US EditionOntario court hands $750K fine to Estee Lauder over use of ‘forever chemical’ in select eyeliner products
Estée Lauder pleaded guilty to using a banned PFAS chemical in eyeliners and was fined $750,000, with proceeds going to the federal environmental damages fund.
- The Canadian Press reported Feb. 2, 2026, that Estée Lauder was fined $750,000 after pleading guilty to two counts under the Canadian Environmental Protection Act.
- In May 2023, Environment and Climate Change Canada found perfluorononyl dimethicone listed in some eyeliner products and says companies were required to notify the government before adding it, but Estée Lauder did not do so.
- In June 2023, regulators issued a compliance order that Estée Lauder ignored, and in recent years Groupe Marcelle Inc. was fined $500,000 for marketing products with the same substance.
- The court ordered Estée Lauder to notify shareholders and added its name to the environmental offenders registry, with the $750,000 fine directed to the federal environmental damages fund.
- Advocacy groups Environmental Defence, Ecojustice and Breast Cancer Action Quebec said they were pleased by enforcement and urged Canada to finalize PFAS listing under CEPA and draft phase-out rules.
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Estée Lauder fined $750k for using 'forever chemicals' in some eyeliners
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Ontario court hands $750K fine to Estee Lauder over use of ‘forever chemical’ in select eyeliner products
An Ontario court has issued a $750,000 fine to Estee Lauder after the cosmetics company pled guilty to violating the Canadian Environmental Protection Act following the discovery of a “forever chemical” in select eyeliner products.
The luxury cosmetics giant Estée Lauder is fined $750,000 after pleading guilty to the presence of eternal chemicals in eye tracers.
Canada fined the US cosmetics multinational Estée Lauder 750,000 Canadian dollars (550,000 US dollars) on Monday for importing and distributing products in the country containing perfluoroalkyl substances, the so-called 'forever chemicals'. The Canadian Ministry of Environment and Climate Change said in a statement that on January 13, the company pleaded guilty in a Canadian court to two counts of violating Canadian environmental laws.
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