On March 27, 2026, Italy's competition authority opened two formal investigations into LVMH-owned Sephora and Benefit Cosmetics. The charge, essentially, is this: that both brands used covert influencer marketing to push adult skincare products, including serums, face masks, and anti-ageing creams, at children as young as ten. That they omitted or obscured product warnings about items not tested on minors. That they profited from a social media trend that was always ethically dubious and is now, at least in Italy, legally actionable.
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