Max Factor — cosmetics with roots in the Russian Empire
Max Factor (born Maksymilian Faktorowicz) was a Polish-born American cosmetician and businessman who invented modern makeup — developing greasepaint for film actors, the first lip gloss, and the first waterproof mascara — and built the Max Factor cosmetics brand that bore his name. He is often called the father of modern makeup.
Tracing the roots — Zdunska Wola (Pol)
Born in Zdunska Wola (Russian Empire, now Poland) in 1877, Factor trained as a wigmaker and cosmetician in Moscow and Warsaw before emigrating to the United States. His journey from the Russian Empire's Pale of Settlement to Hollywood makeup artist to global cosmetics mogul is one of the great immigrant American stories.
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Zdunska Wola (Pol). At the time, this region lay within the Russian Empire, which spanned from Poland to the Pacific.