No7
No7 is a British skincare and makeup brand that Boots first launched in 1935, starting with eleven skincare products and adding colour cosmetics in 1937. From the outset it aimed to make polished, science-led beauty affordable for everyday…
Cussons is a British personal-care name owned by PZ Cussons plc, a Manchester-based group quoted on the London Stock Exchange. Its roots run from a trading post founded in Sierra Leone in 1884 to the Cussons soap business started in…
Pantene is a hair-care brand that began in Switzerland in 1945, built around panthenol, a pro-vitamin B5 discovered by Swiss researchers and the source of the brand's name. Procter & Gamble has owned it since 1985, after acquiring…
L'Oréal
L'Oréal is a French personal-care group based in Clichy, near Paris, and one of the largest cosmetics companies in the world. It was founded in 1909 by the chemist Eugène Schueller, who began by selling synthetic hair dyes to Parisian…