The estimated $700,000 settlement puts to rest allegations that the luxury skin-care firm deceived consumers with claims about its PhytoCellTec ingredient’s ability to slow the aging process. G.M. Collin, another PhytoCellTec Malus Domestica user, also appears to have reached a deal with plaintiffs in litigation challenging its anti-aging claims.

Claims for L’Oreal’s Lancome brand’s Genifique anti-aging line identify the products as drugs, FDA says. The agency cites claims that the brand’s technology “boosts the activity of genes” and “has been shown to improve the condition” around stem cells – language not unique in the anti-aging cosmeceutical market.

Claims for L’Oreal’s Lancome brand’s Genifique anti-aging line identify the products as drugs, FDA says. The agency cites claims that the brand’s technology “boosts the activity of genes” and “has been shown to improve the condition” around stem cells – language not unique in the anti-aging cosmeceutical market.

L’Oreal/Lancome’s claims for Genifique anti-aging products, among others, identify the products as drugs under food and drug law, according to FDA’s Sept. 7 warning letter. Agency cites claims suggesting the brand’s technology “boosts the activity of genes” and “improve[s] the condition around the stem cells” – language that is not altogether unique in today’s anti-aging cosmeceutical market.