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L’Occitane: handmade hand cream :)

July 20, 2011 |  by  |  Hands, Nails  |   |  No Comments

Last part. First part, second part, third part.

So, here we are, my friends – I’m finishing up my Provence story :)

It might sound surprising but with more than 1800 stores worldwide L’Occitane still supplies all of them with the help of only one factory. A factory located… yes, that’s right…in Provence. The factory grew bigger and bigger according to the company’s needs and is still growing today.

It’s not allowed to take pictures of the inside so here’s the whole factory building.

loccitane plant 2

There wasn’t enough space for all the countries so we were welcomed with two stands :)

For that reason, here you won’t see any huge containers (there’s 5 of them there, the biggest one weighing about a ton), conveyor belts or warehouses with boxes of cosmetics. Instead, you will see a recorded process of making hand cream with our own hands under the supervision of the company’s R&D directors. It was allowed to take pictures inside the laboratory so we took the opportunity. By the way, the ladies who work there create an impression as if they were in an ordinary office with an ordinary coffee-and-gossip working atmosphere, only with strange devices around and white aprons on :)

loccitane plant

I, of course, threw myself at all the jars with my camera – in the picture above someone obviously had been working on the make-up line.

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