RefectoCil

RefectoCil is an Austrian professional brand of eyebrow and eyelash tints, owned and manufactured by the family-led company GW Cosmetics. The tint line was launched in 1942, while its parent company traces its own founding to 1930 [7]. All products are made at the company's headquarters in Leopoldsdorf, near Vienna, and the brand's core business remains colour and styling for brows and lashes, sold both to salons and to consumers.

The brand describes itself as the reliable choice of the world's leading beauty professionals and, on its parent company's about page, is presented as the worldwide market leader for professional brow and lash colour [1][2]. It remains active, exporting to roughly 90 countries and maintaining current product lines and cultural partnerships.

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RefectoCil belongs to GW Cosmetics, a family-run Austrian manufacturer of hair, face and body care products [2]. The dates attached to the name reflect two distinct events. GW Cosmetics gives its own founding year as 1930, a date the brand repeats in its "pioneer since 1930" and "over 95 years" messaging [2]. The RefectoCil eyebrow and eyelash tint line, however, was launched later, in 1942 [7]. The two years are not in dispute so much as they describe different milestones — the company on one hand and the specific tint brand on the other.

The founders of the business are not documented in the sources available for this article, and so are left unstated here rather than guessed.

RefectoCil is one of several brands under GW Cosmetics, alongside the lash-serum brand BeautyLash and the natural-cosmetics line Master Lin [4]. The company also produces cosmetics for private-label clients worldwide. According to the corporate timeline published on the Master Lin site, BeautyLash was added in 2008 and Master Lin was brought under the GW Cosmetics umbrella in 2011 [7].

The group is described as owner-managed and employs around 100 people, about a fifth of them in research, development and quality assurance [7]. A separate account of how the "GW Cosmetics" name itself came to be formed circulates in secondary sources, but those accounts conflict and could not be confirmed from an authoritative page, so they are omitted here.

RefectoCil positions itself as a long-standing professional standard for brow and lash colour, aimed at hairdressers, beauticians and makeup artists. The company sums up its appeal with the German-language tagline "Schönheit und Fülle für Augenbrauen und Wimpern" — beauty and fullness for eyebrows and lashes [1]. Its stated selling points lean on Austrian manufacturing and consistency: every product is labelled "Made in Austria" and produced and filled at the Leopoldsdorf site.

Distribution runs on two tracks. Salon professionals order through a dedicated B2B portal, while home-use products are sold through the brand's online shop. RefectoCil also runs its own training programme, the RefectoCil Academy, and operates Brow + Lash Bar service locations in Vienna and Salzburg.

The brand's core is its Classic Colours range of brow and lash tints, sold in shades from deep black through graphite, blue-black, natural brown and chestnut to a lighter Blonde Brow. Beyond the classic tints, the line has expanded into the Intense Brow[n]s system of base gels, intensifying primers and an activator gel.

RefectoCil also covers the treatments that surround brow and lash colour: Eyelash Lift Kits in Classic and Ultra versions, a Brow Lamination Kit, and a set of professional tools and accessories such as the Browista Toolkit, eye-protection papers and silicone pads. A care and styling range — including a Brow & Lash Booster and various balms and gels — rounds out the assortment, and a consumer-facing sub-line, BeautyLash by RefectoCil, offers products such as a Full Brow Tinting Pen.

Trade press has reported on the brand launching an FDA-compliant brow and lash tint for the US market [8].

All RefectoCil products are manufactured in Austria. The company states that they are produced and filled exclusively at its headquarters in Leopoldsdorf in Lower Austria, and this "Made in Austria" origin is a recurring part of how the brand presents itself [5]. GW Cosmetics maintains its own research and development department at the site.

RefectoCil is active. Its parent company's site was current as of 2026, and the most recent blog activity dates to a company beauty event held in August 2025 around the close of the Salzburg Festival [6]. The brand exports to roughly 90 countries [1] and maintains cultural partnerships in Austria, including an arrangement as the official cosmetics partner of the Vienna State Opera [2].