4th Floor Salon limited-edition shampoos

I'm late on the uptake with this and I've left the draft languishing in my drafts for weeks. But it's a cool project and I like Wallpaper's treatment of the intersection between design and beauty with interviews by the four designers (geddit... there's a theme around the number 4). 4th Floor is probably classified as so cool it hurts (although I just find it cool) and is located in an industrial building in Clerkenwell. This project is a collection of limited-edition sleeves designed for their 4 shampoo flavours (Green Tea and Mandarin, Mint and Lime, Fig and Neroli, Rosemary and Eucalyptus) for the salon's 20th birthday. The designers are: Tom Dixon (furniture and lighting Designer), John Pawson (Architect), Sophie Smallhorn (Sculpture) and Brad Lochore (Artist). If you haven't visited the space, it would be worth doing so, even if just for the view. It's all windows and white space above the skyline, quite a change from street-level salons.

Estee Lauder now owns Ojon haircare

To add to their ever-expanding list of brands, Estee Lauder recently bought out Canadian haircare (and Sephora best-seller) company, Ojon.

Other brands owned by Estee Lauder are:
Origins, Prescriptives, Clinique, Creme de la Mer, Darphin, Bobby Brown, Jo Malone, Missoni, Bumble and bumble, Aveda, Kiton, Donna Karan, MAC, Lab Series for Men, Aramis, American Beauty, Good skin, Flirt, Grassroots, Sean John Fragrances, Rodan and Field

L'Oreal brands include:
Kerastase, Matrix, Redken, Garnier, Maybelline, SoftSheen, Kiehl's, Shu Uemura, Ralph Lauren, Vichy, Helena Rubenstein, Giorgio Armani, Cacharel, The Body Shop, Biotherm, Dermablend, La Roche-Posay, SkinCeuticals, Ombrelle

Proctor and Gamble, Johnson and Johnson, Colgate Palmolive, Clorox and Unilever own:
SK-II, Secret, Max Factor, Cover Girl, Clairol, Elizabeth Arden (Unilever), Suave, Dove, Salon Selectives, Sunsilk, Pond's, Aveeno, Clean and Clear, Neutrogenam Purpose, Rembrandt,RoC, Tom's of Maine, Burt's Bees, Pantene, Vaseline, Timotei, Piz Buin, DDF

LVMH own:
Guerlain, Benefit Cosmetics, Fresh, Makeup Forever, Sephora

Now, this isn't to say that you need to be super skeptical simply because only a handful of companies own 99% off the beauty products you see on shelves. But always read the labels and just be knowledgeable about where your products come from. Kiss and Makeup did a similar list in August. Ours is by no means complete, but there are a few additions, like Tom's of Maine, Burt's Bees and Ojon, we're sure come as a bit of a suprise.

Adee Phelan to open salon in Covent Garden

Fashion Monitor reports that Channel 4's Adee Phelan (of The Salon) will open his first solo salon in Covent Garden. His last foray into salons was Bloww (love the Rasul treatment) with Paul Meritt.

Adee Phelan Covent Garden opens 14 November 2007.