Clarisonic Skin Cleanser Cracks $40M in Sales on Kudos From Oprah and YouTube Beauty Queen
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Clarisonic Skin Cleanser Cracks $40M in Sales on Kudos From Oprah and YouTube Beauty Queen Xconomy Seattle — The same people who invented Sonicare toothbrushes have another emerging hit on their hands.This time, David Giuliani and his team of scientists and engineers in Bellevue, WA, who make the Clarisonic device have created a sonic-wave powered brush that’s designed to give people a cleaner, healthier-looking face.They say, ‘Oh, yeah, I’ve heard that one before.’ So we need to deliver for them.” The story of Clarisonic began in 2001, a year after Giuliani, a Stanford-trained electrical engineer, became a wealthy man through selling his company, which developed the Sonicare toothbrush, to Dutch consumer-products giant Philips Electronics.Giuliani wouldn’t say how much capital has been invested to date, or who the angels are, other than that a lot of them were the same people who made big returns on the sale of Sonicare, which had 600 employees and $175 million in reported revenues when it was sold in 2000.One is with professional dermatologists, who use the device to clean patients’ skin before they undergo ultraviolet treatments for acne, or spas like Gene Juarez that use it to prep customers for facials, or microdermabrasions.