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Beauty Imagined: A History of the Global Beauty Industry

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<h4>Oxford University Press, March 2010</h4><h5>By Geoffrey Jones</h5>

From the emergence of the beauty industry in the 19th century, Geoffrey Jones, the Isidor Straus Professor of Business History, traces such beauty bastions as Coty, Estée Lauder, and Avon, and how they made beauty a full-time fascination and business.

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