Herbal Essences
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Sep 22, 2026
Bobby CapucciHOST
Instead, the company was purchased in 2005 by Procter & Gamble for a reported $440 million.
Bobby CapucciHOST
The company, known for producing drugstore standbys like Pantene and Herbal Essence, tried and failed to introduce Fakai's product line to a mass market audience, dropping its price point as well as its prestige.
Bobby CapucciHOST
Look, man, I don't...
Bobby CapucciHOST
I never understand these kinds of moves.
Bobby CapucciHOST
When you have store brands like Herbal Essence and Pantene, their parent company dives in and tries to buy a luxury product.
Bobby CapucciHOST
Why not just stick with the niche market that you've worked with for so long and you've excelled in? You don't see Hyundai trying to buy a Bentley or a Rolls-Royce division, do you? No, they do what they know how to do.
Bobby CapucciHOST
P&G eventually sold the company to designer perfumes and luxe brands at an estimated $390 million loss.
Brad ChalcraftGUEST
Um...
Lianne LangloisHOST
Herbal Essence is okay.
Lianne LangloisHOST
I mean, everybody has their way to decompress, right?
Brad ChalcraftGUEST
Yeah, for sure.
Dave CarielloHOST
essences.
Dave CarielloHOST
Herbal essences.
Dave CarielloHOST
It was banana herbal essences.
Dave CarielloHOST
That's right.
Dave CarielloHOST
Yeah, but I'm not getting a rap.
Dave CarielloHOST
Isn't Herbal Essence the horny shampoo? Yeah, the commercial? Yeah, it's the one where they...
Dave CarielloHOST
Yeah, everybody's getting off.
Ralph MarlboroughHOST
Kevin, any shampoo can be a horny shampoo if you know how to use it.
EricHOST
I mean, I mean, can y- Like, I don't think that you'll be able to describe, or any of us would be able to describe to our k- kids how you pooped before phones.
JimHOST
I mean, we would just read the same paragraph on Herbal Essences bottle.
EricHOST
Every bathroom-
JimHOST
Like, I've read this before
speaker_2ADVERTISER
They
Nick MartellHOST
own Herbal Essences, Old Spice, and Pantene.
Nick MartellHOST
So the investors, they should have smelled this one coming.
Nick MartellHOST
Pheromone maxing.
SanaHOST
He's a TEDx speaker and he's the author of the Janus Plan, a no resolutions path to begin your year with intention.
SanaHOST
He burned out at the peak of a Fortune 500 career running clear all herbal essences.
SanaHOST
and spent the next 30 years building a framework for honest new beginners, beginnings from that experience.
SanaHOST
So let's begin our discussion, listeners, and let's welcome Jobert Abueba.
SanaHOST
So there's a lot happening here.
SanaHOST
But before we get to understand all of this, I want to start at the actual burnout because I can see that everything that you have built, it seems to trace back to it.
SanaHOST
So can you take us through that, like at the peak of your career at Clear All Herbal Essences, what it actually felt from inside?
Jobert AbuevaGUEST
Absolutely.
Mike HaydenUNKNOWN
Oh.
Jon WertheimHOST
It looked like an Herbal Essences commercial.
Mike HaydenUNKNOWN
Man.
Mike HaydenUNKNOWN
Oh.
Helen JohnsonGUEST
So if I think about my most memorable one at P&G, oh, let me think, let me think.
Helen JohnsonGUEST
Probably one that I did on Herbal Essences with Nicole Schertzinger.
Helen JohnsonGUEST
And it was memorable because we became the number one trending item on Twitter, which was a really good thing in one sense, but it was also the same day as Nelson Mandela's funeral.
Helen JohnsonGUEST
So we got quite a bit of backlash.
Noeleen SmythGUEST
My job was changing.
Noeleen SmythGUEST
So, suddenly, all of the things, like the orchids in the bottles of herbal essence, you can figure out...
Noeleen SmythGUEST
Oh, my
KylieADVERTISER
God.
Noeleen SmythGUEST
And I just went like...
Ruth MedjberHOST
No.
Ruth MedjberHOST
Every time a Herbal Essence comes out with a new thing, you must be just like, oh, stop.
Noeleen SmythGUEST
Oh, do you stop? Yeah.
Chris SchmidtHOST
Sunday Live is here with the Average Joe Sports Show.
Chris SchmidtHOST
The Iron Horse, Gary Sharp, Bride of Fairbairns, Bill Dolman, and get that man some Alka-Seltzer, Elijah Herbal with us, that Herbal Essence.
Chris SchmidtHOST
The Wedding Soiree.
Chris SchmidtHOST
We'll be moved back because we have football to talk about, plenty to react to.
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