Kalentin

Kalentin is an Italian professional beauty company based in Azzano San Paolo, in the province of Bergamo, Lombardy. It traces its origins to 1961 [1] and today specialises in lash and brow lamination products sold mainly through professional channels. The business is run as a family limited partnership, and over its history it has shifted from making industrial cosmetic raw materials to finished consumer cosmetics, and then to the lash and brow category that now defines it.

The company remains active and independently owned. It manufactures in-house in Bergamo, holds a 100% Made in Italy certification, and reports distribution across more than ten countries, including a dedicated distributor in Finland.

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Kalentin was founded in 1961 in Azzano San Paolo as a small plant producing cosmetic base materials [1]. According to the company, the name was not the original choice: the founders had intended to register the brand as "Valentin", but the name was judged too close to that of the Valentino fashion house, so the V was swapped for a K to create "Kalentin" [4].

The business operates as Kalentin & Claster SAS di Curnis Luciana & figli, an Italian limited partnership (società in accomandita semplice) registered in Azzano San Paolo [8]. In this structure Luciana Curnis is the named managing partner, together with her sons. The company's own pages and the registries reviewed do not name the specific individual who founded the firm in 1961; the Curnis family is documented as the owning family, but the founding-generation name is not disclosed publicly. A separate Italian producer registry lists Anna Savoia alongside Luciana Curnis as a second contact person for the company [6], which may indicate a co-administrator rather than an owner; she does not appear in the partnership's legal name.

For roughly its first three decades the company made industrial chemical products — raw cosmetic bases supplied to other manufacturers. In the early 1990s it changed direction toward finished cosmetics, adding makeup, skincare and nail products and beginning its consumer-facing identity [4]. In 2013 it launched a lash and brow lamination range, the move that would eventually become its central specialism [4].

A trade editorial describes the company as having operated for more than fifty years as a cosmetics brand with national and international reach [9]. From 2019 onward the brand reported a series of certification milestones, and it lists industry awards in most years between 2022 and 2026.

Kalentin is independently owned and is not part of a larger group. It is held through the family limited partnership Kalentin & Claster SAS di Curnis Luciana & figli, with Luciana Curnis as managing partner alongside her sons [8]. No acquisitions are recorded.

The company presents itself as a heritage Italian manufacturer that has repositioned around sustainability and professional-trade trust. It emphasises full vertical integration — research, formulation and production carried out in its own laboratory in Italy — and frames its work around continuous innovation, describing itself as a brand consistently oriented toward innovation. Its products are aimed primarily at beauticians, lash technicians and brow artists, with a secondary consumer market for at-home lash lift kits. On its Italian site the brand uses the positioning line "Qualità ed esperienza Italiana dal 1961" (Italian quality and experience since 1961), while its UK site describes the range as sustainable lash and brow professional products.

The current catalogue centres on lash and brow lamination, including lash lift and brow lamination kits, eyelash and brow tints, strip lashes and lash extensions. Several extension types are sold under descriptive geometric names such as Brazilian YY, Hawaiian, Greek, English and Italian. The lamination kits are also marketed under a sub-brand, "YOUR DEEP GAZE" [6]. Beyond lashes and brows, the line includes makeup — an eyeshadow palette with more than ninety shades, plus lip and face products — and nail products, among them a TPO-free gel polish.

Among its hero formulations the company highlights a cysteamine-based "Korean" lash lift line, offered as an alternative to thioglycolate chemistry, along with vegan plant-derived formulas, hyaluronic acid and botanical extracts. Two world-first claims anchor the brand's innovation story: the company says its vegan lash lift kit was the first complete kit registered with The Vegan Society, in 2019, and that it produced the first gluten-free lash and brow lamination kit, certified by the Gluten-Free Certification Organization (GFCO) in 2025 [3]. The brand states that its products are vegan, cruelty-free and ophthalmologically tested, and it carries a PETA cruelty-free certification and CPNP registration for EU compliance. Its 100% Made in Italy status is registered under the number IT01.IT/2544.052.V [5].

Sustainability is described as running through the range from the 2013 lash launch onward, with reduced-plastic and paper-based packaging, airless and single-dose dispensing formats, reusable silicone pads, and TPO-free nail polishes.

The company lists a run of industry awards on its sites, including Online Retailer of the Year (2022), Best International Make-Up & Lash Beauty Products Company (2023), several 2025 honours covering vegan and lamination products, and Cosmetics Producers of the Year (2026). It has exhibited at the Cosmoprof trade fair in Bologna and has been profiled by the Italian professional-beauty platform BVM Italia [9]. These accolades are drawn from the brand's own listings and trade sources rather than independent consumer reviews.

Kalentin is active. It operates live Italian, UK and English-language websites and maintains Italian and Finnish social channels, and it reports ongoing certification and award activity through 2026. Distribution reaches more than ten countries via professional channels; within the Nordic region, a dedicated distributor operates in Finland under the name Kalentin Finland, handling imports, sales and training, while no dedicated distributor for Sweden, Norway or Denmark was identified.