Alberto-Culver Company engages in the development, manufacture, distribution, and marketing of beauty care, house hold, health care, and hair care products in the United States and internationally. The company offers food and household products, such as salt-free seasoning blends, butter flavored sprinkles, sugar substitute, antistatic spray, and furniture polish; a line of hair and skin care products, including soap and deodorant body powder products, hair care products, shampoo and shower products, and conditioners; and a line of beauty and health care products, such as adhesive bandages, antacids, salt substitute, cotton buds, wet wipes, liquid soaps, antiperspirants and cologne for women, artificial sweetener, detergents, hand and body lotions, facial cleansers, and natural pharmaceuticals. It sells its beauty and health care products through its direct sales force, as well as through independent brokers and licensees; food and household products through retail outlets such as mass merchandisers, supermarkets, drug stores, beauty salons, barber shops, dollar stores, wholesalers, and various stores; and hair care products primarily through brokers to beauty supply outlets and to beauty distributors. Alberto-Culver is based in Melrose Park, Illinois.