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The best beauty brands from around the world
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In 1976, Jean and Jane Ford, opened a beauty boutique in San Francisco
which epitomised the Benefit Cosmetics style, refreshing, fun style,
creating great products, which move away from the serious, to the
creative, yet provide fantastic solutions to every beauty regime.
Benefit Cosmetics is now available in 25 countries around the world and
winning awards year after year, for the superb product innovations.
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Elemis are a premier UK skin care brand, combining the best
natural products, with leading edge technologies, with a global
customer base.
Elemis is committed to understanding the earth’s natural resources, continuing to
source the latest ground-breaking active ingredients. Nature has a powerful affinity
with the skin and when combined with technology it can achieve everything we need
for phenomenal skincare and anti-ageing results.
Elemis’ unique point of difference is that every product is created for
professional treatments first and foremost. This enables Elemis to gain
feedback from their therapists, the laboratory and independent
professional bodies before launching into the retail arena.
The Elemis range
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Molton Brown opened at 58 South Molton Street in London's Mayfair
as a hair salon, in 1973. The first retail products were hand-mixed
upstairs from nettles and camomile. By the 1980s the salon had evolved
into the Molton Brown emporium where the plant-based make-up, hair,
body, skin and grooming products were
sold to those in the know.
Today the scale is bigger, but the same passion still flows
through the veins of the company and inspires everything they do.
Molton Brown use naturally derived ingredients as much as possible,
sourced from sustainable sources around the world.
Molton Brown aim to look beyond the traditional world of cosmetics, seeking to find new and
unconventional ways to satisfy both physical and emotional needs,
providing a sensory experience that takes the mundane and transforms it
into some extraordinary. Each new product fuses natural
science with the pure flowers, plants and marine extracts.
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Founded by Olivier Baussan in 1976, in Southern France, the first
shop and mail order service started in 1980. Over the past 30 years,
the L'Occitane brand has become established worldwide, exemplifying the
core values of authenticity, simplicity, sensory pleasure and respect
for people and the planet.
L'occitane create natural body, skincare and fragrance products
and all are produced according to strict ethical guidelines, active
ingredients are of plant origin and, as far as possible, derived from
organic agriculture.
Following the principles of phytotherapy and aromatherapy,
L'occitane use no animal
products (except for beehive products: honey, royal jelly and
propolis). The attention to details means they prefer using essential
oils, rather than mineral oils for the face.
On 12th October 2006, which was World Sight Day, the L'Occitane Foundation was
launched and has already been enriched by the donations and actions of
L’Occitane.
The values of authenticity, respect and sensoriality - instilled into
L’Occitane by its founder, Olivier Baussan, in 1976 - lie at the very
heart of the Foundation, which has three missions:
- Support projects to help sensory-impaired individuals
- Support sustainable economic development projects lead by women in poor countries
- Preserve “nature’s knowledge” in Provence.
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Originally called the California Perfume Company when
founder, David McConnell, discovered that the rose oil perfumes he was giving away
were the reason people were buying his books.
The company was named Avon in 1939, after the river that
runs through Stratford-On-Avon in the English Midlands. The
name is a tribute to McConnell's favorite playwright,
William Shakespeare, who hailed from the town.
Women have been selling Avon since 1886 - 34 years before women in the
US won the right to vote! Mrs. P.F.E. Albee of Winchester, New
Hampshire pioneered the company's now-famous direct-selling method, and
her name is still honored today in the company. Avon's sales
Representatives - men and women - now number almost five million,
and Avon products are sold in over 100 countries around the world.
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