JSC Faberlic
A 28-year-old Russian cosmetics manufacturer whose catalog prices genuinely undercut named Western drugstore brands, sold through a plan whose sole owner is sanctioned in at least nine jurisdictions and whose US recruiting arm was referred to the FTC in January 2026.
A genuine 28-year-old manufacturer with competitively priced products, sold under a plan whose sole owner and whose corporate entity are separately sanctioned by multiple governments, with no income disclosure ever published and a live, unresolved US earnings-claims referral.
Can you actually make money with Faberlic?
No - and for a reader in the United States, Britain or the European Union the answer arrives before the compensation plan does. The official consultant sign-up page listed twelve countries when it was checked on 1 August 2026, and none of them is yours. No source describes how a Western participant would actually be paid through ordinary banking rails after the 2022 disruption, and faberlic.com publishes its consultant rules and a services contract in Russian, plus a returns page that takes back unused items marked as returnable within 14 days, but no buyback of a consultant’s unsold stock was found in them.
There has never been an income disclosure. The company’s own plan tables state an average yearly income for each rank from Director up, 720,000 RUB at Director, but give no count of who holds each rank, no median and no method, so the figure cannot be checked. What exists beside it is live and unresolved: on 16 January 2026 the industry's self-regulatory body referred Faberlic, LLC to the Federal Trade Commission and the Texas Attorney General over nine unsubstantiated earnings claims, after the company failed to respond to two contact attempts. No FTC or state action has followed, and none should be read into it.
The plan itself starts as ordinary retail trading: a consultant buys at 20% or 26% off catalog price, may not resell below it, and earns a further Volume Discount of 3% to 23% on personal-group turnover. Three things pull against it. The qualification bonuses, which the plan calls one-time payments, run from 80,000 RUB at Director to 80,000,000 RUB at General Partner and are triggered by personal-group volume and, from Senior Director up, by the number of 23% downline groups rather than by any disclosed volume of sales to non-participants. They are paid only under the company’s services contract, which the company suspends when a consultant has not recruited at least five new first-line consultants with 500 points of combined volume over nine periods. And the rates of the Director Bonuses paid on downline Director groups sit on a separate page of the plan that is not among the pages reviewed.
Say what is real, because much of it is. A genuine 28-year-old manufacturer with its own plants, roughly 1,500 employees, a new dietary-supplement facility announced in April 2026, and catalog prices that genuinely undercut named Western drugstore comparators. Registration is free and no mandatory kit fee was found in the official materials. And the sanctions on the founder and on the corporate entity are executive designations in at least nine jurisdictions - not convictions, not charges, and not findings of liability by any court.
no mandatory kit fee or upfront buy-in was found in the official registration materials; a new registrant receives an immediate ~20% discount off catalog price, but holding any tier above the base level requires ongoing Personal and Group Volume purchase activity every catalog period
- An income disclosure, after twenty-eight years. The company states an average yearly income for each rank from Director up but publishes no count of who holds each rank, no median and no method in any market, so nothing anybody says about earning here can be checked from outside the company.
- The Director Bonus rates in a retrievable document. They are the numbers a builder-track participant needs most, they sit on a separate plan page that is not among the pages reviewed, and without them an honest break-even calculation cannot be finished.
- A consultant buyback policy. The rules faberlic.com publishes in Russian cover conduct, sponsorship and a services contract, and its returns page takes back unused items marked as returnable within 14 days, but no buyback of a consultant’s unsold stock was found in them.
- Clarity about the United States operation. Official registration excludes that market outright while salesforce posts recruiting consultants there, cited by the self-regulatory referral, are dated as recently as October 2025, and whether that is corporately authorized is unresolved.
That call is computed, not chosen - the rule reads three of the nine published dimension scores and is printed on the methodology page. It describes this company's plan and the figures it publishes about the people already in it. It is not a prediction about you, and nothing on this site is advice.
Legal status
LEGAL BUT - no court or regulator anywhere has found Faberlic’s compensation plan to be an illegal pyramid, and no criminal conviction, indictment or civil finding of liability exists against the founder or the company in any jurisdiction searched. The file instead contains: US OFAC SDN, EU, UK, Swiss, French and Canadian sanctions designations against founder Alexey Nechaev, an executive measure tied to his 2022 vote as a sitting State Duma member to ratify Russia’s recognition of the Donetsk and Luhansk "people’s republics" - a political act, not a business-conduct finding; separate sanctions designations against the JSC Faberlic entity itself by Ukraine (first captured 5 December 2023) and Poland (25 April 2022), and against two European subsidiaries (Faberlic Baltija, Faberlic Europe); and a Direct Selling Self-Regulatory Council (DSSRC) referral of a US entity, "Faberlic, LLC," to the Federal Trade Commission and the Texas Attorney General on 16 January 2026 over nine unsubstantiated earnings claims, after the company failed to respond to two contact attempts. None of this is a conviction, an indictment, a civil finding, or an FTC action - say so plainly, and say equally plainly that a sanctions designation is not a finding that a business is fraudulent.
Confidence: Medium
Primary sources fetched directly where possible. Everything we could not verify is listed at the bottom of this page by name.
Follow the money
A Moscow-registered cosmetics, perfumery and household-goods manufacturer, founded in 1997 and rebranded Faberlic in 2001, selling through Consultants on a stepped-discount unilevel plan: a 20% or 26% personal discount off catalog price, a Volume Discount of 3% to 23% on personal-group turnover, qualification bonuses at each Director and Partner rank, and a Stability Bonus paid twice a year to Directors who hold their rank.
The manufacturing side is real and should be said first. This is a 28-year-old company with its own production plants, a reported output above 150 million cosmetic items in a recent year, roughly 1,500 corporate staff, and a genuine new capital-expenditure commitment: a roughly 985 million RUB dietary-supplement plant announced in April 2026, independently reported by multiple Russian trade outlets. Confirmed catalog prices for everyday shampoos and a facial serum, converted to US dollars, undercut named Western drugstore equivalents - on a per-100ml basis, Faberlic’s basic shampoo lines were cheaper than every named comparator checked, including a large club-store own-brand. Consumer sentiment on a Russian review platform sits at 4.9 out of 5 across 10,278 ratings, which this report treats as a genuine, if single-source, satisfaction signal rather than an independent audit.
Then the ownership picture. The company’s sole shareholder, Alexey Nechaev, is a sitting Russian State Duma member and the founder of a political party; he is designated on the US OFAC SDN list and by the EU, the UK, Switzerland, France and Canada, on stated grounds that he voted as a legislator to ratify Russia’s February 2022 recognition of the Donetsk and Luhansk "people’s republics" - an executive measure, not a criminal conviction, and not a finding about Faberlic’s products or plan. The JSC Faberlic entity itself, and two European subsidiaries, are separately designated by Ukraine and Poland. In October 2021 Russian business press reported, citing Nechaev’s own account, that he had placed his stake in trust with the company’s brand director under a five-year contract that may be extended; no source reports whether it was extended, and no register document confirming it was located.
No income disclosure statement has ever been published for Faberlic in any market; the plan’s own tables state an average yearly income for each rank from Director up without saying how many people earn it. Set against that silence, a self-regulatory body referred a US entity trading as "Faberlic, LLC" to the FTC and the Texas Attorney General in January 2026 over nine unsubstantiated earnings claims circulating on Facebook, after the company did not respond to two contact attempts - a live, unresolved, non-cooperative posture in the one Western market this report could examine most closely.
And the market-access picture is genuinely ambiguous rather than settled in either direction. Faberlic’s own official registration page lists twelve countries and excludes the US, the UK and every EU state - but a US legal entity and an associated recruiting apparatus using the Faberlic name were active enough, in salesforce posts dated as recently as October 2025, to trigger the referral above. A company can be officially withdrawn from a market’s storefront while still gradeable as live for recruitment purposes in that same market, and that is Faberlic’s current US posture; this report states that tension rather than resolving it.
Where each catalog ruble goes, on the plan’s own figures
No official revenue-allocation breakdown exists. Three shares are computed from sourced figures and the rest is one undivided remainder: the personal discount is the midpoint of the 20% and 26% tiers; the Volume Discount is its 23% ceiling paid at 72 RUB a point (on our reading of the payout point price in the company’s February 2024 announcement) on a 120 RUB catalog point (23% x 72 / 120 = 13.8%); net profit is 4.1 billion of 36 billion RUB of company revenue (11.4%) applied to the 77% of the catalog price the company keeps. Qualification and stability bonuses, cost of goods, logistics, staff, marketing and taxes are not broken out in any source.
| Product | Price | Pays |
|---|---|---|
| Anti-hair-loss shampoo "Black Cumin" #10319 Counts toward Personal/Group Volume points; the consultant captures the applicable ladder discount on the wholesale/catalog spread plus any rank override. |
139 RUB (≈$1.76) per unit |
3–23% ladder discount |
| Honey shampoo "Nutrition" #2920 Same discount mechanism as the rest of the shampoo line. |
139 RUB (≈$1.76) per unit |
3–23% ladder discount |
| Aloe shampoo "Restoration" #2915 Same mechanism. |
139 RUB (≈$1.76) per unit |
3–23% ladder discount |
| Dry shampoo "Volume & Style" #2702 Same mechanism. |
179 RUB (≈$2.27) per unit |
3–23% ladder discount |
| Anti-dandruff shampoo "Mac-Kinley" #2759 On a per-100ml basis this undercuts every named Western drugstore anti-dandruff comparator checked. |
199 RUB (≈$2.52) per unit |
3–23% ladder discount |
| Shampoo "3D-Volume," Expert Hair line #1888 Same mechanism; higher-value SKU within the core shampoo range. |
269 RUB (≈$3.40) per unit |
3–23% ladder discount |
| Active face serum "SMAS-lifting," Expert line #12044 Higher-value SKU generating proportionally more Group Volume points per unit sold. |
749 RUB (≈$9.48) per unit |
3–23% ladder discount |
| Face serum "Against All Wrinkles," One Week Miracle line #0653 The flagship anti-aging serum positioning; priced well below the named premium Western comparator checked, though its premium over Faberlic’s own basic lines is not independently justified by efficacy evidence. |
999 RUB (≈$12.64) per unit |
3–23% ladder discount |
Who runs it, and what they ran before
Built the business from a 1997 start-up into a 28-year manufacturer with its own factories and, as of April 2026, a genuine new capital-expenditure program. No criminal conviction, indictment, fraud judgment or collapsed prior venture could be located against him anywhere. He is separately a sitting Russian State Duma member and the founder of the "New People" party, elected September 2021. He is designated on the US OFAC SDN list and by the EU, UK, Switzerland, France and Canada, on stated grounds that he voted as a legislator to ratify Russia’s recognition of the Donetsk and Luhansk "people’s republics" in February 2022 - an executive/administrative measure, not a judicial finding, and not a finding related to Faberlic’s products, marketing or compensation plan.
Co-founded the business with Nechaev before it was renamed Faberlic in 2001. A 2022 Polish sanctions notice describes Nechaev as sole shareholder at that date; no source located explains when or how any residual Davankov stake was divested. He remains Nechaev’s close political partner, which is relevant context for "who runs it" even though it does not change the ownership finding.
Listed as director of record in the current Russian state registry (EGRUL) extract, cross-referenced against an independent registry aggregator. No adverse regulatory or criminal finding against him was located.
When Nechaev took his Duma seat in September 2021, Russian conflict-of-interest rules required him to divest day-to-day control; multiple Russian outlets reported in October 2021, citing Nechaev’s own account, that he placed his stake in trust management rather than selling it, with the company’s brand director as trustee under a five-year contract that may be extended and that covers voting rights only; no register document confirms it, no source reports whether it was extended, and no source describes what decision rights, if any, Nechaev retains in practice. A reader cannot establish, from any public source, who is actually making operating decisions at the company today.
Registered address
Moscow, Russia
No audited public accounts exist; FY2025 revenue of approximately 36 billion RUB (≈$450 million at 79.038 RUB/USD, the rate dated 26 December 2025) and net profit of approximately 4.1 billion RUB come from a corporate-registry aggregator, not a filed statement, and a separate e-commerce tracker puts 2025 "sales" at only $283 million - a discrepancy this report cannot resolve and states rather than resolves. Sole shareholder Alexey Nechaev placed his stake in trust management in October 2021 after winning a State Duma seat: Forbes Russia, Kommersant and Kompaniya reported, citing his own account, a five-year contract with the company’s brand director, with an option to extend, covering voting rights only and no right to dispose of the stake; no source reports whether it was extended; no register document confirming the trust was located, and no source describes the practical limits on his residual influence.
The veteran's checklist
Eight questions that decide whether this is a business or a transfer mechanism. Same eight, every review.
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Who legally owns it? |
RED
JSC Faberlic, a joint-stock company registered in Moscow whose sole shareholder, Alexey Nechaev, was reported in October 2021 to have placed his stake in a five-year trust contract that may be extended; the trustee and terms are known only from press reports of his own account, and no source reports whether it was extended. No audited public accounts exist.
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| What does it really cost? |
OK
Free registration, with an immediate ~20% new-customer discount; no mandatory kit fee was found. The recurring cost is the personal volume needed to keep the 26% discount and any Volume Discount: 50 points, about 6,000 RUB of catalog orders on the plan’s average point value, every three-week catalog period, plus group volume to hold any tier or Director rank.
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| Published income disclosure? |
RED
No. Searched specifically across every market and not found, in twenty-eight years of operation. The plan tables state an average yearly income for each rank from Director up, but with no count of who earns it, no median and no method.
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| Sanctions or regulatory action against the founder or company? |
CONCERN
The founder is designated by the US OFAC SDN list and the EU, UK, Switzerland, France and Canada over a 2022 legislative ratification vote - an executive measure, not a conviction. The company entity and two EU subsidiaries are separately designated by Ukraine and Poland. No criminal conviction exists anywhere.
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| What happened with the DSSRC/FTC referral? |
CONCERN
A self-regulatory body referred "Faberlic, LLC" to the FTC and the Texas Attorney General on 16 January 2026 over nine unsubstantiated earnings claims, after the company failed to respond twice. No government action has followed as of this writing; the matter is pending.
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| Can a Western participant register and get paid? |
RED
The official registration page lists 12 countries and excludes the US, UK and EU. No source describes how a Western consultant could receive a commission through ordinary banking rails given sanctions-era disruption. Both questions are genuinely unresolved.
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| Can you get your money back? |
RED
A shopper can return unused items marked as returnable within 14 days under the returns page on faberlic.com. No buyback of a consultant’s unsold stock was found in the published rules.
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| Merchant play or miner play? |
WATCH
Closer to merchant than most on this site on the retail side: a consultant earns a 20% or 26% margin reselling at catalog price, and the products are competitively priced against named Western equivalents. The builder side leans toward miner: cash pay for group volume requires the services contract and its five-recruit condition, and the Director Bonus rates on downline Director groups are not among the plan pages reviewed.
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What has to be true for you to get paid
| To cover | You need |
|---|---|
| Hold the base "Consultant" tier for one period | 50 personal points and 100 group points a period, which the plan’s own table values at about 6,000 RUB (≈$76) and 12,000 RUB (≈$152) of catalog orders that earns a Volume Discount of 3% on personal-group turnover, about 360 RUB (≈$4.55) on a 12,000 RUB group, credited as a discount on product unless the consultant signs the services contract; the retail margin at any tier is the 20% or 26% personal discount, about 28 to 36 RUB on a 139 RUB shampoo |
| Qualify as Director, one catalog period | 3,000+ personal-group points and 50 personal points a period, which the plan’s own table values at about 360,000 RUB (≈$4,555) of group catalog orders held in any 8 catalog periods within the past year, unlocking the 23% Volume Discount, less what passes to each lower tier inside the group, plus an 80,000 RUB (≈$1,012) qualification bonus, paid only under the company’s services contract to consultants registered as sole proprietors |
| Reach Gold Director and hold it | three first-line 23% groups of 3,000+ points each, about 360,000 RUB of catalog orders each a period on the plan’s average point value, plus 3,000 points in the personal group for the full bonus (1,000 for a partial one) unlocks a 200,000 RUB (≈$2,530) qualification bonus plus Director Bonuses on the downline groups, whose rates sit on a separate plan page that is not among the pages reviewed - break-even here cannot be finished with confidence while those rates are missing |
| A Western participant: register and get paid at all | a working official registration channel and a working cross-border payout mechanism neither could be confirmed; the official page lists 12 countries and excludes the US, UK and EU, and no source describes how a Western consultant could receive a commission through ordinary banking rails given sanctions-era disruption - effective break-even for this participant class is incalculable, because the preconditions are themselves unverified |
Read this twice
These figures come from the official Russian-language plan pages on faberlic.com. The plan’s own table values a point at an average of 120 RUB of catalog price, and from period 2/24 the company set the point at 90 RUB when buying and 72 RUB when paid out, so every point threshold above is a large sum: 3,000 points is about 360,000 RUB of group orders a period. The qualification bonuses, which the plan calls one-time payments, are paid only under the company’s services contract, which is open to consultants registered as sole proprietors and which the company suspends when a consultant has not recruited at least five new first-line consultants with 500 points of combined volume over nine periods; the company’s own transition example for period 2/24 computes the Director bonus as 80,000 RUB divided over 8 qualifying periods. The rates of the Director Bonuses on downline Director groups sit on a separate plan page that is not among the pages reviewed, and this report treats that gap as material rather than filling it with an assumption. For participants who never reach Director, the entry cost is genuinely low (no kit fee was found) and the realistic margin is the 20% or 26% personal discount: about 28 to 36 RUB on a 139 RUB shampoo. No income disclosure exists to show what fraction of the field ever reaches a tier where the arithmetic turns favorable.
Run your own numbers
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Every figure on this slider is converted from RUB at 79.038 to the dollar, the rate on 26 December 2025, and the plan’s own thresholds are fixed in points and RUB rather than in dollars - so a reader in a hard-currency country should treat the whole calculator as a snapshot rather than as a forecast. The unit is a catalog customer, because retail resale is what this plan pays first: a consultant buys at 20% off catalog price, or 26% after a period with 50 or more personal points, on orders of at least 1,000 RUB, and may not resell below catalog price, so the difference is the income. The $3.91 is that 20% margin on a monthly basket of 1,546 RUB, about $19.56, built from four items in the company’s own catalog; at 26% the same basket returns about $5.09. The Volume Discount of 3% to 23% on personal-group turnover is excluded: it is credited as a discount on product unless the consultant signs the company’s services contract, and it grows with the volume of the whole personal group, downline included, rather than with this consultant’s retail margin. The qualification bonuses, 80,000 RUB at Director and rising with each rank, are excluded for the same reason: they are paid for reaching a rank defined by personal-group volume and, above Director, by the number of 23% groups below the consultant. The cost line is approximate and is not a joining fee, because registration is free. The plan values a point at an average of 120 RUB of catalog price, so the 50 personal points needed for the 26% tier and for any Volume Discount mean about 6,000 RUB (≈$76) of catalog orders each three-week catalog period. The company states an average yearly income for each rank from Director up, 720,000 RUB at Director, but has never published an income disclosure showing how many participants earn what, so nothing on this slider can be calibrated against a company distribution. Your own subscription cost of $20/mo is included.
What it costs to replace this yourself
Faberlic’s own published retail prices, converted at 79.038 RUB/USD (December 2025), against named mainstream Western drugstore and warehouse-club equivalents at real 2026 prices. Comparators are given as bands because formulations and bottle sizes differ.
| What they sell you | What you'd use instead | Your cost |
|---|---|---|
| Anti-dandruff shampoo "Mac-Kinley" - 199 RUB (≈$2.52), ~350–400ml | Head & Shoulders Classic Clean, ~400ml | ≈$6–8 |
| Botanica shampoo, 400ml - 179 RUB (≈$2.27) | Garnier Fructis shampoo, ~370ml | ≈$5–7 |
| Honey/aloe nourishing shampoo - 139 RUB (≈$1.76) | Nivea shampoo range | ≈$4–6 |
| "3D-Volume" volumising shampoo - 269 RUB (≈$3.40) | Pantene Pro-V shampoo, ~375ml | ≈$5–7 |
| Everyday shampoo line, per 400ml equivalent | Kirkland Signature hair-care, club-store multi-pack | ≈$10–15 per pack |
| Active face serum "SMAS-lifting" - 749 RUB (≈$9.48) | CeraVe Skin Renewing Vitamin C Serum, 30ml | ≈$20 |
| Face serum "Against All Wrinkles" - 999 RUB (≈$12.64) | The Ordinary Niacinamide 10% serum, 30ml | ≈$8–18 |
| Basic anti-aging serum positioning | e.l.f. Cosmetics or a major pharmacy-chain private-label facial serum | ≈$10–15 |
| Total as sold ≈1,546 RUB (≈$19.56) for two 139 RUB shampoos, the 269 RUB 3D-Volume shampoo and the 999 RUB Against All Wrinkles serum |
Total, built yourself ≈$28 for the same four-item basket at named Western drugstore prices |
Price-to-value
On this checked basket, Faberlic’s own catalog retail price is genuinely cheaper than the equivalent named Western drugstore basket, and on a strict per-100ml basis its basic shampoo lines undercut every named comparator here, including the club-store own-brand. That is a real, favorable finding and it is not diminished by anything else in this file. Two honest limits belong beside it: the comparison rests on rouble prices converted at a single date and rate, so it is a snapshot rather than a durable measure given rouble volatility; and a Western buyer could not straightforwardly obtain Faberlic product at these prices at all, given the market-access findings above, so the comparison is more theoretical than actionable for that reader. Some of the price gap likely reflects genuine differences in Russian labor and distribution costs rather than Faberlic-specific efficiency, and this file cannot cleanly separate the two effects.
Three operators, five horizons
Probability of cumulative net profit
Hover any point for median, top decile and bottom quartile.
Retail seller
registers free, buys at 20% off and resells about two 1,546 RUB baskets a month at catalog price; builds no group
| Horizon | P(profit) | Median |
|---|---|---|
| 3 mo | 55% | +$23 |
| 6 mo | 55% | +$47 |
| 1 yr | 55% | +$94 |
| 3 yr | 55% | +$282 |
| 5 yr | 55% | +$469 |
Part-time group builder
buys the 50-point personal minimum every period, resells half of it, and holds a 200-point personal group at the 6% Volume Discount
| Horizon | P(profit) | Median |
|---|---|---|
| 3 mo | 25% | −$32 |
| 6 mo | 25% | −$63 |
| 1 yr | 25% | −$126 |
| 3 yr | 25% | −$379 |
| 5 yr | 25% | −$632 |
Director-track builder
full-time; as the part-time builder until month 6, then holds a 600-point Leader group at 9%
| Horizon | P(profit) | Median |
|---|---|---|
| 3 mo | 40% | −$32 |
| 6 mo | 40% | −$63 |
| 1 yr | 52% | +$205 |
| 3 yr | 55% | +$1,279 |
| 5 yr | 55% | +$2,353 |
Methodology note. MODELED: Faberlic has never published an income disclosure statement, so no distribution of actual participant earnings anchors these rows. Each row is arithmetic on the plan’s own figures: a point worth 120 RUB of catalog orders and, on our reading, 72 RUB when the Volume Discount is paid (the payout point price stated in the company’s February 2024 announcement), a personal discount of 20% (26% after a 50-point period) on resale at catalog price, Volume Discount rates of 6% at 200 points, 9% at 600, 15% at 1,500 and 23% at 3,000, an 80,000 RUB Director qualification bonus, a Stability Bonus of 6,600 RUB twice a year at Director on 100 personal points, about 17.3 three-week catalog periods a year, and 79.038 RUB to the dollar. Retail seller: the median resells two 1,546 RUB baskets a month at 20% (618 RUB a month); the top decile resells six at 26% (2,412 RUB a month); the bottom quartile is left holding one unsold basket (1,237 RUB). Part-time group builder: the median buys 50 points a period at 26% off (4,440 RUB), resells half at catalog (3,000 RUB) and earns a 6% Volume Discount of 864 RUB, a net loss of 576 RUB a period; the top decile resells everything and earns 9% (3,888 RUB a period) from the start and 15% (16,200 RUB) from month 3; the bottom quartile resells nothing, a loss of 3,576 RUB a period. Director-track builder: the median matches the part-time builder until month 6, then earns 9% on a 600-point group (3,888 RUB, net 2,448 RUB a period); the top decile resells all personal volume, reaches 15% at month 3 and a 3,000-point group at the 23% ceiling (49,680 RUB a period) at month 6, takes the 80,000 RUB bonus at one year and the Stability Bonus from year two on 100 personal points; the bottom quartile buys 100 points a period (8,880 RUB) and resells none against an 864 RUB Volume Discount. Every Volume Discount figure is the ceiling for a group whose other members earn nothing themselves, and it is credited as a discount on product unless the consultant signs the services contract. Unsold product counts as a loss even when the participant uses it. The share in profit at each horizon (P) is this report’s assumption, set below 50% wherever the median row is negative; no source measures it.
Where you are actually allowed to promote this
Platform policy reads, not verifications. Check every one before you spend a dollar - enforcement changes faster than the written policy does.
Red flags and green flags
Red flags
141The sole shareholder is sanctioned in at least nine jurisdictions
2The company entity itself, and two European subsidiaries, are separately sanctioned
3A live, unresolved US regulatory referral
4No income disclosure statement exists in any market
5Ambiguous, possibly unauthorized US market presence
6Unresolved payment-rail question for Western participants
7"Oxygen cosmetics" marketing borrows real medical science without cosmetic-specific proof
8The founder placed the company into a trust no register document confirms
9The founder’s political party has been reported as Kremlin-organized
10The Director Bonus rates are not among the plan pages reviewed
11Rank-achievement bonuses are tied to downline structure, not verified retail sales
12No confirmed Russian regulatory enforcement record could be found
13EU/UK cosmetic notification status could not be verified either way
14Ongoing volume-maintenance requirements function as a soft, indefinite spend obligation
Green flags
81A real, decades-old, profitable manufacturing business
2Genuine new capital investment
3No mandatory kit fee or large upfront buy-in was found
4Confirmed retail pricing undercuts named Western drugstore equivalents
5No investment, staking or token feature anywhere in the plan
6No conviction or adjudicated wrongdoing finding anywhere
7A genuine historical EU retail footprint
8Real medical science underlies the over-extended marketing claim
We would like to be wrong about this
Upward
- Publication of a dated, market-specific income disclosure statement showing the actual distribution of participant earnings by rank, plus the Director Bonus rates in a public document and a verifiable retail-to-non-participant sales requirement.
- A clear, documented resolution of the DSSRC/FTC/Texas AG referral, and a clear corporate statement on whether "Faberlic, LLC" and the associated US recruiting activity are officially authorized and sanctions-compliant.
- Independent, peer-reviewed clinical evidence specifically validating the "Aquaphtem" cosmetic line’s claimed skin-rejuvenation effect, and a documented record of the trust arrangement and the founder’s actual residual decision rights.
Downward
- Any FTC or Texas Attorney General enforcement action following the pending January 2026 referral, or the JSC Faberlic entity being added to the US SDN List by name.
- Discovery of a mandatory kit fee or an inventory-loading requirement, or a tightening of the services contract’s recruiting condition, which already requires five new first-line consultants with 500 points of combined volume over nine periods.
- Any adjudicated finding - by any court or regulator, anywhere - against the founder or the company on the merits of the compensation plan itself, as opposed to an executive sanctions designation or a pending self-regulatory referral.
Grade is D+. A real 28-year-old manufacturer with genuinely competitive pricing, attached to a sole owner sanctioned in nine-plus jurisdictions, a company entity separately sanctioned by two governments, and no income disclosure ever published.
Two things about this company are genuinely better than a quick read of the sanctions file would suggest. The manufacturing is real: a 28-year-old business with its own factories, reported output above 150 million cosmetic items in a recent year, and a new capital-expenditure commitment - a roughly 985 million RUB dietary-supplement plant announced in April 2026 - that a pure recruitment scheme would have little rational reason to build. And the pricing is real too: confirmed catalog prices for everyday shampoos and a facial serum undercut named Western drugstore equivalents even before any consultant discount is applied, and on a strict per-100ml basis the basic shampoo lines beat every named comparator checked. Consumer sentiment on a Russian review platform sits at 4.9 out of 5 across 10,278 ratings. None of that is manufactured credibility; it describes a company people who buy the product genuinely seem to like.
The ownership picture is where the file turns, and it has to be read precisely rather than flattened into an accusation. The sole shareholder, Alexey Nechaev, is a sitting Russian State Duma member who is designated on the US OFAC SDN list and by the EU, the UK, Switzerland, France and Canada - every stated basis located in this research ties back to his vote as a legislator to ratify Russia’s February 2022 recognition of the Donetsk and Luhansk "people’s republics." That is an executive measure taken over a political act, not a criminal conviction and not a finding about Faberlic’s products, marketing or compensation plan. What makes this more than a personal matter for the founder is that JSC Faberlic itself, and two European subsidiaries, are separately designated by Ukraine and Poland - the company’s own corporate structure is listed, not merely its owner. And the stake was reported in October 2021 to sit in a five-year trust contract that may be extended, known only from press reports of Nechaev’s own account, so a reader genuinely cannot establish who is directing the company today.
Set beside that, the compensation-plan and disclosure picture is the more conventional MLM finding: no income disclosure statement has ever been published for Faberlic, in any market, in twenty-eight years, and the numbers that matter most for a builder-track participant - the Director Bonus rates on downline Director groups - are not among the plan pages reviewed. A self-regulatory body referred a US entity trading under the Faberlic name to the FTC and the Texas Attorney General in January 2026 over nine unsubstantiated earnings claims, after the company did not respond to two contact attempts - a real governance failure in the one Western market this file could examine most closely, and one made worse by the fact that the official corporate registration funnel excludes the US entirely, leaving the relationship between that recruiting operation and the Russian parent unresolved.
Buy the product, skip the plan
If the everyday shampoos and serums genuinely undercut what you would pay for a comparable named Western drugstore product - and the checked pricing here says they do - that is a reason to consider Faberlic as a customer, not as a reason to become a Consultant chasing a discount ladder whose Director Bonus rates are not among the plan pages reviewed.
Get the US authorization question answered in writing before you send anyone a link
The official corporate registration page excludes the US, the UK and the EU. If someone is recruiting you into a "Faberlic USA" opportunity, ask them directly whether that operation is authorized by JSC Faberlic and how, specifically, a US-based participant would be paid - and get the answer in writing before you spend any time on it.
Treat the sanctions file as a compliance question, not a verdict
No conviction exists against the founder or the company anywhere. But a sole owner designated in nine-plus jurisdictions, with the company entity itself separately sanctioned by two governments, is a serious open compliance question for any Western person considering a commercial relationship - get independent legal advice before assuming the answer either way.
Ask for the income disclosure that does not exist
Twenty-eight years of operation and no published distribution of participant earnings, anywhere. Before committing meaningful time to the builder track, ask your prospective sponsor for the Director Bonus rates and any retail-to-non-participant sales requirement; if the answer is vague, that is the answer.
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What we read
Every source below links to the document itself. Tier 1 is a primary record - the company’s own plan, policy or disclosure, a court filing, a regulator’s decision or an SEC filing. Tier 2 is a self-regulatory or secondary regulator record, tier 3 reporting or academic work, tier 4 an open-market price comparison. Where a document can be moved or withdrawn, an archived copy is linked beside it. If a link is dead when you try it, that is a correction we want.
- Rusprofile registry record - АО «Фаберлик», INN 5001026970, OGRN 1025000507399, registered 25 March 1998, General Director Konstantin Sergeyevich Barmashov since 26 May 2021, charter capital RUB 35,562,000
Corporate registry: rusprofile.ru registry aggregator (INN 5001026970, OGRN 1025000507399, founded 25 March 1998, General Director Konstantin Barmashov since 26 May 2021), cross-referenced against checko.ru
Not established by this document: The checko.ru cross-reference page named in the prose was not located; Kontur.Focus and T-Bank counterparty records are supplied as equivalent independent aggregators of the same EGRUL data.
- Kontur.Focus registry record - АО «ФАБЕРЛИК», INN 5001026970, OGRN 1025000507399
- T-Bank counterparty record - АО «ФАБЕРЛИК», INN 5001026970, OGRN 1025000507399, 117403 Moscow, ul. Nikopolskaya 4
T-Bank (Tinkoff) company page, cited for a company-review rating of 4.9/5 across 10,278 ratings that the archived page does not show; currency conversion at 79.038 RUB/USD dated 26 December 2025
Not established by this document: The specific rating panel behind the report's figures (10,278 total ratings at 4.9/5) was not visible in the retrieved page, which surfaces registry and risk data rather than the consumer-review count. No source was retrieved for the RUB/USD conversion rate of 79.038 dated 26 December 2025.
- Interfax-Russia, "«Фаберлик» запустит новое производство за 1 млрд руб. в Ступинском округе" (2 April 2026) - Faberlic Natural Labs, Stupino Kvadrat SEZ, ≥8,500 sq m, RUB 985m investment, completion autumn 2027
Capital-expenditure reporting on the ≈985 million RUB dietary-supplement plant, April 2026, from multiple independent Russian trade outlets
- Vedomosti (press release of the Moscow Region Ministry of Investment, Industry and Science), "«Фаберлик» инвестирует 1 млрд рублей в строительство нового завода по производству БАДов в Подмосковье" (2 April 2026)
- Retail.ru, "Faberlic инвестирует 985 млн рублей в строительство завода БАДов в Подмосковье" (3 April 2026)
- GxP News, "Faberlic займется производством БАД в Подмосковье" (2 April 2026)
- OpenSanctions entity record - Alexey Nechayev (Q107311193): sanctioned, PEP, EU Reg. 269/2014 Annex I item 608, plus UK, Ukraine, Switzerland, Canada, Australia, Japan and New Zealand listings
Sanctions data: OpenSanctions entity records for Alexey Nechaev and for JSC Faberlic, Faberlic Baltija SIA and Faberlic Europe sp. z o.o.; Polish Ministry of Internal Affairs and Administration sanctions notice (25 April 2022) via a Polish cosmetics-trade publication
Not established by this document: The prose dates the Polish notice 25 April 2022; the retrieved MSWiA decision records the ABW application as 22 April 2022 and OpenSanctions records the sanction start date as 26 April 2022. The Polish cosmetics-trade publication that reported the notice was not located and is not needed - the ministry's own decision is cited instead.
- OpenSanctions entity record - FABERLIC EUROPE SP. Z O.O.: Polish MSWiA sanction from 26 April 2022; Latvia FIU listing under Reg. 269/2014 from 17 April 2024
- OpenSanctions entity record - „FABERLIC BALTIJA SIA" Sp. z o.o. Oddział w Polsce / SIA Faberlic Baltija: Polish, Latvian and Lithuanian listings; ownership chain to AO Faberlik
- Decision of the Polish Minister of Internal Affairs and Administration listing FABERLIC EUROPE Sp. z o.o. (KRS 0000824564, NIP 5252815483) under the Act of 13 April 2022, on the application of the Head of the ABW dated 22 April 2022 (PDF)
- Polish MSWiA sanctions-list decisions index - "Decyzje ministra SWiA w sprawie wpisu na listę sankcyjną"
- Forbes.ru, "Лидер новой думской партии Нечаев передал Faberlic в доверительное управление" (5 October 2021) - 99.9% stake placed with brand director Natalia Binat under a five-year trust-management contract
Ownership/trust transfer reporting, October 2021, from multiple Russian business-press outlets
Not established by this document: The identity is press-reported by Forbes, Kommersant and Kompaniya from Nechaev's own account to RBC; no register document confirming the trust was retrieved.
- Kommersant, "Лидер «Новых людей» Нечаев после избрания в Госдуму передал Faberlic в доверительное управление" (5 October 2021) - 99.99% stake, five-year trust contract that may be extended, voting rights only
- Kompaniya (ko.ru), "Лидер партии «Новые люди» передал Faberlic в доверительное управление" (5 October 2021) - voting rights only, no right of disposal or alienation
- DSSRC Case #246-2026: Government Referral – Faberlic, LLC - full case decision (closed 16 January 2026; referred to the FTC and the Texas Attorney General's Office after the company failed to respond)
BBB National Programs Direct Selling Self-Regulatory Council (DSSRC), Case #246-2026, "Government Referral – Faberlic, LLC," referred to the FTC and the Texas Attorney General 16 January 2026
- BBB National Programs press release, "Direct Selling Self-Regulatory Council Refers Faberlic to the FTC and Texas Attorney General Over Unsubstantiated Earnings Claims" (29 January 2026)
- Faberlic official page, "How to register a Representative" - free registration on faberlic.com, differentiated discount of 20% and more, three registration routes
Faberlic’s own official new-consultant registration page (faberlic.com), checked 1 August 2026, and individual product catalog pages for the SKUs priced in this report
Not established by this document: The individual product-catalog pages for the specific SKUs priced in the report were not identified, so no per-SKU URL is given.
- Faberlic official page, "Online registration with Faberlic (link for New Consultants)"
- Faberlic official Registration Rules - minimum age 14, parental consent under 18, Collection Point ID verification
- Faberlic official compensation-plan page, "Leader's Earnings" / «Доходы Лидера и квалификационные бонусы» - 20%/26% personal discount, group Volume Discount ladder to 23%, Director bonuses, Qualification Bonuses, Stability Bonus, Development Bonus, Maternity Bonus
Faberlic’s official Russian-language plan page: 20% or 26% personal discount, Volume Discount of 3% to 23% on personal-group turnover, a point valued at an average of 120 RUB in the plan table, Director qualification in any 8 periods within the past year, and rank tables giving qualification bonuses, Stability Bonus and an average yearly income for each Director rank
Not established by this document: The Director Bonus rates paid on downline Director groups are on a separate plan page («Директорские бонусы», id=287, Itemid=2339) that was not captured; this page gives only the split-by-difference rule inside a Director’s own group.
- Faberlic official announcement, «Увеличение Бонусов по маркетинг-плану в РФ!» - increases to qualification, stability and maternity bonuses from period 2/24, with the transitional calculation rule
- Independent Faberlic informational site, «Маркетинг-план Фаберлик» - discount ladder, Director qualification over 8 of 18 catalog periods, Stability Bonus amounts by rank
- Faberlic Ukraine, «Маркетинговий план Faberlic» - full rank table (Privileged Buyer to General Partner), Volume Discount percentages 0–23%, one-off qualification bonuses and Stability Bonus schedule
- Faberlic official page, «Права и обязанности Консультанта» - consultant rights and obligations: no sales through retail outlets or below catalog prices; consultant is not an employee; no interviews about the company in any media without prior written consent (item 9); negative statements about the company online treated as a gross ethics breach (item 10)
- Faberlic official page, «Договор на оказание услуг» - services contract for consultants at 3% and above registered as sole proprietors; qualification bonus paid only under it; suspended unless 5 first-line newcomers with 500 points in 9 periods; company may terminate on notice
- Faberlic official page, «Как вернуть товар» - 14-day return of unused items marked as returnable (7 days for DENAS devices), defective goods within 30 days
- Положение о программе лояльности АО «ФАБЕРЛИК» «Дифференцированная скидка», edition of 1 October 2025 - 20% discount below 50 points in the previous catalog, 26% at 50 points or more, minimum order 1,000 RUB
- Faberlic official page, «Другие правила и принципы» - the company may change prices without notice (item 6) and may change the marketing plan, rank requirements, Code and Rules (item 7)
What we could not get
- This report’s starting premise - that Faberlic is a Russian cosmetics MLM with a live sanctions and market-access question - was confirmed rather than overturned; what the research added was that the ownership is routed through a trust no register document confirms, that the company entity itself (not just the founder) is separately designated by two governments, and that a self-regulatory referral over US earnings claims was made in January 2026
- Exact, audited FY revenue and profit figures - the primary trade-press article could not be retrieved (a 403 error on fetch); the rouble figures used here come from a registry-aggregator summary, not a filed financial statement
- Register confirmation of the trustee holding Nechaev’s Faberlic stake (press-reported in October 2021 as the company’s brand director under a five-year contract that may be extended), whether that contract was extended,, and the practical extent of his residual influence over operating decisions
- The Director Bonus rates paid on downline Director groups - on a separate page of the company’s plan that is not among the pages reviewed
- Whether "Faberlic, LLC" and its associated US recruiting activity are corporately authorized by JSC Faberlic and sanctions-compliant - no statement from either side resolves this
- CPNP (EU) and SCPN (UK) cosmetic-notification status for any specific Faberlic SKU - neither portal is publicly searchable by brand name, so this could not be checked in either direction, and a notification would in any case not be a safety approval
- The mechanism, if any, by which a Western-based consultant could receive a commission payout given post-2022 disruption to Western-Russian banking rails
- Any Rospotrebnadzor or FAS enforcement history specific to Faberlic in its home Russian market - nothing was found, which this report treats as a search-access limitation, not a confirmed clean record
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This is independent analysis for decision-making, not legal, financial or investment advice. Allegations reported by third parties should be verified against primary court and regulatory records before any decision.
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