6 Best Luxury Skincare Brands in India - High-End Beauty Products for Glowing Skin
Top High-end Beauty Product brands listed here are: Forest Essentials, Kama Ayurveda, L'Occitane, Elizabeth Arden, Dermalogica and Clinique
1. Forest Essentials
- Forest Essentials is a pioneer in the Luxury Ayurvedic segment, today it has become the quintessential Indian Beauty Brand
- The woman who has made this possible is Mira Kulkarni, an Ayurveda aficionado who single-handedly revived Ayurveda, and familarised people with its significance.
- Forest Essentials was founded in the year 2000 with an investment of Rs 2 lakh, and a product range of just handmade soaps and candles.
- Forest Essentials cater to four major categories i.e. Facial Care, Body Care, Hair Care and Wellness category.
- Each handmade product uses traditional methods in its making and adheres to the highest standards of purity, authenticity and quality.
- Kama Ayurveda was started in 2002 in India, to promote the message of authentic Ayurveda, universally.
- Since then, creating pure Ayurvedic products according to authentic prescriptions has been the unique purpose of the brand.
- Vivek Sahni, who co-founded Kama Ayurveda with Rajshree Pathy, Vikram Goyal and Dave Chang.
- Team wanted to take something Indian, which was natural, pure and therapeutic and take this Indian way of beauty to the world.
- Kama products are 100% natural and prepared from organically grown plants and herbs.
- L'Occitane en Provence commonly known as L'Occitane, is an international retailer of body, face, fragrances and home products based in Manosque, France.
- The company was founded in 1976 by Olivier Baussan with the purpose to create a company that celebrates and preserves the traditions of his native Provence.
- The company name means "the Occitan woman
- It all began in the markets of Provence. With nothing but an alembic, a small truck and a solid knowledge of plants
- A 23-year-old named Olivier Baussan began distilling rosemary essential oil to sell locally.
- He expanded his production from oils to soaps to creams, taking inspiration from the land he grew up on to bring natural beauty to homes across the world.
- Elizabeth Arden is recognized worldwide for innovative beauty products, technology driven skin care, trendsetting makeup and distinctive perfumes.
- Elizabeth Arden established the American beauty industry a century ago when she opened the first Red Door salon on Fifth Avenue, New York in 1910.
- Her fundamental belief was that beauty should not be a veneer of makeup, but an intelligent cooperation between science and nature in order to develop a woman's finest natural assets.
- She was the first to introduce eye makeup to the women of America and pioneered the creation of the "makeover.
- Developed the first travel-size beauty products, and was the first in the cosmetics business to train and send out a team of traveling demonstrators and saleswomen.
- Dermalogica is the number one choice of skin care professionals and consumers worldwide.
- Dermalogica story begins in 1986 & founded by Jane Wurwand.
- Jane put her education in action, opening a small classroom in Marina del Rey, California under the name The International Dermal Institute (IDI).
- Today, IDI is considered the international gold-standard for postgraduate skin and body therapy training with 37 locations worldwide.
- Clinique Laboratories, is an American manufacturer of skincare, cosmetics, toiletries and fragrances, usually sold in high end department stores.
- It is a subsidiary of the Estée Lauder Companies.
- It was the first cosmetics brand in the world to have dermatologist-created products, which were both allergy tested and 100% fragrance free.
- Each product is tested 12 times on 600 people, and if even one of those applications incites a reaction they start over.
