Please feel free to explore our impressive range of products designed to meet your needs. For a list of products refer to the services catalogue. We stock a full range of Clarins, Max Factor, Innoxa and Australis products.

Clarins:

Clarins is synonymous with serious skin care. Developed from years of professional experience in Clarins Instituts de Beautie.

 

For over 40 years, Clarins Instituts de Beautie have been using the products and massage techniques developed by Jacques Courtin-Clarins. Created to preserve a youthful face, to maintain a firm body and toned bust, these Instituts de Beautie have provided Clarins with a valuable resource to recognize skin care concerns shared by women throughout the world.

This practical experience led to the development of a comprehensive range of Face, Body and Bust treatments. These treatments concentrate on answering the most common beauty concerns.

Clarins' team of dermatologists, biologists and cosmetic science with the many years of Clarins "practical" experience.

All of this has led Clarins to be recognized as today's premier skin care authority in France. Products which were at one time only used in the Clarins Instituts de Beautie are now available for home use in over 110 countries throughout the world.

Clarins: Effective, Serious Skin Care Treatments to Address Specific Beauty Concerns.

  • Effective: Clarins promises no miracles, only effective results, under constant quality control testing. To attain these results, Clarins has selected highly concentrated ingredients, including time-proven natural extracts.

  • Serious: Clarins guarantees the quality of all its products. Each product is submitted to at least 86 control tests before, during and after production, as well as efficiency tests to prove the long-lasting effects. In addition, each product is dermatologically tested.

  • Specific: to encourage direct communication with our customers and to ensure on-going satisfaction. Clarins includes a "Consumer Card" in each product (a practice exclusive to Clarins). This Consumer Card enables you to keep us informed of the results, observations and problems you may encounter. A continuous dialogue between Clarins and our customers is one of the fundamental factors contributing to the total efficiency of Clarins beauty treatments.

Max Factor:

The name Max Factor has become synonymous with beauty and fashion to millions of women in all parts of the world. In 1904, Max Factor resigned his position as make-up artist with the Royal Ballet in czarist Russia to immigrate to the USA.

He opened a small perfume, make-up and hair goods concession at the 1904 St Louis World Fair. Within four years his success enabled him to move to Los Angeles and pursue greater opportunities.

Max Factor & Co was officially founded in 1909 when Max Factor Snr opened his first store in the centre of the city's theatrical district.

As motion picture companies arrived and settled in California, film players naturally turned to the unique Max Factor shop to solve their make-up problems.

Throughout the development of the motion picture industry, the company was instrumental in providing make-up formulae and expertise to the stars and the producers.

he advent of television offered new opportunities for Max Factor, as the company provided make-up specifically created for the new techniques.

1935 marked a milestone in the firm's history with the opening of the unique Max Factor Make-up Salon in Hollywood. Celebrities through the 30's, 40's and 50's came to this salon to seek the specialized service. Today, it is still one of the film capital's most famous landmarks and the home of the Max Factor Museum.

No history of Max Factor would be complete without mention of the countless make-up innovations pioneered by the firm for both on and off the screen. Dating from the first motion picture make-up in 1914, these contributions include:

  • Lip Gloss (1930)
  • Pan-Cake make-up (1937) [forerunner of all modern day cake make-ups]
  • Pan-Stick make-up (1948)
  • Erace (1954) [the original cover-up cosmetic]
  • "Waterproof" make-up (1971)

The company's leadership in educating women in the subtleties of fashion make-up is legendary. When the company was founded, the average woman used little, if any, make-up, as society actually frowned upon it. Over the years, as it became not only acceptable, but necessary and popular, Max Factor became the make-up of not just the stars, but of all women.

Max Factor & Co markets its products worldwide, in more than 120 countries in Europe, Asia and Africa, as well as Canada, Mexico and Australia. Max Factor is now recognized as being one of the largest cosmetic manufacturers selling a full line of cosmetics.

Max Factor make-up provides consumers with:

  • All coverages: sheer, light, medium and full
  • All skin types: normal, oily, dry, sensitive, combination
  • All finishes: dewy/moist, semi-matte, matte

Sadleirs Pharmacy has trained consultants to give helpful hints on how to apply make-up correctly and to suit each individual. They are also trained to advise you about colours and make-ups that will best serve your needs.

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