Helena Rubinstein
When she left her home in Poland to live with relatives in Australia, Helena Rubinstein took with her twelve pots of face cream her mother had obtained from a Cracow chemist. She offered them for sale—and the rest is history.
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Jewish Women's Archive. "Helena Rubinstein." (Viewed on November 22, 2025) <https://qa.jwa.org/media/rubinstein-helena-1-small-still-image>.