Stacie Rice

HISTORY ON MAX FACTOR.....

Born Max Faktor in Lodz, Poland during the 1870s, Max Factor is often called the father of modern makeup.

Max Factor - Early Years

With 10 children, the Faktor parents could not afford formal education for their children, so at the age of eight Max was placed in an apprenticeship to a pharmacist. Years of mixing potions for the pharmacy instilled in Max a fascination with cosmetics.

Max Factor's First Shop

Eventually, Max Factor opened his own shop in a suburb of Moscow, selling hand-made rouges, creams, fragrances, and wigs. A traveling theatrical troupe bought and wore Factor's make-up while performing for Russian nobility, and a new door to fame and fortune opened wide for Max. The Russian nobility appointed Factor the official cosmetic expert for the royal family and the Imperial Russian Grand Opera.

1904 World's Fair

In 1904, Max Factor and his family moved to the United States. He had an opportunity in St. Louis at the 1904 World's Fair, to sell his rouges and creams. Max Faktor was now Max Factor, the name given to him at Ellis Island by immigration officials.