Who owns Wet Ones?
Wet Ones is owned by Edgewell (the United States, NYSE: EPC).[1]
Evidence: Edgewell Personal Care Company Annual Report on Form 10-K filed 2025-11-18, SEC EDGAR, 18 November 2025. Verified from filings; last checked .
Key facts
- Current owner
- Edgewell Personal Care Company verified
- Owner HQ
- 🇺🇸 United States, Shelton, Connecticut
- Origin
- 🇺🇸 United States
- Founded
- 1978
- Category
- Personal care & beauty › Bath, soap & hand care › Hand soap & sanitiser
- Parent ticker
- NYSE: EPC
- Last verified
- · 1 sources
About Wet Ones
Wet Ones are antibacterial hand wipes launched in 1978, sold in canisters and travel packs and positioned for use where soap and water are unavailable. Sales rose sharply during the pandemic and the brand remains among the largest of its kind.
What Edgewell's annual report says about Wet Ones
Sentences about Wet Ones from Edgewell's latest annual filing[1], copied word for word.
We offer Wet Ones antibacterial hand wipes and other related products as the leader in the U.S. portable hand wipes category.
North America Skin Care benefited from higher sales in Wet Ones due to lower volumes in the prior year primarily due to the fire at our Sidney, Ohio manufacturing plant.
How often Edgewell names Wet Ones in its annual report
A plain count of the times the name appears in the text of each annual report, not counting the start of a sentence. A brand that an owner writes about more is usually one it treats as central. The brand is named more often than it was three years earlier.
Ownership timeline of Wet Ones
Where Wet Ones sits in Edgewell
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Other brands owned by Edgewell
Edgewell controls 8 brands on Brandtree, 8 of them in personal care & beauty.
Also in personal care & beauty
- Banana Boat (1979)
- Billie (2017)
- Cremo (2005)
- Hawaiian Tropic (1969)
- Hydro (2010)
- Playtex (1947)
- Schick (1926)
Other brands in hand soap & sanitiser, and who owns them
The 14 brands in hand soap & sanitiser on Brandtree belong to 14 owners. The largest is Ego Pharmaceuticals, with 1.
| Brand | Owner | Owner based in |
|---|---|---|
| Savlon | ACI Limited | 🇧🇩 Bangladesh |
| Softsoap | Colgate-Palmolive | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Aqium | Ego Pharmaceuticals | 🇦🇺 Australia |
| Dermofarm | Farmec | 🇷🇴 Romania |
| Avé | Golrang Industrial Group | 🇮🇷 Iran |
| Sterillium | HARTMANN | 🇩🇪 Germany |
| Savlon | ITC | 🇮🇳 India |
| Jolly | La Fabril | 🇪🇨 Ecuador |
About the owner: Edgewell
Edgewell is a publicly listed company headquartered in Shelton, Connecticut, United States, founded in 2015. Brandtree records 8 brands under its control, and it is listed as NYSE: EPC.
Edgewell Personal Care was created in 2015 when Energizer Holdings split its battery business from its personal care brands, keeping Schick razors, Playtex and Banana Boat. It is the second-largest wet shaving company in the world behind Gillette.
🇺🇸 Wet Ones and other American brands
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; Wet Ones is not one of them.
Frequently asked questions
Who is the parent company of Wet Ones?
The parent company of Wet Ones is Edgewell, a publicly listed company headquartered in the United States.
Is Wet Ones American?
Yes. Wet Ones originated in the United States in 1978 and its owner, Edgewell, is also headquartered in the United States.
Is Wet Ones still owned by Edgewell?
Yes. As of 9 October 2026, Wet Ones is still owned by Edgewell. The ownership record was last checked against primary sources on that date.
Sources (1) & corrections
Last verified . Every ownership fact above is backed by one of these primary documents. Numbers in brackets in the text refer to this list.
- [1] Edgewell Personal Care Company Annual Report on Form 10-K filed 2025-11-18 — SEC EDGAR, SEC Form 10-K, published 18 November 2025; retrieved 16 September 2026.
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