LONDON – Beauty and wellbeing sales are steaming ahead at Unilever , and drove underlying group sales growth of 3.9 percent to 14.7 billion euros in the third fiscal quarter.

The consumer giant said in a trading update on Thursday that in the the three months to Sept. 30, the beauty and wellbeing division reported underlying sales growth of 5.1 percent to 3.2 billion euros.

Growth in that division was the highest in the group, which saw overall sales at actual exchange fall 3.5 percent year-on-year due to net disposals and currency headwinds.

Among the top performers in the beauty and wellbeing division were Dove hair , Vaseline, Liquid I.V. , Nutrafol, Hourglass and K18, all of which notched double-digit growth.

Prestige beauty, which sits within the division, grew at mid

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