Helena Rubinstein’s Legacy of Opportunity

 All Laboratories are Kitchens
“I’m happiest working in my ‘kitchen,” said Helena Rubinstein in 1958 when she was 87 and still active in her business. She set up her kitchen—i.e., a small laboratory—to make her first face cream. “Even to this day I think of our immense laboratories, of all laboratories, as kitchens.”