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Carmex
Carmex is an American lip-care label that began in 1937, when Alfred Woelbing blended a medicated balm in his Wisconsin kitchen and sold it in small opal-glass jars. It is still run by Carma Laboratories, the Woelbing family's company, now…



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…



Sarah Jessica Parker is an American celebrity fragrance line named after the actress, launched in 2005 with its debut scent Lovely. What began as a personal project — inspired by a blend Parker wore herself — became one of the more…

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,…






