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The Avon lady has had her foot in the door in the UK since 1959, making the country one of the largest direct-selling markets for parent Avon Products. Avon has become one of the top handful of beauty brands in the country. Some 160,000 independent sales reps sell cosmetics directly to customers at home parties and work get-togethers. The company's catalog is distributed every three weeks to nearly 8 million potential customers. Avon Cosmetics' distribution center, located in Corby, processes about 10,000 orders daily. The company banned animal-testing of its products in 1989. To spur sales, the company has enlisted the help of industry professionals.

"Avon calling" -- calling for a younger crowd, overseas reps, and improved global operational efficiencies. Avon Products, the world's largest direct seller of cosmetics and beauty-related items, is busy building a global brand and enticing customers younger than its typical middle-aged buyers. Direct selling remains the firm's "modus operandi", but sales also come from catalogs and a Web site. Its products include cosmetics, fragrances, toiletries, jewelry, apparel, home furnishings, and more. Avon boasts about 5.8 million independent representatives. With sales operations and distribution in some 110 countries and territories, the firm has expanded on a multiyear turnaround plan launched in late 2005.

With a team of highly recognized American doctors and industry leaders in Pharmaceutical marketing and manufacturing, avVaa World Health Care Products is poised to globally market, manufacture and distribute a range of over-the-counter therapeutic skin care products to provide relief from the symptoms and reduce recurrences of specific skin disorders including psoriasis, dermatitis, and acne.The Company’s confidence in the effectiveness and safety of these proven products is founded in extensive data including European clinical trials and evaluation and research spanning over a decade. avVaa ‘s major goal is to provide a better quality of life for global customers by relieving the severe and underlying pain caused by skin disorders, developing products with high customer need and large patient populations, while at the same time generating substantial returns for investors.

Babor wants to treat its customers' skin to some of its products. Babor Cosmetics America Corporation makes systems for skin care treatments at home or in salons. The company offers face care products (including make up and moisturizers), as well as body care and sun care lines. It covers the men's market, too. Babor for Men includes men's skin care products (moisturizer, balancer, shaving gel, after shave balm, after shave, all-over shampoo, and deodorant spray) and fragrances. Babor Cosmetics has operations or representation in more than 50 countries. The first Babor product was HY-OL, a hydrophilic face cleansing oil patented in 1955 by namesake Dr. Michael Babor.

Bare Escentuals company, which rolled out its bareMinerals makeup brand in 1976 along with its first retail store, develops, markets, and sells natural cosmetics, skin care, and body care items. Brand names include bareMinerals, Buxom, md formulations, RareMinerals, and its namesake line. Bare Escentuals sells its products in the US through about 100 company-owned shops, 800 beauty product retailers, and 1,500 spas and salons. It also has distributors in Canada, Japan, and the UK, among other European countries. Formerly STB Beauty, the company changed its name to Bare Escentuals in 2006.

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