Avon Cosmetics: Inexpensive, and great for your skin

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Avon cosmetics are well known, and good for your skin too.

The Avon company is known not only for quality products, but also for the business opportunities that it gives to women from all walks of life. So many women all over the world have earned decent livings from selling Avon cosmetics to their friends, neighbors and family members. Some of these women have really successful careers selling Avon cosmetics.

Ironically, the first “Avon lady” was actually a man. In the 1880’s a young door-to-door salesman named David McConnell from New York was peddling books and perfumes around the neighborhood. He used perfume samples as his entry point in selling his books at that time.

Soon he discovered that the women to whom he usually tried to sell his books loved his perfumes more than they love his books. In fact, most of his women customers were more interested about buying his sample perfume than buying his books. Sensing that there was a future in selling perfume, McConnell started concocting perfumes himself and tried to peddle these perfumes door-to-door. The response of the women to his perfume was so encouraging that McConnell was convinced that this was the right business for him.

When the company started to grow, McConnell engaged the services of the first real “Avon lady”. Mrs. P.F.E. Albee, a widow, started selling Avon cosmetics door-to-door and was so successful at it that she started recruiting other ladies in her neighborhood to join her. The first team of Avon ladies then started selling Avon cosmetics in different parts of New York and by 1887, there were already twelve Avon ladies peddling different types of fragrances. From that time on, there were no stopping Avon cosmetics from becoming the first company to successfully establish a door-to-door selling business in the United States. Thousands of women were so interested in the business opportunities that Avon had to offer that they literally trooped into the training centers of Avon cosmetics to learn how to sell Avon products. It is not uncommon, even today, to find several women packed inside the training rooms of Avon outlets all over the world.

After more than two centuries of existence, Avon cosmetics remains to be one of the recognized leaders in beauty products and door-to-door selling all over the world. Thousands of women all over the world have benefited from Avon cosmetics. For these women, Avon cosmetics not only make them look beautiful, it also gives them hope of gaining financial independence.