Monat
TINA.org investigated Monat Global as part of a larger investigation into atypical income claims used by MLM companies. To read more about TINA.org’s 2023 MLM Income Claims Investigation, click here.
How We Took Action
2024
August 12
Pursuant to its own monitoring of the direct selling industry and a TINA.org investigation, the DSSRC issues a case decision finding that Monat Global uses atypical earnings claims to market its business opportunity.
February 14
As part of its 2023 investigation into 100 MLM companies, TINA.org notifies Monat Global of its findings that the company has used atypical income claims to market its business opportunity.
2023
April 13
The FTC sends Monat Global a Notice of Penalty Offenses Concerning Substantiation putting the company on formal notice that it is unlawful to, among other things, make claims relating to the health benefits, safety, and effectiveness of products without competent and reliable scientific evidence to support them, and that disease-treatment claims must be substantiated by at least one randomized, controlled, and double-blinded human clinical trial of the product.
2021
October 26
The FTC sends Monat Global a Notice of Penalty Offenses Concerning Money-Making Opportunities putting the company on formal notice that it is an unfair or deceptive trade practice to misrepresent that profits or earnings are the ordinary, typical or average profits or earnings made by participants, and to fail to disclose conditions affecting income, such as expenses borne by the participants, among other things.
June 30
TINA.org sends a letter, along with a list of more than 660 direct selling companies that includes Monat Global, to the FTC urging it to implement a penalty offense program targeting the direct selling industry and its market-wide practice of using deceptive earnings representations and false health claims.
The Latest
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TINA.org investigation finds 98% of MLMs using misleading income claims.
How MLMs Exploit Consumers During a Pandemic
Deceptive earnings claims edition.
Monat Global Class Actions Piling Up
Lawsuits mount against hair care MLM Monat.
2017-2021 Pyramid Scheme Class Actions
Pyramid scheme claims against MLM companies on the rise.
TINA’s List
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Class-Action Tracker
Monat Dietary Supplements
Allegations: Falsely marketing products as “all-natural” and able to support physical performance, mental alertness, and focus, and provide energy
The Marketing of Monat Hair Care Products
December 2018: Plaintiffs filed a First Amended Master Consolidated Class Action Complaint alleging that the company misleadingly markets Monat products as “safe” and “clinically tested, proven and [g]uaranteed to deliver…
Hair Products from Monat Global
In July 2018, a class-action lawsuit was filed against Monat Global for allegedly promoting haircare products as “safe” and “suitable for all skin and hair types” when, according to plaintiffs,…
Haircare Products from Monat Global
June 2018: This case was transferred to a Florida court to be heard with other similar cases in a multidistrict litigation (MDL). To learn more about the MDL, click here.…
Monat Haircare Products
June 2018: This case was transferred to a Florida court to be heard with other similar cases in a multidistrict litigation (MDL). To learn more about the MDL, click here.…
Monat Hair Products
June 2018: These three cases (Mcwhortor, Row, and Sohovich) were transferred to a Florida court to be heard with other similar cases in a multidistrict litigation (MDL). To learn more…
Monat Hair Care Products
June 2018: These four cases (Alabaster, Hoffpauir, Merritt, and Whitmire) were transferred to a Florida court to be heard with other similar cases in a multidistrict litigation (MDL). To learn…