By then, it had been four years since they met. Rosier took another two years to convince the professor to “take this idea seriously”. They co-founded Bader Group and rolled out two items, The Cream and The Rich Cream, in 2018.
If someone had told us we were going to do a beauty product together, we would have laughed,” says French entrepreneur Charles Rosier, thinking back to when he and Prof Dr Augustinus Bader first met over a decade ago. He was involved in business ventures while the latter was working on stem cell biology and cell technology at Leipzig University in Germany.
Rosier’s interest in medicine — he was helping a French professor on spinal cord injury — and a wound gel Bader used to heal a four-year-old with third-degree burns brought them together. He wondered if they could use the medical-grade Hydrogel to create a skincare product, then use profits from it to finance the scientist’s clinical trials and medical research.
