Laura Mercier
Laura Mercier is a prestige makeup brand established in 1996 and named for the French-born makeup artist Laura Mercier, who built it around a natural, "no-makeup" approach to complexion. The corporate company behind it, founded as Gurwitch…
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…
Diptyque is a Paris fragrance house that grew out of a boutique opened in 1961 by three friends from the worlds of stage design, interior design and painting. Starting with fabrics and decorative objects, it turned to scented candles in…
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…