Dr Marie Béjot, whose father and grandfather were both doctors, is a nutritionist whose taste for nature and all things natural springs from a childhood spent in Africa with her father, a fervent botanist.

Marie Béjot studied in both Dakar and Paris. From 1978, she specialised in medical aesthetics and opened a surgery where she dealt particularly with overweight and ageing problems of surplus weight and ageing. From then on, she started to work on a concept of beauty through nutrition and developed her first beauty supplements which responded to the needs of her patients.

With the help of her husband she set up a small business to commercialise their beauty complements. In 1985, she founded Oenobiol, and her first product, an omega-3 fatty acid capsule, with hydrating properties, appeared on the market.

In 1989, she developed an innovatory concept: a sun capsule which protected the skin without colouring it, and helped bronzing by activating melanine synthesis. A clinical study has since been published on Oenobiol Solaire, and today it is the leading product on the French market of beauty complements for the sun, and is incontestably the brand’s key product.

The company took off with the launching of Oenobiol Solaire. Dr Marie Béjot could at last bring her know-how to the consumers and help them by providing them with the beauty complements that they had been waiting for and which responded to their needs. Oenobiol’s success is a result of her long-term vision regarding prevention through nutrition.

Oenobiol is for women whose beauty and well-being are affected by inadequate nutrition. Oenobiol innovates by using a synergetic approach: providing permanent information on nutrition allows for judicious choices and the use of efficient and safe beauty complements.

Today, the brand is present in Belgium, Switzerland, Spain, Portugal and Canada.