OLAPLEX is owned by Henkel (Germany, XETRA: HEN3), which acquired the brand on 7 July 2026 for $1.4 billion.[1][2][3]
This ownership is reported in official statements but has not yet been matched to a regulatory filing.
Evidence: Henkel AG & Co. KGaA Annual Report 2025, 5 March 2026. Last checked .
OLAPLEX sells science-led, high-performance hair care built on the bond-building technology it introduced in 2014, through salons and professional stylists as well as speciality retailers and e-commerce, with sales split between the United States and international markets. Henkel bought it for $2.06 a share in cash, a $1.4 billion transaction, closing on 7 July 2026; OLAPLEX had about €370 million of sales in 2025.
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Henkel controls 13 brands on Brandtree, 5 of them in personal care & beauty.
The 59 brands in shampoo & conditioner on Brandtree belong to 34 owners. The largest is Unilever, with 7; Henkel has 2.
Henkel is a publicly listed company headquartered in Düsseldorf, Germany, founded in 1876. Brandtree records 13 brands under its control, and it is listed as XETRA: HEN3.
Henkel was founded in Aachen in 1876 and is run as a partnership limited by shares with the Henkel family holding a controlling block of ordinary shares. It combines a consumer brands business in laundry, home care and hair with a larger industrial adhesives division.
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 2,570 brands that began in the United States. 501 of them (19%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country, OLAPLEX among them.
Henkel bought all of OLAPLEX Holdings for $2.06 a share in cash, a total transaction value of $1.4 billion, and closed on 7 July 2026, when OLAPLEX shares stopped trading on Nasdaq. The brand had about €370 million of sales in 2025 and joined Henkel Consumer Brands, which Henkel says makes it the second-largest company in professional hair care globally.
The parent company of OLAPLEX is Henkel, a publicly listed company headquartered in Germany.
OLAPLEX originated in the United States, but it is owned today by Henkel, which is headquartered in Germany. So OLAPLEX is an American-origin brand under German ownership.
Henkel completed its acquisition of OLAPLEX on 7 July 2026, after announcing the deal on 26 March 2026. The deal was valued at $1.4 billion.
Yes. As of 16 September 2026, OLAPLEX is still owned by Henkel. 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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