Conscious Beauty, launching at Ulta in the fall, is built around five pillars for product certification – clean ingredients, cruelty free, vegan, sustainable packaging and positive impact. Clean ingredients means no parabens, phthalates or listed ingredients in 25 other categories, the retailer says.

Cosmetics regulatory reform efforts continued in 2019, which also saw Congress’s first cosmetics safety hearing since 2016. Meanwhile, the “clean” beauty movement gained momentum, fueled by the widely held perception that outdated regulations are allowing cosmetics consumers to be exposed to dangerous chemicals.

The US FDA applied laboratory data integrity inspection technique to production floor, leading to warning letter, import alert.

Nonprofit advocacy group says one third of echinacea and turmeric supplements it tested contained ingredients in amounts lower than labeled or elevated levels of lead or bacteria. Industry groups say CR used "arbitrary" standards based on preconceived, critical view of US supplement regulation.