precision and specificity of the data used to substantiate.”