Shahnaz Husain

About Shahnaz Husain

Shahnaz Husain is an Indian entrepreneur; she is known for highlighting the Indian Herbal heritage of Ayurveda worldwide. She made a lot of contributions in the field of trade and industry. Currently, Shahnaz Husain is the managing director of Shahnaz Husain Group in India. She received the most prestigious award from the government of India, which is Padma Shri, for her active participation in the field of trade and industry. Shahnaz Husain was born on 5 November 1944 and her family background has been very strong from starting. Shahnaz is the daughter of Justice Nasir Ullah Beg, who was a former Chief Justice of Allahabad High Court. Her mother's name is Sayeeda Beg; she was the daughter of the commander-in-chief of the Hyderabad army. Shahnaz's grandfather was a famous politician who later became the chief justice of the Hyderabad High Court, and her uncle was also a former chief justice of India.

Shahnaz was the student of St. Mary's Convent Inter College, Prayagraj. Shahnaz got married when she was very young; she was married to Nasir Husain, with whom Shahnaz had two children. Nasir was posted in Tehran; meanwhile, Shahnaz studied Ayurveda in Iran. During her studies, Shahnaz completed her training in cosmetology and cosmetic therapy. She got training from the greatest and leading institutions of the world, such as Helena Rubinstein, Christine Valmy, Schwarzkopf, and Lancome. After completion of training, Shahnaz returned to India and started Women's World at her home, New Delhi; even the prime minister of India at that time, Indira Gandhi, frequently visited her place.

In 1999, Shahnaz's husband Nasir died due to cardiac arrest, and in 2008, Shahnaz's son committed suicide; he was a rapper. Shahnaz's daughter, Nelofar Currimbhoy, controls her business now; Nelofar is also an author. She has written "Flame", which is Shahnaz's biography.

Career

Shahnaz adopted the concept of Herbal care and cure. She opened her clinic in 1971, and after some years, she formed the 'Shahnaz Husain Group'. She designed some products which were specifically used for skin care and hair problems. Shahnaz formulated skin care products such as 24 Carat Gold, Diamond, Oxygen, Pearl, Platinum Range, etc.; these are the facial kits that can be used to maintain healthy skin. Shahnaz Husain Group started selling the products online, through which the company gained popularity, and because of the wonderful results, the products got high ratings. Now, the Shahnaz Husain group has around 400 franchises across the world. Her first franchise clinic was opened in 1979 in Calcutta. The first foreign Shahnaz Herbal franchise clinic was set up in London in 1982. The group provides Ayurveda salon and spa treatments for the body, hair, and skin.

Nowadays, the products of the Shahnaz Husain Group are popular worldwide because of the surety that the group provides. The products that the Shahnaz Husain Group designs are mostly based on the concept of Ayurveda, which ensures no side effects. People find the products very useful because of the use of herbal ingredients and so give them priority for their treatment. In such a situation where skin-related problems are increasing day by day, there is a need for herbal products and now people are highly dependent on Ayurveda.

With the increasing annual profit rate and popularity, Shahnaz became India's most successful female entrepreneur. Because of her leading success and talent, she tied up with the government's skill development projects in beauty and wellness. She opened academies in various cities of India. Her beauty academy has trained and certified over 40,000 underprivileged women. She now distributes a lot of tools for home-based startups, which really helps in enhancing the employment rate of women.

Awards

Shahnaz has received many national and international awards. She has contributed a lot to the beauty industry, and she is now famous worldwide for her beauty hacks and different remedies. Shahnaz received her first award in 1985, the Outstanding Woman Entrepreneur award from FICCI. It was a National award. Then, in 1996, Shahnaz won an international award called the "World's Greatest Entrepreneur" award. Shahnaz became the first woman in the last 105 years to receive this award.

In 2006, Shahnaz won the national award, 'The Padma Shri Award', which is one of the most prestigious awards in India. Padma Shri is the fourth highest civilian award from the government of India; the active president of India presents it to deserving candidates. In 2009, Shahnaz was awarded the Leonardo da Vinci Diamond Award in Washington DC by the International Biographical Centre. It was an international award as well. In the same year, Shahnaz got a national award from the Indian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ICCI), and she was awarded the Woman of Substance Award.

Then, in 2011, Shahnaz Husain received a National award at the second annual Women in Leadership (WIL); it was the Lifetime Leadership Achievement Award. In 2012, Shahnaz was awarded the international awards called "Outstanding Ayurveda Innovation Award" and "Olympia Asia Award". She was given these awards for outstanding innovation and creations with Ayurveda and plant cosmetics. Shahnaz's experiments for beauty products and remedies with Ayurveda are really very helpful and are being used worldwide. She had uplifted and proven the strength of Ayurveda, one of the important "Veda" in India. She was awarded this prestigious award in London from the Indo-British Business Forum.

Shahnaz received many awards from London, apart from the Outstanding Ayurveda Innovation Award and the Olympic Asia Award. She won the "Golden Peacock Entrepreneurial Leadership Award" in London for her outstanding innovations in Ayurveda.

There are many awards received by Shahnaz in the year 2014 for amazing innovations with Ayurveda. Then, in 2015, Shahnaz got the Entrepreneur India Award from Entrepreneur Media India. In 2017, Shahnaz was awarded a national award called "Woman Super Achiever", which was sponsored by Femina in Mumbai. Another national award that she received in 2017 was the Ayurveda Innovations Award from Suryadatta Group Pune. Shahnaz has received a total of seven national Awards and six international awards; she is one of the most successful women entrepreneurs in India. It is because of the integrity that she has provided in the form of products to her customers that they have spread her name across the world.

Some Facts about Shahnaz Husain

Shahnaz became a successful entrepreneur in India because of her consistency and honesty. Her products are used as medicine for the body problems faced by people. There are some facts about Shahnaz Husain:

"She got married at an early age and became a mother at the age of 16. But she continued her studies after marriage and started her startup in her home after returning to India. Shahnaz decided to invent herbal products when she faced damage to her skin because of chemical treatments and medicines. Then, she realized that there should be some creations with natural products free from any side effects. Shahnaz was the first person to introduce the concept of Ayurveda and herbal product products; the entire journey of her innovations is based on the concepts of Ayurveda. Besides achieving national attention, she got extraordinary acclaim worldwide. Shahnaz Husain is an Indian personality who introduced the world to Ayurveda. She used to say that she invented a 5000-year-old civilization into a Jar, through which she conveyed that Ayurveda is one of the oldest concepts of medicines. She has never smoked in her life, nor drunk alcohol."

Shahnaz Husain is a beautician, and instead of keeping the name of her first startup as a beauty parlor, she advertised her startup as a Herbal clinic. Then, according to the different skin and hair problems, she started inventing different products, and till now, more than 350 herbal products of Shahnaz Husain are available in the market. After the first advertisement of her clinic, Shahnaz never needed to put up a banner outside her clinic. Because of the quality and results of the product, she became popular in a very short period. Shahnaz has spent ten years of her life in cosmetic therapy and cosmetology, which provides her with enormous knowledge. As we discussed, she came across some damage due to chemical treatment, which inspired her to innovate something with natural articles, and Shahnaz got a direction for her career. It's been around 40 years since she embraced the principle of Ayurveda. Her studies and research enhance her knowledge of Ayurveda.

The other major brands of beauty products have always been in her competition, which encouraged her to present her talent in the market. Her beauty products consist of essential ingredients like herbs, essential oils, flowers, fruit extracts, etc. Currently, the Shahnaz Husain Group is established in around 138 countries, and every year, the branches of the Shahnaz Husain Group are increasing.

An Inspiring Journey

Shahnaz Husain is a very socially active personality, and she encourages homemakers to open salons or parlors at home, which helps them a lot in becoming self-employed. There have been many great achievements in her life, and one of those achievements is U.S. President Barack Obama's summit, which was for entrepreneurs, the event held twice a year in 2010. First, it was held in Washington DC, in April, and then in Mumbai in November, when the president visited India. Shahnaz had many ups and downs during her journey of success. She was all alone when her first husband died; he was the love of her life. Then, after she settled down a bit, she lost her son, "Sameer Husain", who died after falling from the third floor in 2008. Shahnaz lost all hope in life after losing her son, and only her daughter supported her the most. Shahnaz, most of the time, conveys that her daughter helped her a lot in the spreading of her business, and she supported her for her second marriage. Now, Shahnaz is married to R.K. Puri, who is her second husband.

Notably, Shahnaz's name is identified as a brand throughout the world, and she is the brand ambassador of her company. Her organization, 'Shahnaz Husain Group', is one of the biggest organizations in the field of the beauty industry. There are various parlors, salons, and clinics of Shahnaz Husain Group present in India and foreign countries.