Do you know that …
Estee Lauder owns Aramis, Aveda, Clinique, Bobbi Brown, Bumble & Bumble, Darphin, Prescriptives, M.A.C., Jo Malone, Origins, Ojon, American Beauty, Flirt, Good Skin and Creme de la Mer.
L’oreal owns Maybelline, Lancome, Helena Rubinstein, BioMedic, Vichy, Biotherm, La Roche Posay, Redken, Skinceuticals, Garnier, Keratase, Kiehl’s, Shu Uemura and Giorgio Armani.
Proctor & Gamble owns Cover Girl, Max Factor, Olay, Clairol, Ivory, Noxzema, Pantene and SK-II.
Johnson & Johnson owns Neutrogena, Aveeno, Clean & Clear, RoC and Lubriderm.
Interesting, eh? Makes you wonder why there’s such a huge difference in prices when it comes to the high-end and drugstore brands owned by the same company. It’s marketing, people. Really good and expensive marketing.
Source: The Beauty Bible by Paula Begoun
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I worked in an Executive Search firm and I learned about those the hard way! I got surprised most of the times, great of you for sharing this!
great info! since I circulate the beauty industry I’ve worked for some of the brands. and Gio (beautifulwithbrains) had a post about this too. I’m not sure if it’s the same internationally but RMK, La Prairie, Stila, YSL and some others are under Lux. And Dior is under LVMH. Makeup Forever, Guerlain and Benefit too under LVH last time but I’m not sure about now. Clarins and Loccitane under the same company.
Whee! Yeap I knew about some of it
But honestly I’d me more interested in EL, and the companies Connie above me had to share 
This is great! Thanks:) I’m gonna post this by my computer.
You’re right, it is amazing how prices can vary although the product it is exactly the same!
do u think they OEM the products? hehe
Please beware when buying from Strawberrynet.com I bought a lipstick at £21. I had to collect if from RM and pay £11.15! When I complianed to Strawberry they said they woudl refund. They still havent done this!!
Did you know that Burt’s Bees is owned by Clorox? Natural skin care made by a chemical company? Not cool.
Beware Questionable genuineness of Strawberry.net’s Cosmedix products – I bought and used a product I know well and it was not the ‘real thing’. Strawberry.net is a large Asian cosmetics supplier, owned by Sa Sa International Holdings. They refunded and claimed Asian products sometimes different … Cosmedix did not respond to my query on this, but if it is so, why not say that on the website. Leaves one to wonder which products, and how different they are. I would not use Strawberry.net again.
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