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Mauboussin
Mauboussin is a Paris jewellery house dating to 1827, when Mr. Rocher opened a workshop later run by Jean-Baptiste Noury. It took its present name from Georges Mauboussin, a nephew of the Nourys, and the firm was renamed Mauboussin in…



Sassoon is a British hair brand that began with a single London salon opened by Vidal Sassoon in 1954. Through the 1960s and 1970s it became known for precise, geometric cuts — among them the Five Point cut and Mia Farrow's pixie for…



ProfiCare is a German personal-care appliance brand owned by Clatronic International GmbH, a family-run appliance group based in Kempen. Though the parent company traces its roots to 1982, the ProfiCare brand itself debuted at the IFA fair…

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,…






