Company Profile
Kao develops and sells hygiene living care, health beauty care, life care, cosmetics, and chemical products in Japan. It offers fabric, kitchen, home, and sanitary care products.
Its portfolio also includes facial, body, hair, and oral care, hair styling and color, salon, in-bathroom health care, and warming products, and self-selection cosmetics provides cosmetics counselling services, as well as oleo chemicals, such as oleochemicals, fat and oil derivatives, surfactants, and fragrances.
Its portfolio also includes water-reducing admixtures for concrete, casting sand binders, plastics additives, and process chemicals for various industries, and toners/toner binders, inkjet ink colorants, ink, fine polishing agents and cleaners for hard disk, and materials and process chemicals for semiconductor. Founded in 1887 and headquartered in Chuo, Japan, Kao was formerly known as Kao Soap Co., Ltd. before rebranding in 1982.