EDGEWELL PERSONAL CARE Co

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

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THE ENVIRONMENT

ELECTRONIC DELIVERY OF PROXY MATERIALS

At Edgewell, we believe in operating our business responsibly and view our sustainability efforts as an enabler of our growth strategy. Our Sustainable Care 2030 strategy continues to guide us forward as we pursue our goals and explore new ways to create a positive impact, such as taking action to help conserve and restore natural resources and ecosystems.

Letter to our Shareholders

from our President and Chief Executive Officer

and our Non-Executive Chairman of the Board

December 22, 2025

Dear Fellow Shareholders,

You are cordially invited to attend the Annual Meeting of Shareholders of Edgewell Personal Care Company to be held on February 5, 2026 at 8:30 a.m. Eastern Time at the Company’s offices located at 780 Third Avenue, New York, New York 10017.

Fiscal 2025 Accomplishments

In fiscal 2025, we delivered strong results in key areas of our business: our international markets continued to expand, innovation gained traction across our portfolio, and our supply chain optimization efforts drove meaningful savings. We also made decisive, transformational choices that we believe fundamentally repositioned Edgewell for long-term value creation. By streamlining our portfolio and simplifying our U.S. commercial organization, we have sharpened our focus on the categories and brands where we hold clear competitive advantages.

The year also presented challenges, both externally and internally, as we navigated tariffs, foreign exchange volatility, geopolitical tensions, and consumer uncertainty, all of which impacted our financial performance and stressed our global supply chain. We experienced weaker-than-expected Sun Care seasons in North America and parts of Latin America, and a slower-than-expected recovery in Feminine Care.

As announced during our earnings call in November, we have made the decision to divest our Feminine Care business, with an anticipated closing in the first calendar quarter of 2026. This strategic divestiture is a key step forward as we continue to transform Edgewell into a more focused, agile, and consumer-driven personal care company. We believe that by focusing our attention and resources on the categories where we have clear competitive advantages and strong momentum — Shave, Sun and Skin Care, and Grooming — we are positioning Edgewell to deliver sustainable growth, stronger margins, and long-term value for our shareholders. Together with the changes we have made to our U.S. commercial organization, including elevating our talent pool, we are actively strengthening our portfolio and building a better and more durable business.

In the U.S., we have initiated a bold transformation aimed at returning the business to profitable, sustained top-line growth over time. In the last year we conducted a thorough strategic review and identified core strengths as well as key areas that have hindered performance. Our category positions are structurally attractive — we are a leader in Sun Care, a fast-growing upstart in men’s Grooming and have a unique branded and private label position in Shave. Our brands have established solid awareness and are backed by robust product delivery capabilities. We have strong technical know-how and capabilities with owned assets and a deep R&D bench. We continue to run the business with a commitment to discipline across operations, cost management, and capital deployment.

While fiscal 2025 was a year of both challenge and transformation, we exited the year with real momentum — our strongest sales quarter in nearly two years, with improving market share trends, and a revitalized brand portfolio. We’ve reshaped our structure, sharpened our strategy, and built a foundation for growth. As we enter fiscal 2026, we’re focused on execution, margin recovery, and delivering sustainable shareholder value.

Looking Ahead

For fiscal 2026, we believe we have developed a balanced and achievable plan, underpinned by continued strong performance in our international markets and further productivity savings. These efforts are expected to fuel both investment in our brands and adjusted gross margin accretion. At the same time, we are focusing on stabilizing our North

America business, even as we anticipate that the macro environment will remain challenging, with muted category growth and the consumer continuing to be cautious around discretionary spending.

In North America, we believe that fiscal 2026 will be a year of transition and foundation-building for longer-term growth. We expect to begin realizing the benefits of our ongoing initiatives through the stabilization of our North America business, while simultaneously laying the groundwork for renewed growth in 2027 and beyond.

We are confident in our North America team’s ability to transform our business, supported by their commitment to addressing key areas of opportunity outlined below:

We are recommitting to our Shave business where we have a differentiated position across branded and private label, underpinned by solid brand awareness and excellent product performance. While we recognize that it will take time to rebuild distribution and share, our immediate focus is to begin stabilizing performance and setting the foundation for future growth. In fiscal 2026, we plan to further optimize our North America Shave business and manufacturing footprint — streamlining operations, reducing duplication, and unlocking working capital. By investing in blade excellence, and embracing next-generation automation and digital tools, we are building a more agile, resilient, and customer-focused supply chain. These actions are designed to enable faster responses to consumer demand, drive innovation, and position us for sustained margin improvement. Importantly, we believe these operational enhancements will not only deliver meaningful productivity savings but also support reinvestment in our core brands and innovation pipeline — strengthening our leadership in a highly competitive market.

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We are taking decisive action to increase investment behind our 5 focus brands — Schick®, Billie®, Hawaiian Tropic®, Banana Boat® and Cremo®. By shifting our strategy toward sustained brand building and a balanced marketing mix, we are committed to restoring brand equity, driving deeper consumer engagement, and positioning our portfolio for durable growth.

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We have simplified our structure in the U.S. to support faster decisions, greater investment in growth capabilities, and increased ownership and accountability. We’ve implemented a significant organizational redesign by launching a streamlined U.S. commercial organization, bringing together a new talented, proven leadership team and we are ramping up new teams dedicated to improving our capabilities in insights and analytics, brand building, and revenue growth management.

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As we look ahead to fiscal 2026, Edgewell is committed to executing a disciplined roadmap designed to deliver sustainable improvement and long-term value. With the focused actions we are taking, we are confident in our ability to navigate a dynamic environment and position Edgewell for renewed growth and enhanced shareholder returns.

We would also like to recognize director James C. Johnson and thank him for his years of service and the contributions he has made to the Company, and we wish him the best in the future.

We encourage you to review this Proxy Statement to learn more about the Board, our governance practices, compensation programs and philosophy, and other important developments and priorities at Edgewell. Your vote at the Annual Meeting is important. Whether or not you plan to attend the meeting, we urge you to vote as soon as possible. There are several ways to vote prior to the Annual Meeting. You can vote online or by phone by following the instructions on the enclosed proxy, or you can complete, sign, date and return the enclosed proxy in the envelope provided.

We would like to thank you for your continued interest and investment in Edgewell and for your ongoing engagement with our Company.

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NOTICE OF THE ANNUAL MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS

The 2026 Annual Meeting of Shareholders of Edgewell Personal Care Company (the “Annual Meeting”) will be held at 8:30 a.m. Eastern Time on Thursday, February 5, 2026 at the Company’s offices located at 780 Third Avenue, New York, New York 10017.

The purpose of the meeting is:

Note: Including such other business as may properly come before the meeting or any adjournment or postponement thereof.

We are mailing to many of our shareholders a notice of Internet availability of the proxy materials, rather than mailing the proxy materials. The notice of Internet availability contains instructions on how to access our proxy materials on the Internet, as well as instructions on obtaining a paper copy. This process will reduce our costs to print and distribute our proxy materials. All shareholders who do not receive such a notice of Internet availability, and any shareholders who request to receive a paper copy of the proxy materials, will receive a full set of paper proxy materials by U.S. mail.

How to Cast Your Vote. You may vote if you were a shareholder of record on November 28, 2025. It is important that your shares be represented and voted at the Annual Meeting. All voting, other than in-person at the Annual Meeting, must be completed by 11:59 p.m. (ET) on February 4, 2026. Please vote in one of the following ways:

This Notice, the Proxy Statement, and our 2025 Annual Report on Form 10-K have also been posted atwww.proxyvote.com.

By Order of the Board of Directors,

LaTanya Langley

Chief People Officer, Chief Legal Officer

and Corporate Secretary

December 22, 2025

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Fiscal 2025 Performance Highlights

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Organic results are not presented in accordance with GAAP and exclude the impact of changes in foreign currency translation. See Appendix A for additional information about these non-GAAP financial measures.

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Our Purpose and Values

Make useful things joyful — this is our purpose, our north star that guides everything we do. We infuse joy into our daily interactions, and we create products that are functional and bring happiness to people. Our values are core to our purpose and inspire our collaborations with teammates, our partnerships with customers, and our connection to consumers. As we innovate for the future, these values are the beacon that keep us on course. They aren’t just words on a page, we live them. They define our expectations — of our products, our Company, and ourselves.

Forward-Looking Statements

This Proxy Statement contains “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 provides a safe harbor for forward-looking statements made by or on behalf of Edgewell Personal Care Company or any of our businesses. These forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, statements concerning the timing and expected strategic impact of the Feminine Care business divestiture, our ability to return the business to profitable, sustained top-line growth, strategic initiatives, macroeconomic trends and other estimates, projections, objectives and expected results, and the assumptions upon which those statements are based. Forward-looking statements generally can be identified by the use of words or phrases such as “believe,” “expect,” “anticipate,” “intend,” “opportunity,” “plan,” “project,” “will,” “should,” “could,” “would,” “likely” and similar expressions. Forward-looking statements are based on current assumptions that are subject to risks and uncertainties that may cause actual results to differ materially from the forward-looking statements. Such risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, the following: our ability to compete in products and prices, as well as costs, in an intensely competitive industry; the loss of any of our principal customers or changes in the policies of our principal customers; our inability to design and execute a successful omnichannel strategy; our ability to attract, retain and develop key personnel; fluctuations in the price and supply of raw materials and costs of labor, warehousing and transportation; the impact of seasonal volatility on our sales, financial performance, working capital requirements and cash flow; the ability to successfully manage evolving global financial risks, including tariffs, foreign currency fluctuations, currency exchange or pricing controls and localized volatility; our level of indebtedness and the various covenants related thereto, and to generate sufficient income and cash flow to allow the Company to effect the expected share repurchases and dividend payment; our ability to effect future repurchases of our common stock; the ability to successfully execute and integrate any new business acquisitions; impacts from any loss of our principal customers or changes in the policies or strategies of our customers; our failure to maintain our brands’ reputation and successfully respond to changing consumer habits and perceptions of certain ingredients, negative perceptions of packaging, lack of recyclability or other environmental attributes; our access to capital markets and borrowing capacity; impairment of our goodwill and other intangible assets; the ability to successfully manage the financial, legal, reputational and operational risks associated with third-party relationships, such as our suppliers, contract manufacturers, distributors, contractors and external business partners; risks associated with our international operations; our ability to effectively integrate acquired companies and successfully manage divestiture activities; our ability to successfully implement our cost savings initiatives, including rationalization or restructuring efforts; the ability to rely on and maintain key Company and third-party information and operational technology systems, networks and services and maintain the security and functionality of such systems, networks and services and the data contained therein; the ability to successfully achieve, maintain or adjust our environmental or sustainability goals and priorities; the ability to successfully manage current and expanding regulatory and legal requirements and matters (including, without limitation, those laws and regulations involving product liability, product and packaging composition, manufacturing processes, intellectual property, labor and employment, antitrust, privacy, cybersecurity and data protection, artificial intelligence, tax, the environment, due diligence, risk oversight, accounting and financial reporting) and to resolve new and pending matters within current estimates; the ability to adequately protect our intellectual property rights; product quality and safety issues, including recalls and product liability; losses or increased funding and expenses related to our pension plans; and the other important factors described in Item 1A — Risk Factors of our 2025 Annual Report on Form 10-K. Such forward-looking statements speak only as of the date they are made, and we undertake no obligation to update or revise publicly any forward-looking statements, except as required by law.

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