Rakesh Aggarwal (born 1975[citation needed]), is a Welsh businessman and founder of the internet cosmetics retailer Escentual.com.
His father left Kenya in the 1960s to settle in the UK, and after training as a pharmacist, ran a chemists shop in Cardiff.
[4] Aggarwal grew up in Cardiff and attended The Cathedral School, Llandaff before moving to Malvern College as a boarder.
[1] In 2011, Escentual.com posted sales of more than £10 million and won the Beauty, Perfume & Cosmetics category at the Online Retail Awards.
[12] Alexandra "Binky" Felstead from the augmented reality TV show Made in Chelsea is a beauty ambassador and blogger on behalf of Escentual.com.
[13] Laboratory tests, on foundation, blusher, lipstick and lip gloss that had passed their sell-by date found that they contained dangerous levels of enterococcus faecalis – the bacteria responsible for meningitis and septicaemia.