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:
Nationwide Expansion and Industry Change: Guinot UK & Ireland Marks a New Chapter
Growth continues as Scotland moves towards stronger beauty industry regulation.
Guinot UK & Ireland is marking a significant moment in its nationwide growth journey, celebrating years of steady investment and expansion that have strengthened the brand’s network of professional skincare salons across the region.
This milestone comes at a pivotal time for the beauty sector in Scotland. The Scottish Government, in its Programme for Government 2025–26: Building The Best Future For Scotland (published on 6 May 2025), announced plans to introduce the Non-Surgical Cosmetic Procedures Bill before May 2026. The bill aims to enhance public safety by ensuring non-surgical cosmetic and lifestyle procedures are delivered in registered premises by providers who meet enforceable professional standards. It also seeks to strengthen enforcement mechanisms, reduce risk, and safeguard clients in a sector that has, until now, been largely unregulated.
Earlier this year, in March 2025, BABTAC (British Association of Beauty Therapy & Cosmetology) hosted an event at the Scottish Parliament in support of its Time Campaign, with Guinot — as proud patrons — offering their support in attendance. The campaign highlights the urgent need for regulation across the wider beauty industry. Currently, there is no legislation preventing individuals with little or no training from presenting themselves as professional therapists. This poses risks not only in advanced aesthetics but also in treatments often perceived as ‘low-risk’, where inadequate training can still result in consumer harm.
The Scottish Government’s forthcoming legislation will focus predominantly on non-surgical cosmetic procedures such as dermal fillers, botulinum toxin, liposuction, weight-loss injections, ablative lasers, and other advanced treatments. While these procedures present the most obvious risks when performed by unqualified individuals, the sector as a whole urgently requires higher standards and accountability to protect consumers and elevate professionalism.
For Guinot, this is about more than expansion. It is about standing alongside industry bodies like BABTAC to drive forward change, ensuring that clients across the UK and Ireland receive safe, professional treatments delivered by fully qualified experts. As regulation takes shape, we are proud to demonstrate what excellence looks like in practice.
As part of this ongoing growth, Guinot has also expanded into Scotland for the first time — a landmark moment that further demonstrates its commitment to making premium skincare accessible nationwide while supporting the industry’s journey toward a more regulated, trusted future, creating destinations for skincare excellence for clients across the country.
The importance of this milestone was recognised at the official opening event, which was attended by Lesley Blair MBE, CEO of BABTAC, alongside the Guinot UK & Ireland team — a reflection of the strong collaboration between the two organisations in championing higher standards across the industry.
“This is more than just regional growth,” added Shelby Myers, Guinot UK and Ireland Franchise Marketing Co-Ordinator. “It marks the next stage of a nationwide journey that strengthens our network, supports the industry’s evolution, and continues to raise standards for professional skincare.
