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    Awesome Entrepreneur :Shahnaz Husain

    by Edcatiitd Dec. 3, 2012 2 min read original

    Entrepreneurship actually implies an independence of spirit. It is this independencethat women in India have begun to express over the last two or three decades. That iswhy the percentage of women among the total number of entrepreneurs in India has beensteadily growing.-Shahnaz Husain

    The Shahnaz Husain Group of Companies runs the largest chain of beauty parlors in thecountry. Currently they have over 400 franchisees across the world covering 138countries. The group has around 350 herbal products for skin, hair and body care andmany of her groups products have found their way to leading global stores includingBloomingdales (New York), Seibu (Japan), La Rinaeccente (Milan). Shahnaz was thefirst Asian to enter Galeries Lafayette in Paris in herbal care and the first Asian to befeatured in the 18-foot shop window of the famous Paris store. Hers is the first Indianherbal cosmetic company to have featured in Harods and Selfridges(London).

    Shahnaz Husain

    It was when Shahnaz Husain went to Teheran along with her husband that shedeveloped a keen interest in beauty treatments. She comes from a very royal butconservative Muslim family, grew up in a traditional manner and had to comply withthe then existing strict traditional norms. She was married when she was just 15.

    She has always dreamt of being self-independent. Eventually, she decided to study thecosmetology course. While pursuing her studies, she learnt about the harmful effects ofchemicals on human body. She studied Ayurveda and believed that it is the bestalternative to chemical cosmetics. After leaving Teheran, she went through anextensive training in cosmetic therapy for a long period of 10 years from leadinginstitutions of the West, like Helena Rubinstein, Arnould Taylor, Swarzkopf, ChristineValmy, Lancome and Lean of Copenhagen. She returned to India in the year 1970 andestablished her first beauty salon in her abode with very little capital investment ofaround $1000. Unlike other salons, she did not use chemical cosmetics rather used pure

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    Ayurvedic products that are absolutely safe on the human body. She adopted a totallynew concept of care and cure and her ayurvedic formulations have become abreakthrough in natural beauty treatment.

    She has received several national and international awards, including the WorldsGreatest Woman Entrepreneur Award from Success Group of the U.S.A. She is the firstwoman to be so honoured, in the 107-year history of the Success awards. Among herother awards are the Arch of Europe Gold Star Award for Quality, the Golden AmericaAward and the Indian Government Awards for Export Excellence. She has recentlybeen honoured with two prestigious international awards for Quality Excellence andOutstanding Woman Entrepreneur 2002, by Global Quality Management, in London.

    Shahnaz Husain Group of Companies

    Shahnaz has never been one to rest on her laurels. She has always looked ahead,towards newer challenges, incorporating the latest techniques and introducing uniqueinnovations. Indeed, as head of the largest herbal clinic-chain of its kind in the world,Shahnaz Husain has become a legend in her own lifetime.

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