“The Rose Sheet” offers an overview of the year in cosmetics, analyzing 2013’s biggest news and the publication’s most-read stories. Highlights include industry efforts in the U.S. to negotiate a legislative proposal with FDA, movement among retailers to implement cosmetic safety standards and an uptick in class-action litigation targeting alleged misleading personal-care claims.

Plaintiffs strike out with women and a California district court judge as multiple claims are dismissed in a suit alleging false advertising for Dial for Men Magnetic body wash, which evidently does not guarantee attention from the opposite sex.

Class-action suits against beauty firms on the rise as industry pushes the envelope with claims and FDA warning letters draw attention from class-action law firms, legal experts note. Hogan Lovells attorney Mark Goodman says: “I don’t see this [trend] going away anytime soon.”