If you keep up with beauty industry news and gossip, you’ll likely feel that recently, skin, makeup and hair products are being recalled left, right and centre. It almost seems as though every month, we wake up to news of something else being pulled from the shelves, and it’s normal to not really understand why. Here’s what you need to know about the process, why it happens, and most importantly, what you should do if one of your products is affected.
While recalls have always been a ‘thing,’ there’s been more chatter around them lately than normal. One of the biggest talking points has been Ultra Violette’s removal of its Lean Screen SPF from the shelves. After undergoing independent testing, the brand found that their findings “demonstrated significant and, candidly, atypical variability,” in terms of the product’s sun protection factor. Labelled as SPF 50+, eight different tests of Lean Screen returned SPF data of 4, 10, 21, 26, 33, 60, 61, and 64. Ultra Violette immediately recalled the formula, and is offering refunds to those affected.
