Marja Entrich

Marja Entrich founded her skin care brand in Stockholm in 1943. She was born in Latvia, grew up in Stockholm and had now returned home after a couple of decades abroad. She had trained as a beautician at Helena Rubinstein’s famous school in Paris and then worked at some of the best salons in France, Germany and Tel Aviv in Israel. With her, she had a solid professional knowledge and a passion for creating really good skin care.

Marja Entrich with Cidesco’s gold medal
Marja Entrich had noticed that she felt better from a vegetarian diet and this also affected her in her view of skin care products. She meant that what she could not imagine eating she would not have on her skin either. She therefore decided early on that all Marja Entrich products would only contain top-class vegetable ingredients. This at a time when the basis for almost all skin creams was wool grease, lanolin. Marja Entrich was also the first to list ingredients on her products long before it became standard. She was also clear not to test the products on animals. Marja Entrich was also the first with water-soluble cleaning, with pH-balanced products, and with argan oil as an ingredient.

She was an esteemed dermatologist at Marjakliniken on Skeppargatan in Stockholm and became famous for her lymph massage and for the treatment of embarrassing beard growth. Marja Entrich is the only person in the world to have been awarded the Cidesco Gold Medal twice, the Grand Prix Estetique de Cidesco: 1957 for her massage method and 1989 in Athens for her pioneering work in skin and body care. (Cidesco = international organization for dermatologists.)