{"id":88841,"date":"2026-04-27T14:44:30","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T14:44:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/sephora-and-the-beauty-comseticorexia-probe-ft-shorts\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T14:44:30","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T14:44:30","slug":"sephora-and-the-beauty-comseticorexia-probe-ft-shorts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/sephora-and-the-beauty-comseticorexia-probe-ft-shorts\/","title":{"rendered":"Sephora and the beauty \u2018comseticorexia\u2019 probe | FT #shorts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Italian regulators are investigating LVMH-owned beauty retailer Sephora and the luxury group\u2019s Benefit Cosmetics brand over claims their marketing has <!--more--> allegedly fuelled &#8216;cosmeticorexia&#8217;, an unhealthy obsession with skincare among young girls.\u2060<br \/>\n\u2060<br \/>\nItaly\u2019s competition and market authority said it was probing Sephora and Benefit for suspected &#8216;unfair commercial practices&#8217; with the promotion of skincare products such as face masks, serums and anti-ageing creams to girls as young as 10 years old, the FT&#8217;s Amy Kazmin explains. \u2060<\/p>\n<p>#shortfeed #shortsviral #shortsvideo #shortsyoutube #business #sephora #beauty #marketing #cosmetics #italy <\/p>\n<p>\u25ba Enjoying FT content? Get a daily slice of the very best FT journalism with FT Edit. Free for 30 days then just \u00a34.99 a month<\/p>\n<p>See if you get the FT for free as a student (<a href=\"http:\/\/ft.com\/schoolsarefree\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/ft.com\/schoolsarefree<\/a>) or start a \u00a31 trial: <a href=\"https:\/\/subs.ft.com\/spa3_trial?segmentId=3d4ba81b-96bb-cef0-9ece-29efd6ef2132.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/subs.ft.com\/spa3_trial?segmentId=3d4ba81b-96bb-cef0-9ece-29efd6ef2132.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u25ba Check out our Community tab for more stories: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/<\/a>@FinancialTimes\/community<br \/>\n\u25ba  Listen to our podcasts: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/podcasts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.ft.com\/podcasts<\/a><br \/>\n\u25ba  Follow us on Instagram: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/financialtimes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/financialtimes<\/a><br \/>\n\u25ba  Follow us on Instagram: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/<\/a>@financialtimes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Italian regulators are investigating LVMH-owned beauty retailer Sephora and the luxury group\u2019s Benefit Cosmetics brand over claims their marketing has<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":88858,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88841\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}