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Unilever Considers $1 Billion Bid for Skincare Brand

Drunk Elephant's Slaai Makeup-Melting Butter Cleanser launch in New York.

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Consumer goods giant Unilever is considering a $1 billion offer for U.S. skin-care brand Drunk Elephant, the Sunday Telegraph reported, without saying where it got the information.

Drunk Elephant, founded in 2012 by Texan mother-of-four Tiffany Masterson and which makes skin-care products with natural, nontoxic ingredients, hired investment banks in January to explore a sale, accordingBloomberg Terminal to the Wall Street Journal. Unilever declined to comment on the potential offer to the Sunday Telegraph.