Your New Guinot Salon Awaits...
With over 50 years of dedicated industry experience, more than 11,000 partner salons including 500 franchise locations across 70 countries Guinot continues to set the standard in professional skincare. Join our rapidly expanding franchise network today!
The Franchise Opportunity
Our premises-based retail franchise offers an exciting opportunity to own and operate a thriving beauty salon. As a Guinot franchisee, your salon will deliver premium services—including facials, body treatments, waxing, and nails—paired with our exclusive Guinot homecare products from a fixed location. With a focus on skincare excellence, this model is designed to drive growth in the facial segment and position your salon as the ultimate destination for clients seeking results-driven beauty.
We offer two opportunities:
| 1. Conception: | Perfect for passionate individuals new to the industry or looking to expand their business portfolio with a premium, results-focused beauty brand. This is the ideal opportunity for an investor. |
| 2. Conversion: | Ideal for existing salon owners ready to elevate their business and stand out from the competition by adopting Guinot’s proven franchise model. This is often a good fit for owner-operators. |
As a franchisee, you are responsible for your salon’s success. Owner-operators must dedicate at least two full days per week to management tasks. If running the salon as an investment, you must employ a qualified manager who has completed the required training and works a minimum of three full days per week.
Ultimately, you remain accountable for the performance of your franchise.
Reasons to Become a Franchisee
With over 50 years of dedicated industry experience, more than 11,000 partner salons including 500 franchise locations across 70 countries Guinot continues to set the standard in professional skincare.
Our successful franchise model provides a proven framework to follow through 5 support pillars:
1: OPERATIONS:
- All treatments and products are manufactured in our ISO accredited laboratories
- Supply of all branded equipment and furniture to deliver an impactful image
- A pilot salon, operations manual and a dedicated operational support team member
- Recruitment support to ensure you have the team to help you achieve success
- Leverage and benefit from access to key industry suppliers and partners
- Benefit from access to a comprehensive marketing toolkit
- Salon social profile set up and content bank access
- Elevated web presence with search optimisation and digital visibility tools
- Access to educational power-ups and strategy sessions from dedicated team members
- Dedicated team members to provide progressive coaching, performance benchmarking, business health checks and KPI management
- Strategic growth planning for multi-site expansion and resales
- Preferential trading terms and exclusive discounts
- Award winning accredited education for your team in our purpose-built training facilities
- Ongoing support in salon support from a dedicated franchise trainer
- Digital training platform and real time education videos
- Global seminars and incentive trips
- Franchise council
- Salon incentive scheme
Franchisee Requirements
As a Parisian skincare brand, we don’t require you to speak French — but we do look for that unmistakable je ne sais quoi, the spark that sets you apart and embodies what it truly means to be a Guinot franchisee
To truly succeed within our network, you’ll need focus, dedication, and the discipline to follow a proven system.
Success ultimately reflects the effort you invest and we’re here to equip you with the brand strength, tools, and support to help you achieve it. While every franchisee brings their own unique strengths, we look for partners who share our values and brand ethos.
Many of our top-performing franchisees are beauty therapists, but this isn’t essential. We’re not seeking beauty experts, we’re seeking driven individuals who are ready to work hard, follow a trusted model, and build something exceptional.
So, ask yourself — are you:
- A skincare enthusiast ready to turn your passion into a thriving business?
- A natural leader committed to your team’s success and dedicated to delivering an exceptional client experience?
- Motivated, coachable, and focused on both personal and professional growth?
- Business-minded, with the discipline to follow a proven structure?
- Ambitious and eager to play an active role within your local community?
The Next Step
If you're ready to take the next step into beauty salon ownership, simply fill out the form below to get in touch directly with a representative from Guinot today.
Once the brand receives your details, the Franchise Team will contact you to arrange a meeting:
Guinot strengthens franchise support with launch of Therapist Passport training initiative
Guinot has strengthened its franchise support offer with the launch of the Therapist Passport, a new training initiative designed to create a clear development pathway for therapists across the franchise network.
Introduced in March 2026, the programme reinforces Guinot’s commitment to helping franchise partners build highly skilled, motivated teams while delivering consistent treatment excellence and an exceptional client experience.
Developed over six months in 2025 by Ahisha Butt, Guinot Franchise Trainer, the initiative was launched across the Guinot franchise network and rolled out to 61 therapists. The Therapist Passport gives franchise businesses a structured framework for tracking development, recognising progress and supporting long-term professional growth within their salon teams.
The programme provides therapists with a clear record of completed training and a flexible pathway for progression, with no fixed completion date. This allows therapists to advance at their own pace while working towards recognised milestone levels. As they progress, they receive rewards including gifting and pins that visibly celebrate their achievement and expertise.
The Therapist Passport is built around three progressive levels of achievement: Red, Silver and Gold.
Red is the first official milestone in a therapist’s journey, recognising the successful completion of initial training and a strong foundation in brand standards. To achieve Red level, therapists complete 10 core courses, six additional courses with a franchise trainer, the Guinot Cancer Care course, achieve five 5-star reviews across two platforms, bank 100 hours of training with a Guinot trainer, and complete an annual audit. Therapists are expected to achieve this level within one to two years.
Silver level recognises therapists who have advanced their expertise and demonstrated a strong commitment to professional growth, client care and service excellence. It reflects deeper knowledge, continued investment in education and a clear passion for delivering high-quality treatments that enhance the client experience. Therapists are likely to achieve Silver within two to three years.
Gold level represents the pinnacle of professional excellence within the Therapist Passport. Typically achieved within three to five years, it recognises exceptional dedication, advanced expertise and a long-term commitment to skincare excellence and client care. Gold level therapists demonstrate technical precision, personalised service and a passion for delivering outstanding facial treatments that drive client satisfaction and results.
‘I created the Therapist Passport to bring structure, motivation and a real sense of achievement to every stage of the journey. It’s all about helping our incredible network track progress, celebrate success, feel recognised and valued, and keep growing with confidence as they develop their skills and careers.” — Ahisha Butt, Franchise Trainer
Guinot Franchise Resale Information
This turnkey premises-based retail franchise, available for immediate purchase, operates from a highly visible shopfront location in Celbridge, a thriving local community with strong commercial appeal.
Operating as the first Irish Guinot Franchise, this salon brings a wealth of heritage, experience, and trusted expertise to clients and the local community. The building comes complete with smoke detectors, CCTV, a security alarm, and a door shutter for business security. The operating business accommodates a staff room and kitchen, 3 operating treatment rooms, alongside a vast retail reception area, digital marketing touchpoints of digital window display, in-salon television for marketing messaging including a full retail catalogue, as well as business operating systems of IT and telephone systems. A lease agreement for the building is in place until September 2026, with an extension of the lease available upon a new franchisee.
This salon operates via 3 purpose built treatment rooms that come stocked and fully furnished with facial, body and waxing equipment, and comes with a team of 2 full-time therapists and 1 part-time therapist, a salon manager, inclusive of the exiting franchisee who can stay within the business 2 days a week to aid in the transfer process.
An existing loyal client base of 1527 active clients, with a 71.90% client retention rate (January-June 2026) and showing as a successfully operating and growing business with an average of 21 new clients per month (January-July 2026), with a 4.9 star ratings respectively on Google.
What's Included?
The purchase of the business includes access to a comprehensive CRM system allowing for client communication and bookings, gift vouchers, and an e-shop link via a brand-affiliated shopping link.
Guinot Franchise salons operate with a network of trusted experts and suppliers, on negotiated terms by Guinot, aiding in business management chosen to give you a competitive advantage; these include but are not limited to:
- Phorest – salon CRM system
- Socio Local – salon social media scheduling and analytics tool
- Salon Services – salon consumables
- Sweet Squared/Shellac CND – approved nail brand
Your Role
As a Guinot Franchisee, you will oversee the growth and development of your salon through supporting your team, monitoring salon performance, and driving local marketing initiatives, ensuring each client experiences a unique experience in a destination for skincare excellence. For over 50 years, Guinot has been dedicated to elevating skincare through science, innovation, and a deep respect for each individual’s unique beauty.
Guinot is trusted by thousands across the world through 11,000 partner salons across 70 countries and via qualified beauty doctors who deliver high-performance treatments and products to each skin type and concern, allowing for each client to have a personalised experience.
As a franchisee, you will have the opportunity to run the business yourself or engage in our investor model and appoint a salon manager. Each opportunity provides full support across 5 pillars of business, operations, marketing, training, and the existing franchise network.
Training & Support
With support from a dedicated Franchise Development Manager who will offer business coaching to maximise profitability, with monthly KPI and performance sessions, quarterly health checks, as well as business and strategy planning visits.
During your first year of franchise, monthly visits with our Franchise Operations Manager for best practice guidance, as well as on-hand support guiding you in a clear roadmap to success and confidence, with template policies, handbooks, contracts, HR support, and an annual operations tune-up.
Following guidance from your dedicated Franchise Marketing Coordinator, you’ll gain access to expert advice, tools, and strategies for client loyalty and increased client spend, as well as educational and local marketing strategy sessions. From a dedicated Franchise Trainer offering ongoing support to nurture and elevate your therapists, with a commitment to continuous learning and confidence, with 2-4 onsite team training sessions, an additional 4 virtual masterclass sessions, and preferential CPD sessions.
Ranked as the 9th best franchise within the Global Guinot Franchise network, this resale opportunity brings to marketing a thriving salon with opportunities for further expansion following a trailblazing 10 years under its original franchisee.
Franchisee Requirements
This resale opportunity is suited for an investor wanting to step into an established franchise business with clear operating procedures that can run via a salon manager, or a therapist who is ready to elevate and stand out from the competition, who wants to step into their own salon, with a proven and backed brand behind you to support while joining a well-experienced and dedicated team.
