Grooming & Skincare

Ustraa promises beard hair 40% faster with no test published. It has the cheapest beard oil of the big three, and the only falling revenue — ₹96.8 crore to ₹73 crore in two years.

Founded in 1996, owned by LVMH, then Falic, then Castanea, and by L’Oréal since 2012 — at a price neither party ever disclosed. What Urban Decay costs in India, and where the premium sits.

Kering owns the Yves Saint Laurent name; L’Oréal bought the beauty business in 2008 and runs it under licence. What that split means for Indian prices, importers and shade counts.

NYX returned to India in November 2025 as a Nykaa exclusive. Its Indian prices run at 86–105% of the brand’s own US list, against sibling Maybelline’s 52–60%.

Marico took Just Herbs to 100% in September 2024 and absorbed the business a year later. What the packs, the prices and the advertising record actually say.

Estée Lauder has held 49% of Forest Essentials since 2020 and agreed in March 2026 to buy the rest, an agreement not announced as completed. We priced 118 listings and read what the brand publishes behind its claims.

Vilvah names itself as manufacturer on eleven of fourteen product pages under cosmetic licence C-1213. We check the licence, the farm claim, the May 2026 advertising ruling and the price per millilitre.

WOW Skin Science belongs to Body Cupid Private Limited of Bengaluru. We read the register, the judgments, the declarations and 23 listings on 5 September 2026, and set out what each of them says.

Juicy Chemistry’s organic certification holds up on the standard owner’s own register — 47 products, all COSMOS ORGANIC, all certified by Ecocert. The premium does not track it evenly.

Nat Habit publishes shelf lives most of this shelf does not, and prices its core range like a mass brand. The gap is what it publishes to back its claim words.

Puig of Barcelona has controlled Kama Ayurveda since September 2022. What the state register says about its manufacturing licence, and what its serums and sunscreen actually cost per millilitre.

Suganda sells named actives at stated percentages and makes no organic, natural or clinical claim on any listing we read. It is also dear per millilitre.

No company called Daughter Earth exists on the Indian register. Eleven of its own packs name five manufacturers and four cosmetic licence numbers.