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Annemarie Börlind
Annemarie Börlind is a natural-cosmetics maker from Calw in the German Black Forest, where it has developed and produced all its lines since 1959. The company was started by cosmetologist Annemarie Lindner together with Walter Lindner and…



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…



TRESemmé is a hair-care line that began in a Manhattan salon in the late 1940s, taking its name from the stylist Edna L. Emme and the French word for "much-loved." After decades as a salon product, it grew into one of the first…

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,…






