Elisabeth Sigmund

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Elisabeth Sigmund (born October 25, 1914 in Vienna ; † December 20, 2013 in Albershausen ) was an Austrian cosmetologist and cosmetics entrepreneur who began to create medicinal plant- based skin care products in the 1930s . After the Second World War , she opened her own cosmetic studio in Stockholm . Later she worked with Wala Heilmittel and founded with her recipes what is now known as “Dr. Hauschka Skin Care ”, which was first launched in 1967 under the name“ Healing Cosmetics by Elisabeth Sigmund ”.

Live and act

After studying medicine for two semesters in Vienna, Elisabeth Sigmund began to deal with natural cosmetics. She received her first training at the Viennese cosmetics institute from Helene Pessl. According to Rudolf Steiner's theories , she tried to develop cosmetics based on medicinal plants. She trained herself with old medical reference works from monastery libraries and went to Paris until 1939 to learn the craft of cosmetics production in a cosmetics laboratory. From 1940 to 1944 Elisabeth Sigmund was employed as a nurse in Berlin. In 1945 she moved to Rudolstadt and emigrated to Stockholm with her husband in 1948 after stops in Berlin and Salzburg .

Activity in Sweden

Elisabeth Sigmund in her Stockholm cosmetic studio in 1957

Sigmund built up a fixed range of skin care products, for which she ordered plant essences from Wala . The following principles were important to Elisabeth Sigmund when developing her cosmetic line:

  • The night care should be free of grease so that the skin can breathe freely and excrete metabolic products overnight.
  • She did not divide the skin into skin types. Your cosmetics should stimulate the skin's own regenerative powers for every skin type.
  • For them, skin care was equivalent to therapy and always included the health-care aspect.
  • Your cosmetics should consist exclusively of natural ingredients and in no case contain isolated active ingredients. She always processed whole plant parts. She had adopted this idea from anthroposophy, whose scientific approach played an essential role in the development of her products.

She opened her own cosmetic studio in Stockholm. There she works according to a treatment method that included facial gymnastics according to the Austrian doctor Rudolf Drobil. However, she refused facial massages and worked with Emil Vodder to develop an alternative treatment based on manual lymphatic drainage and using skin stimulation with a brush. A study trip to India brought her into contact with Ayurvedic concepts.

Cooperation with WALA

Elisabeth Sigmund with Rudolf Plantener (left) and Dr. Reinhard Schoppmann in the Wala laboratory in 1964

Rudolf Hauschka , the founder of Wala remedies , won over Elisabeth Sigmund in the early 1960s for the development of a range of cosmetic preparations. In a development phase from 1963 to 1967, Elisabeth Sigmund and employees of the Wala Laboratory developed this new cosmetic based on plant substances from controlled organic and biodynamic cultivation. Sigmund was convinced of the "self-activity of the skin". Cosmetics are not intended to provide the skin with active ingredients, but rather to help it regenerate with plant extracts and oils. In 1967 the new cosmetics line came onto the market under the name "Healing Cosmetics according to Elisabeth Sigmund". It was later renamed “Dr.Hauschka Cosmetics Preparations after Elisabeth Sigmund” and finally “Dr.Hauschka Cosmetics”.

In 1969 Elisabeth Sigmund settled in Eckwälden . She took part in the product expansion, in particular she developed anthroposophically based acne preparations. The formulations of the acne preparations and the face care series from Dr. Hauschka cosmetics go back to Elisabeth Sigmund. In 1971 Elisabeth Sigmund began to train beauticians in her special treatment method, which she had developed and tested in her cosmetic studio in Sweden.

"Dr. Hauschka Cosmetics ”is now available in authorized natural food stores, health food stores, natural cosmetics stores, department stores, perfumeries, pharmacies and from Dr.Hauschka natural cosmeticians. In 2006, the brand, which is exported to more than 30 countries, took second place in the natural cosmetics market. In 2010 sales were just under 101 million euros.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Karl Kossmann: From the idea to reality. Autobiography. Salumed 2007, ISBN 978-3-928914-14-7 .
  2. ↑ Nora von Westphalen: Natural cosmetics from Germany. Goethe Institute.
  3. ^ Susan West Briefly: Awakening Beauty. The Dr. Hauschka Way. Clarkson Potter, 2006, ISBN 1-4000-9743-6 , pp. 98f.
  4. ↑ a b Susanne Tappe, Annette Sabersky: Naturally beautiful. ( Memento of July 9, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) In: Greenpeace magazine. March 2013.
  5. ^ Biography of Elisabeth Sigmund
  6. ↑ Wala. Rhythm is life . In: Öko-Test advice on cosmetics. Issue 13, 2013. Accessed July 11, 2014.
  7. ^ Rudolf Drobil: Facial gymnastics. Maudrich-Verlag, Vienna 1951, OCLC 253439354
  8. ↑ Jutta Blume: From the organic store to the KaDeWe . In: taz. dated April 7, 2007. Retrieved July 11, 2014.
  9. ^ Susan West Briefly: Awakening Beauty: The Dr. Hauschka Way, p. 9.
  10. ↑ Bodo von Plato: Anthroposophy in the 20th Century: A Cultural Impulse in Biographical Portraits . Publishing house at the Goetheanum, 2003, ISBN 3-7235-1199-6 , p. 1046.
  11. ↑ Katrin Kruse: Sustainable and cool. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . March 11, 2007. Retrieved July 11, 2014.
  12. ^ Elisabeth Sigmund: Healing cosmetics according to Elisabeth Sigmund. Wala Medicines Laboratory Dr. R. Hauschka, Eckwälden 1973.
  13. ↑ Nadia Mustafa: Not your average night creme . In Time of April 20, 2006. Retrieved July 11, 2014.
  14. ↑ Florian Langenscheidt (ed.): German Standards - Brands of the Century: The premier class of German products and services in words and images - from Awan Aspirin to Zeiss. 15th edition. Gabler Verlag, 2006, ISBN 3-8349-0436-8 , p. 134.
  15. ↑ Franziska Roemer: Therapy Concepts in Anthroposophic Medicine . Karl F. Haug Verlag, 2014, ISBN 978-3-8304-7708-2 , p. 7.1.
  16. ↑ Official website of the Dr. Hauschka cosmetics
  17. ↑ Official website of Dr. Hauschka cosmetics
  18. ↑ Cosmetics manufacturer. German natural cosmetics for Hollywood , FAZ, November 1, 2006
  19. ↑ Natural cosmetics. Dr. Hauschka: Heal, heal, care. on: Spiegel Online. December 11, 2011.
personal data
SURNAME Sigmund, Elisabeth
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian cosmetologist, co-founder of Dr. Hauschka cosmetics
DATE OF BIRTH October 25, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH 20th December 2013
Place of death Albershausen