Skin Care Brands History

Brand is a term used inmarketing. Skin care brands are a symbolic realization of complex information connected with one or another skin care product. Skin care brands usually include product name, logotype and other visual elements like prints, symbols and mottos. All skin care brands have their history.

"Procter & Gamble" which is very popular among skin care brands was organized in 1837 by William Procter and James Gamble as a soap and candles manufacture.

NIVEA. Such name had the first skin care cream of this company and it means “snow-white”.

"Faberlic" is also famous among skin care brands. “Faber” is Latin for “maestro”, “lic” is Slavonic for “face”, “image”.

“Mary Kay”. Mary Kay built one of the most successful corporations on her savings ($5000). Now it is one of the most  recognizable skin care brands.

"Dove" means “pigeon” and this bird is the symbol of its brand.

Such skin care brands as “Yves Rosher” and “Estee Lauder” have their founders names.

Very popular among skin care brands is Johnson & Johnson. It was founded by brothers Johnson and in the beginning they produced sterile cloth for operations.

RoC has the first letters of its founders name and surname Roge Cavailles.

Garnier. In 1904 Alfred Garnier created the fist tonic for hair. Today “Garnier” belongs to the most recognizable skin care brands and produces many skin care products. The most popular are aging skin care products.

L'Oreal. In 1907 chemical engineer  Jugin Shuller invented absolutely innocuous hair dye and called it L'Aureale (“halo”) and in 1909 the company got the name “L'Oreal”.

AVON. Its laboratories were founded in England near the river Avon and Shakespeare’s homeland in Stratford-on-Avon. The name of the river is Celtic for “flowing water”.

Skin care brands are more than just advertising or marketing. They are everything that comes to your mind about a product when you see its logotype or just hear its name.