We are Schwarzkopf Professional® – From our start as a Berlin Family business, we have always been reinventing hair. Today, our hairdresser community stretches around the globe with one common bond: an absolute passion for hair.
We create with hairdressers for hairdressers to give you cutting-edge products with relevant services before anyone else. We bring you the latest hair trends via our seasonal ESSENTIAL LOOKS® and digital influencers, global education and salon support programs, tailored and delivered by truly passionate people.
Our partnership is all about adding real value to your salon business so you can stand out. Why? Because your success is our success.
We are one. Bound together by our love of hair.
We are fuelled by the same fire and devotion to our craft.
Our collective ambition to excel drives our spirit.
To question. To explore. To outdo what’s been done before.
Discover some of our favourite facts, as we reflect on 123 years of Schwarzkopf Professional®…
Chemist Hans Schwarzkopf lays the cornerstone for one of the most important hair cosmetics companies in the world with his drugstore “Farben-, Drogen- und Parfümeriehandlung” in Berlin.
His first development, water-soluble powder shampoo “Shampoon mit dem Schwarzen Kopf,” gains quickly in popularity.
Hans Schwarzkopf launches his latest innovation: the first liquid shampoo.
Onalkali, the world’s first alkali-free shampoo, follows. Onalkali is now considered the prototype of all modern shampoos.