Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 48. Chapters: Max Factor, List of Procter & Gamble brands, Gillette, Mr. Clean, Braun, Pringles, Ivory, Vidal Sassoon, Clairol, Pampers, CoverGirl, Oral-B, Duracell, Tide, Old Spice, Olay, Rochas, Pepto-Bismol, Iams, Prell, SK-II, Rely, Ariel, Charmin, Nice 'n Easy, Eukanuba, Noxell Corporation, Zest, Crest, Luvs, Crest Whitestrips, Swiffer, Metamucil, Gillette Mach3, Melamine foam, ThermaCare, Pert Plus, Citrus Hill, Head & Shoulders, Febreze, Pantene, Downy, Joy, Dreft, Daz, Fairy, Wella, Swash, The Art of Shaving, Tampax, Puffs, Gleem, Torengos, Downy Ball, Cheer, Dawn, Camay, Always, PUR, Herbal Essences, Safeguard, Gain. Excerpt: Max Factor & Company is a cosmetics company, founded during 1909 by Maximilian Faktorowicz (1877-August 30, 1938), Max Factor, a Polish-Jewish cosmetician. Max Factor & Company was a related, two-family, multi-generational international cosmetics company before its sale in 1973 for $500 million dollars. Presently, the Max Factor name is a popular brand of Procter & Gamble Co., which purchased the company in 1991. After emigrating to the America in 1904 Max Factor moved his family and business to Los Angeles, California, seeing an opportunity to provide made to order wigs and theatrical make-up to the growing film industry. Besides selling his own make-up products he soon became the West Coast distributor of Leichner and Minor, two leading theatrical make-up manufacturers. During the early years of movie-making, greasepaint in stick form, although the accepted make-up for use on the stage, could not be applied thinly enough, nor were the colours appropriate to work satisfactorily on the screen. Factor began experimenting with various compounds in an effort to develop a suitable make-up for the new film medium. By 1914 he had perfected the first cosmetic specifically created for motion picture use - a...