CeraVe is owned by L'Oréal (France, EPA: OR), which acquired the brand on 1 March 2017 for $1.3 billion.[1][2] CeraVe was founded in 2005 in the United States and was independent until 2017.
This ownership is reported in official statements but has not yet been matched to a regulatory filing.
Evidence: L'Oréal Universal Registration Document 2025, L'Oréal S.A, 1 March 2026. Last checked .
CeraVe was developed in 2005 with dermatologists around ceramides, the lipids that hold the skin barrier together, and sold cheaply through American drugstores. L'Oréal acquired it from Valeant in 2017 for $1.3 billion and grew it enormously, helped by recommendations from dermatologists on social media.
The USPTO record for the CeraVe mark lists L'OREAL USA S/D, INC. as the owner of record (serial number 78519354). A trademark is often held by a group company rather than the listed parent, so the registrant's name can differ from the owner named above.[3]
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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L'Oréal controls 21 brands on Brandtree, 21 of them in personal care & beauty.
The 42 brands in dermocosmetics & clinical skin care on Brandtree belong to 22 owners. The largest is Ego Pharmaceuticals, with 9; L'Oréal has 4.
| Brand | Owner | Owner based in |
|---|---|---|
| DermAid | Ego Pharmaceuticals | 🇦🇺 Australia |
| Biretix | Cantabria Labs | 🇪🇸 Spain |
| A-Derma | Pierre Fabre | 🇫🇷 France |
| Dermalogica | Unilever | 🇬🇧 United Kingdom |
| Minon | Daiichi Sankyo Healthcare | 🇯🇵 Japan |
| Alastin | Galderma | 🇨🇭 Switzerland |
| A-Solution | Aekyung | 🇰🇷 South Korea |
| Eucerin | Beiersdorf | 🇩🇪 Germany |
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L'Oréal is a publicly listed company headquartered in Clichy, France, founded in 1909. Brandtree records 21 brands under its control, and it is listed as EPA: OR.
L'Oréal was founded in 1909 by chemist Eugène Schueller, who had developed a hair dye. It is the largest cosmetics company in the world and is organised into consumer products, luxe, dermatological beauty and professional products. The Bettencourt Meyers family and Nestlé are its two largest shareholders.
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 2,549 brands that began in the United States. 478 of them (19%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country, CeraVe among them.
L'Oreal acquired CeraVe along with two other skincare brands from Valeant for $1.3 billion in cash. CeraVe had been developed with dermatologists around ceramides and was recommended by them far more than its advertising would explain, which is what made it worth the price.
The parent company of CeraVe is L'Oréal, a publicly listed company headquartered in France.
CeraVe originated in the United States in 2005, but it is owned today by L'Oréal, which is headquartered in France. So CeraVe is an American-origin brand under French ownership.
L'Oréal completed its acquisition of CeraVe on 1 March 2017, after announcing the deal on 10 January 2017. The deal was valued at $1.3 billion (enterprise value).
CeraVe was an independent company from its founding in 2005 until L'Oréal acquired it in 2017.
Yes. As of 28 September 2026, CeraVe is still owned by L'Oréal. The ownership record was last checked against primary sources on that date.
Last verified . Every ownership fact above is backed by one of these primary documents. Numbers in brackets in the text refer to this list.
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