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Bioderma
Bioderma is a French skincare label created in 1977 in Aix-en-Provence by pharmacist-biologist Jean-Noël Thorel, who set out to work with the skin's own biology rather than against it. That idea became Ecobiology, the method behind every…
ghd ("good hair day") is a hair-styling brand from Leeds, England, founded in January 2001 after its founders bought the rights to a straightening iron from a South Korean inventor. Its first product, the ghd Styler, made the company a…
Escada is a German fashion and fragrance label that began in Munich in the late 1970s, founded by the former model Margaretha Ley and her husband Wolfgang Ley around the idea of "Sporty Elegance." Its perfume line launched in 1990 and is…
L'Oréal
L'Oréal is a French beauty group founded in 1909 by Eugène Schueller, who started out selling hair dye. Today it is the largest cosmetics company in the world, based in Clichy, Hauts-de-Seine, and organised into consumer, luxury,…