Beauty and Personal Care

2023 saw colour cosmetics record positive volume growth for the third consecutive year as the return to pre-pandemic lifestyles meant that many local consumers had more reason to wear colour cosmetics. The return to working and socialising outside of…

2023 saw Uruguay’s beauty and personal care industry face declining volume sales as cross-border shopping and the informal trade in parallel imports and contraband smuggled in from Argentina continues to erode demand for products distributed through…

2023 saw bath and shower register significant declines in volume sales and the main factor underpinning this trend is the huge gap that exists in prices between retail outlets in Uruguay and neighbouring Argentina, where the prices charged for a wide…

For the third year in a row, volume sales of baby and child-specific products decreased in Uruguay during 2023, while current value growth remained below the rate of inflation. This negative sales trend can be attributed mainly to the prevalence of…

Sun care continues to register positive volume growth in 2023 after 2022 saw the category record truly phenomenal sales growth on the back of an incredible increase in demand for baby and child-specific sun care. A number of factors contributed to…

Sun care in Costa Rica showed an improved performance in volume growth terms in 2023. This was partly due to a steep drop in inflation, which caused current value growth to slow significantly from 2022 but bolstered purchasing power among consumers.…

Facial care continued to generate positive volume growth in 2023, even as overall volume growth in skin care fell into negative territory. In recent years, facial care has benefited substantially from a range of factors that have continued to drive…

Conventional products continued to face growing competition from dermocosmetics in skin care in Costa Rica in 2023, with this trend remaining most visible in the premium segment. Recent years have seen dermocosmetic varieties offered by brands like…

Premium beauty and personal care remains a category with very low penetration within Ecuador. In the midst of perennial low sales and a general lack of dynamism, L'Oréal and its local partner Quifatex SA have begun to revitalise the category with the…

E-commerce continued to gain importance in terms of premium beauty and personal care distribution in Costa Rica in 2023. While this was in keeping with the trend evident across the market as a whole, the channel’s rising penetration also reflected…