Shiseido has owned Drunk Elephant since November 2019, but no Indian importer is named on any listing we could find. Eleven matched pairs run at 156% to 187%
Sunday Riley’s Indian MRPs sit at 101-104% of its own American list prices, but the prices actually asked on 5 September 2026 were 50-59%. Ownership, the FTC consent
Augustinus Bader runs to ₹1,623.33 a millilitre in India. The professor, the patent and the panel sizes, checked against the registers on 5 September 2026.
The UK company behind The Body Shop is in liquidation; the Indian franchisee is not. What the brand costs here, who imports it, and the one advertising finding
Plum is founder-run, PETA-listed and mostly made in Maharashtra. Its 1% Retinol & Bakuchiol serum lists neither ingredient by name, and its 50 ml niacinamide serum is 27%
Pond’s is now two brands under one name: Hindustan Unilever’s in India, Evermark’s in America. We price the range per gram and report what ponds.in does not publish.
Pilgrim is a Mumbai brand made by contractors in Jammu, Baddi and Parwanoo. We check its Spanish, Korean and French claims against the pack, its sunscreens against what
SUGAR Cosmetics is independent and Mumbai-run, but seven of ten product pages we read declare imports, and the filings show a loss every year on record. The full
The name says Switzerland. The register says Delhi, and nine of eleven product declarations say China. What Swiss Beauty actually is, who makes it, and what it should
Fourteen Indian listings gave Too Faced three different countries of origin, and one mascara declared two. What the brand costs here, who owns it, and what it publishes
Shiseido reaches India through Baccarose, not through its own Indian entity — and at 90% to 113% of Japanese prices, it costs about what it costs in Tokyo.
