Cosmetics in South Africa

Union Swiss

Union Swiss (Pty) Ltd Union Swiss researches, develops and manufactures skincare products under the Bio‑Oil®, Bi‑Oil® and Bioil® brands. The company was started in 1954 to import Swiss skincare products into the Union of South Africa. It later began researching and developing its own skincare products and in under new ownership, was expanded from a local skincare company to a multinational organisation, which today has a presence worldwide. Union Swiss focuses exclusively on research, development and manufacture, with the distribution and selling of its products licensed to a leading local skincare company in each country. Head office: 66 Long Street, Cape Town South Africa, 8001 Laboratory: 94 Armstrong Ave, Durban South Africa, 4019 Factory: 8 Middel Road, Johannesburg South Africa, 1459

51 to 200 staff

Avon Justine

Bookseller David H. McConnell founded Avon in 1886, 34 years before women in the U.S. had the right to vote. For more than 135 years, Avon has been empowering women around the world through its Representative earnings opportunity. Today, Avon is an iconic global beauty company with breakthrough beauty products in skincare, color cosmetics, fragrance and personal care, and has a Fashion & Home category. Avon is also a leader in the direct-selling industry.

501 to 1000 staff

Alchemy Business Development

Alchemy is a Beauty Marketing and Distribution Company. the brainchild of Karen Laubscher, a leader and mentor within the South African Beauty Industry. Alchemy is the process to purify and elevate an object of lesser value to it’s greater and more refined form. It is the transmutation of something common into something of great value – Is it Magic? Science? Or a little bit of both? The Alchemy team brings experience and adds value to the business. The following expertise are significant to Alchemy: sound marketing and commercial principles underpinned by huge passion for the industry and brands. Representing exclusive beauty brands in South Africa: REN Clean Skincare, MONDAY Haircare, Dose & Co, PRAI Beauty, Teaology Skincare, Amanda-Jayne, Gève Skincare, and W7 makeup.

1 to 10 staff

Bling Girl Official

At Bling Girl, we take pleasure in exceeding our clients' expectations. Bling Girl was founded in 2010, and we now have 7 outlets in South Africa. We’re also available online. We’re a cosmetics and beauty business that focuses on offering low-cost, high-quality products. We provide a wide selection of makeup products, including high-quality eyelash extensions available in different sizes and forms. We also supply beauty products such as pigmented eye shadow palettes, vibrant lipstick colors, soft-bristled make-up brush sets. One of our greatest missions is to create an unforgettable and compelling experiences for customers with undisputable results. Bling girl aims to be the obvious choice and the preferred and trusted supplier for high quality and affordable products.

11 to 50 staff

Logica Beauty Supplies

Logica Beauty Supplies is a Cape Town based wholesaler to the Beauty industry. From our small beginnings in the early we have grown and expanded to be one of the largest wholesalers in the industry, servicing the needs of beauty professionals both local and internationally. We aim to provide only the best quality products at the best possible prices, while striving to deliver the best service to all our clients.

1 to 10 staff

Skin Creamery

In a world flooded with information and choice, Skin Creamery exists to simplify skin care, stripping bare your daily routine to the essentials that naturally nourish and nurture the skin. The Skin Creamery ethos is to be kind to the earth, and kind to your skin. The range was founded in 2014, by Hannah Rubin, with a commitment to natural, simple living. Hannah’s childhood in South Africa’s verdant Garden Route region fostered in her a passion for a conscious way of life. Her training exposed her to quality skin care products and top spas, where she learned a deep appreciation for the carefully composed feel and scent of each luxury product; and the way each carried a unique sense of wellbeing or upliftment. Intrigued by these sensory experiences, Hannah studied the composition of products, researching ingredients and their properties. To bring calm and ease to her busy daily routine, Hannah envisioned a beautiful skin care product that could be placed beside the bath or shower – one product for face and body, with an all-over hydrating effect that wouldn’t compromise on quality. Working closely with a specialising chemist, she crafted the Everyday Cream over the course of a year and a half – and the journey that is Skin Creamery had begun. Throughout the years, Hannah has remained committed to using only the finest organic ingredients. This means each component in Skin Creamery products is more gentle on the skin and less likely to cause irritation. Every ingredient is selected for its unique healing qualities and ability to easily penetrate the skin. The Skin Creamery vision is to instill a daily ritual of simple self-care, which translates into a loving appreciation for who you are, just as you are.

1 to 10 staff

Best Lasers Pty Ltd

Best Lasers is the Sole Sub-Sahara African distributor for Alma Lasers, a global developer, manufacturer and provider of laser, light based, radio frequency and ultrasound devices for aesthetic and medical applications. At Best Lasers we provide modular, cost-effective and high performance products that enable medical practitioners to confidently offer safe, effective and profitable aesthetic treatments to their patients.

1 to 10 staff

Annique Independent Consultant

Live Love Beauty with pure Rooibos products proudly South African. My name is Solveig and I am an Independent Annique consultant. Rooibos has many health benefits so live your lovely and beautiful life with Rooibos. Follow me @ https://web.facebook.com/LiveLoveBeautybySolveig to learn more or DM to order!

1 to 10 staff

The Beauty Studio

WELCOME TO THE BEAUTY STUDIO The Beauty Studio is an upmarket, urban sanctuary – a beauty salon, situated in Bryanston, near Sandton in the northern suburbs of Johannesburg. We offer nails, facials, waxing, massages and makeup – all professionally applied by our highly-trained and talented nail technicians and beauty therapists. We also use excellent quality products yet remain competitively priced. We also operate an online shop for customers not able to get to our salon, yet want to buy a wide range of competitively priced top quality beauty and skincare products online. We offer safe & secure shopping using EFT or Payfast, a reputable online payment processing company and offer free pickup at our salon, free delivery if you live within the Sandton or Bryanston area or low-cost delivery if you live elsewhere in Gauteng or South Africa. We’ve created a tranquil, modern and beautiful beauty oasis. Here you can indulge your self-care needs in a sumptuous, luxurious and highly professional salon setting. We offer a wide range of beauty treatments and high-quality, well-known retail beauty products. Our focus is Nails, Facials, Waxing, Massages and Makeup. We’ll also be launching our hair salon within the next month, so watch this space. We have a highly skilled, professional and talented team of nail technicians and beauty therapists who are much loved and part of The Beauty Studio family. All appointments come with safe and secure parking, free Wi-Fi and a child-friendly environment. We also follow strict COVID protocols so you can feel safe. Kathleen is also a co-founder of Mighty Girls, an NGO that focuses on the supply of much needed sanitary towels and mentorship activities to previously disadvantaged young girls across South Africa.

11 to 50 staff

Umgalelo.Africa Ntoksy

OUR PRODUCTS: Tissue Oil Lotion Skin Restore Soap Purifying Soap Toothpaste Immuno Revive Capsules Day cream Night cream Intimate steaming herbs Intimate cleanser

51 to 200 staff

Juniperberry Cosmetics

Juniperberry Cosmetics is a South African manufacturer of waxes supplied into the global personal care and cosmetic industry. Waxes are manufactured by the Fischer-Tropsch process to offer specialty waxes, mechanical exfoliants and premium petrolatums for a multitude of personal care and cosmetic applications.

1 to 10 staff

Skin Republic

Skin Republic is one of the global leading sheet mask brands offering unparalleled speed-to-market innovation and a premium experience at an affordable price point. A complete mask category solution, Skin Republic provides a wardrobe of choice which seeks to surprise and delight the customer. Biodegradable mask + packaging, clinically tested, not tested on animals.

11 to 50 staff

The French Parfumerie

We aim to bring the beauty and sensual allure of the French perfume world to local streets at revolutionary prices while forming meaningful relationships in the process. Le Début De Nous The French Parfumerie’s very first batch of perfume was made in 2016 from the same trusted French ingredients that our customers still love today. Over the past four years, our initial retail footprint of 3 stores has grown to a tremendous network of over 350 stockists and a sizable body of regular individual buyers. The vision that keeps us going is to allow South African perfume-lovers to wear their favourite scents every day of the week. Our true secret ingredient is the people who give our perfume it’s soul – Our team of seven passionate ladies, each of whom are dedicated to the pursuit of the perfect fragrance. Their attention to detail and knowledge of ingredients is what puts our perfume in a league of its own. The French Parfumerie ladies ensure that every bottle sent out is of the highest quality and as beautifully fragrant as the first – it’s what our customers know and love.

1 to 10 staff

Madeup

We are an on-demand makeup & hair service agency.

1 to 10 staff

Modelo Rsa Pty Ltd

MODELO HAIR CARE is a National Supplier of salon professional products, equipment and furniture. Modelo Hair Care manufacturers hair care locally and distributes globally. Modelo Hair Care is extremely proud to present our diversified multi-cultural hair care range that’s sulphate free, paraben free and richly infused with natural oils straight from our African roots. We also have a multicultural rich formulated DELUXE and CLASSIC keratin range.

11 to 50 staff

Nakedcherry Apothecary

In 2011 we decided to bring our own waxing revolution to South Africa, using the latest methods and standards we started NakedCherry Waxing Boutiques that focused on nothing but waxing. With thousands of waxing treatments under our belt and a unique perspective in the industry we created NakedCherry Apothecary with a simple mission, to provide retail and professional wax products that exceed both in performance and in beauty to the best products in the world. All our retail and professional products were born in-boutique, tested to death (ok maybe that's a little dramatic) and designed specifically to keep waxed skin smooth and beautiful. We don't want you to just love our products, we want you to fall in love with them. With stockists all over South Africa finding a waxing salon with Nakedcherry Wax and Retail Products is as easy as pie

11 to 50 staff

Ngwedi Beauty

Ngwedi Beauty is 100% Black-owned and proudly South African. This is where you can get 100% vegan all-natural hand-made hair and skin products, made using the best of what Mother Earth has to offer. All products are free from parabens, mineral oil, silicones, sulfates and other substances that are harmful to the Earth and ourselves.

1 to 10 staff

Prime Africa Holdings Pty Ltd

51 to 200 staff

Cosmefrica

Cosmefrica is where you can shop African cosmetics brands in one place. We’re on a mission to make shopping for your favourite African cosmetic brands easy, reliable, rewarding, and fun. Cosmetika is born out of South Africa and headquartered in Centurion, South Africa.

1 to 10 staff

Fragrance Farmacy

Handmade Cosmetics Fragrance Farmacy was born out of the love for personal care and all the healing benefits Mother Nature has to offer. All our products on offer are formulated from naturally derived ingredients that are cruelty free, skin safe and responsibly sourced. A lot of research, thought and consideration goes into the formulation of each product to ensure it is effective and safe, but still as natural as possible. When a natural derived alternative isn’t available we use skin safe or nature identical synthetics that will still deliver all of the benefits without any of the dangers. None of our products are tested on animals.only willing friends and family. Our products are handmade in small batches to ensure quality and freshness. Handmade Perfumes Fragrance Pharmacy offers handmade perfumes mixed only with the finest quality perfume oils imported from France. Our perfumes are mixed at the highest possible concentration to ensure your scent last all day long. We have an ever expanding list of perfumes on offer and we are always open to suggestions! Fragrance Pharmacy is a registered trademark.

1 to 10 staff

Lulu & Marula

A natural, ethically produced skin and body care collection made in Cape Town, South Africa. Launched in 2014, Lulu & Marula creates conscious, scientifically formulated skin care that works with skin to balance and boost its natural processes. Only pure botanical and plant-derived ingredients are used. All products are formulated without fragrances, parabens, petrochemicals, SLS, silicones or other non skin beneficial ingredients. Indigenous to Southern Africa, Marula oil is at the heart of Lulu & Marula. Chosen for its unique skincare benefits and ties to Southern Africa, Marula Oil is one of the richest natural sources of antioxidants, polyphenols and vitamins C and E. We like to think of caring for our skin as a much needed daily ritual, a chance to slow down and be mindful. Lulu & Marula is not tested on animals, and all our products are endorsed by South Africa’s cruelty-free governing body, Beauty Without Cruelty. We use recyclable and reusable packaging, and our products are sold “naked” to avoid excess packaging.

1 to 10 staff

Maison Niche Essentiel Pty Ltd

Maison Niche Essentiel is currently a company that specialises in Niche perfumery, from perfumes to room diffusers and scented soy candles.

1 to 10 staff

Natural Living Spa And Wellness Center

Capturing the essence of Limpopo’s lush gardens and greenery, the bushveld inspired Spa in Polokwane CBD, is a luxurious, tailored-to-perfection destination for well-being. The city’s leading day spa, bushveld-style urban retreat features 8 state of the art treatment rooms – including a deluxe couple’s suite – all circled around our beautiful outdoor pool area. Choose from a variety of massage, skincare and beauty spa treatments. While waiting for your booked appointments, relax or chat with friends at Natural Living Spa & Wellness Center, Polokwane’s most visited spa lounge, while enjoying drinks and light cuisine in the comfort of this top Limpopo day spa. You’ll be tempted to linger for hours.

1 to 10 staff

Niomi Sa

NIOMI delivers an effective, vitamin boost to your hair and scalp to naturally preserve the integrity and life of your hair. All NIOMI products are proudly vegan, cruelty-free, and South African made and owned.

1 to 10 staff