Beauty and Personal Care

Tanzania, one of the world’s poorest nations, has a predominantly rural population and a young median age. The beauty and personal care market is underdeveloped due to financial constraints with demand characterised by basic necessities, such as bar…

In 2021, sales of beauty and personal care products increased, but not to a level to compensate for the decline in sales in the previous year when demand for such products declined due to national lockdowns and home seclusion. Pandemic-related…

After a year of little movement in 2020, 2021 was a year of recovery for beauty and personal care in volume terms, and to a greater extent in current value terms. Although COVID-19 disrupted the Indian economy during Q2 of 2021, when mobility…

Argentina experienced one of the longest quarantine and home seclusion periods in the world during 2020 as the COVID-19 pandemic took hold of the country. This had a strongly detrimental impact on businesses, leading to the GDP contractions being one…

The COVID-19 crisis had a varied impact on the performance of the beauty and personal care market in Indonesia. The marked reduction in physical social interaction due to stay at home measures and the shift to working and studying from home…

In 2021, COVID-19 related restrictions remained in place for most of the year. This had a mixed impact on the performance of beauty and personal care in 2021, despite recording overall positive volume and value growth. Product areas such as skin…

The rate of growth in retail constant value sales (2021) of beauty and personal care slowed for the second year in a row during 2021. Demand for beauty and personal care products was negatively affected by lockdown measures that extended into the…

Compared to a subdued performance in 2020 due to rising price sensitivity and limited mobility as a result of the pandemic, beauty and personal care recorded dynamic growth rates in 2021, despite the fact that the country continued to suffer from the…

During 2020 and 2021, demand came under pressure in all categories of beauty and personal care due to the impact of Lebanon’s deep and sustained economic crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic. While consumers were going out to socialise less often, prices…

2021 heralded the start of recovery for beauty and personal care in Azerbaijan, after the severe declines seen in 2020 due to impacts from the COVID-19 pandemic. The lockdowns and social restrictions of 2020 did lead to a “home spa” trend, whereby…

Beauty and personal care in Latvia, having suffered strongly from the outbreak of Coronavirus (COVID-19) in 2020, and the measures introduced to halt the spread of the virus, returned to positive growth in 2021, although a full recovery to…

Every category within beauty and personal care achieved positive growth in 2021, with the market rebounding from a contraction in the previous year that was stimulated by the COVID-19 pandemic. However rising inflation and a high unemployment rate…

Beauty and personal care in 2021: The big picture

The Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic had its biggest effect on skin care in Israel in 2020. COVID-19-related lockdowns and stay-at-home lifestyles characterised long periods of the year, which negatively impacted beauty and personal care regimes,…

Beauty and personal care in Tunisia recorded value and volume growth in 2021 despite the economic and health crisis in the country and ongoing COVID-19 restrictions for part of the year, including confinement periods and a curfew from January to…

After being negatively impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, beauty and personal care has started to recover in 2021. However, demand is now being impacted by the increasing prices of fuel, which is having an impact on imports. Nonetheless, the…

2021 was a good year for beauty and personal care, after the dismal trading year in 2020, when consumers were confined to home for the most part and many people lost their jobs. In 2021, with society opening up, current value and volume sales were…

After a year of slow current value growth due to the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, beauty and personal care returned to a stronger performance in 2021. However, performances were not equal across categories. For instance, bath and shower, which saw a…

The US beauty and personal care industry saw dynamic growth in 2021, with a double-digit increase in current value terms, which was a significant reversal of the slight decline seen in 2020. Even compared with 2019 figures, overall beauty and…

Beauty and personal care in Ecuador was significantly impacted by COVID-19, especially the colour cosmetics, fragrances and sun care categories. With people working from home, not socialising and wearing face masks, product demand plummeted. In May…