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 We all know a lot of cosmetic brands and the run can list at least a dozen. But few who can say where the name of any of them.
1. Cover Girl (CoverGirl)
literally translated as "cover girl of the magazine." Brand was founded in 1960.
2. Shiseido
: Name brand cosmetics portrayed two characters: Shea and necks - they are taken from the Chinese "Book of Changes". They can be translated as: "Honor the land forces, because it feeds and develops life." There are other options for the transfer title: "House of happiness", "a thousand wishes of happiness" ...
3. Oriflame
translated from Latin as "golden flame".
4. Lancaster
: Cosmetics brand founded after the Second World War, the French businessman Georges Wurz and Italian chemist Eugène Frezatti. This name is taken after heavy bombers Lancaster, on which the British Royal Air Force liberated France from the Nazis.
5. AVON
: The story goes that he came to England, David McConnell (founder) was in Stratford-upon-Avon (Stratford on Avon), the hometown of William Shakespeare. After a visit to England, the area around the laboratory "Suffern" to David seemed like a rural landscape surrounding the hometown of Shakespeare. And the name of the river on which the city eventually became the name of the company. Avon translated from Celtic as "flowing water".
6. NIVEA
- So I named the first cream companies from the Latin word "nivius" - "snow-white".
7. Lancome
Arman Ptizhan (the founder of the brand) chose legkoproiznosimoe name similar to the lock Lancosme in central France. Letter "s" replaced with little icon over the letter "o", which should also be associated with France.
8. Faberlic
"Faber" - a Latin word oznachayuee "master", "master", "Maestro". "Lick" - Slav - the "face", "image".
9. L'Oreal
Eugene Schuller, a chemical engineer, in 1907, the year invented a completely harmless hair dye and called it L'Aureale ("Halo").
10. Revlon
- Founded in 1932 by Charles Revson, his brother Joseph and a chemist Charles Lachmann, after which the company is present in the title of the letter «L».
11. Colgate
: William Colgate founded the company in 1806.
12. The Body Shop
Anita Roddick saw the name on the signs in America in this country called the car body repair shops.
13. DOVE
- From English means "dove."
14. Lumene
15. RoC
: The name comes from the initial letters of the name and surname of the owner dermatological laboratory "Roge Cavailles", which was created by cosmetics.
16. Menard
: The company has borrowed its name from Greek mythology. Maenad - the name of the Greek goddess of the charming, companion, the god of fertility and production, fun and heady wine, Dionysus, called Bacchus by the Romans, or Bacchus. The company name was given to the founder and current president of its Daisuke Nonogawa.
17. RIMMEL
: In 1834, on the fashionable street in London Bond Street Rimmel father and son, moved from Paris on the invitation, opened his own perfume shop.
18. PAYOT
Dr. NADIA PAYOT established cosmetic brand for beauty salons.
19. GEHWOL
: German pronunciation of the name translates as "the Healthy Walking".
20. Yves Rosher
Yves Rocher - the name of the founder of the cosmetics brand.
21. ORLY
Jeff Pink (founder) brand named after his wife.
22. Clarins
: Ksmeticheskaya brand has grown from a small family business family Courtin-Clarins. Jacques Courtin-Clarins, the company's founder, used to say the phrase: "Never sell a product - purchase of the client."
23. Guerlain
: Founder - Pierre-François-Pascal Guerlain (Guerlain).
24. Johnson & Johnson (J & J)
: The company founded by brothers Johnson (Johnson). First have it produced sterile clothing for surgeons.
25. Clarins
: Founder of the cosmetics brand Clarins Christian.
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