WOW! These American sex symbols can thank a Hungarian dermatologist for their beauty!

Dr Ernő László gave beauty tips not only for Audrey Hepburn or Marilyn Monroe but also for Jackie Kennedy, who were all sex symbols in the good old 1950s and 1960s.

The Hungarian dermatologist, who is known in the USA as Erno Laszlo, was born in 1897 and died in 1973 in Switzerland. He was the founder of the Erno Laszlo Institute, and his trademarks and luxury products are still used in the beauty industry and cosmetics. 

Though he was born in Nyitrazsámbokrét, he was raised in Budapest where he finished his studies at the Dermatologist Faculty of the Medical University. He was a specialist in skin diseases and worked together with professor Max Joseph, “father of modern dermatology”. During his long career, he experimented a lot to find chemical compounds that can not

only cure the diseases but can also heal the skin blemishes they caused.

In 1920, he successfully healed two famous women, Princess Stéphanie of Belgium, who struggled with acne, and Frida Gombaszögi, a well-known Hungarian actress of the time, who was shot in the face and needed special treatment. This brought him world fame.

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He opened his first cosmetics institute in Budapest in 1927, which was visited by the upper one per cent from all over Europe. In 1937, he visited Hollywood, where he received a job offer from Warner Brothers. He refused to accept it but met many celebrities.