A 2022 BBC News, Mongabay and the Gecko Project released a joint investigation that looked into a scheme that was intended to help lift millions of Indonesians out of poverty and cut them in on the spoils of the global palm oil boom, but has instead been plagued by allegations of exploitation and illegality. They identified 13 companies, including this one, that have sourced palm oil from producers alleged to have withheld plasma (a portion of large-scale plantations to be shared with local communities), or the profits from plasma, from Indonesian communities over the past eight years. The losses suffered across Indonesia by communities owed plasma could stretch into the hundreds of millions of dollars each year. Protests by local tribes over plasma are violently suppressed by Indonesian authorities.

The Green Supply Chain Corporate Information Transparency Index (CITI) evaluates consumer-facing companies that have a sizeable supply chain in China. The evaluation uses government supervision data and public information to assess the environmental management of their supply chains in China. This company received a score of 9.44/100 (retrieved 24 Nov 2023).

In August 2024 this company announced it would file for bankruptcy in face of 200 lawsuits linking its talc products to cancer. Avon uses talc, a mineral that has been linked to cancer, in face powders and eye shadows. Avon paid US$50 million to an Arizona woman in 2022, and US$24.4 million Chicago-area man in 2024, after they were diagnosed with cancer.