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…
MartiDerm is a Spanish skincare label born from a Barcelona pharmacy that the pharmacist Josep Martí Tor opened in 1952. Its turning point came in 1989 with a single-dose ampoule pairing proteoglycans and pure vitamin C, sealed in topaz…
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…