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Paul Mitchell
Paul Mitchell is a professional hair care company founded in Hawaii in 1980 by stylist Paul Mitchell and entrepreneur John Paul DeJoria. Run as John Paul Mitchell Systems, it is privately held and family-owned, and is sold largely through…
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…
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…
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,…