Payot

Payot — French skincare since 1920. Founded in Paris in 1920 by Dr Nadia Payot, and trusted in Parisian salons for over a century. Her approach was simple: treat skin like a professional, not a passing trend. From the vitamin C-rich My Payot glow range to the Uni Skin CC Cream that adapts to your tone, these are targeted formulas built around real skin concerns — radiance, first wrinkles, protection, detox. Pharmacy-grade French skincare, at boutique prices.

The Payot story

At a time when women were advised not to move and not to laugh, Dr Nadia Payot saw beauty as an act of freedom. Meeting the dancer Anna Pavlova in 1917, she was struck by the contrast between Pavlova's toned, firm body and her face, and concluded that movement is as essential to the skin as exercise is to the body. In the 1920s she published the Physical Culture of the Face and Neck, a method of massage sequences inspired by dance.

That idea lives on in the Payot Method and its signature 42-movement massage, practised in salons, with more than 7 million treatments performed around the world each year. Payot describes itself as the first French facialist brand of its time and works to the principle of one product, one gesture. It creates, develops and manufactures its products in France, in its own laboratory.

Source: Payot's own history, know-how, skin-expertise and commitments pages at payot.com, checked 4 November 2026.