Beauty and Personal Care

This report examines inflation levels and drivers globally and in key countries in Q4 2023 and 2024. Global inflation is moderating, although divergence remains among the key economies. Higher volatility in the energy markets and disruption of…

In the upcoming years, consumers and businesses face an array of challenges, with income inequality, mass migration and rising uncertainty about another crisis being among the major ones. Nevertheless, within this lie untapped opportunities. This…

Sun care was the big winner in 2022, in both value and volume terms, thanks to the full reopening of society after the era of the pandemic, with the return of tourism and international travel, coupled with a long and hot summer in France during the…

In 2022, skin care is synonymous with the lightening of beauty routines which favour a “less is more” approach. Indeed, beauty in 2022 was strongly related to wellbeing – naturalness, authenticity, feeling good, having fun, are all values…

Beauty-based cosmetics and personal care are fairly resilient to economic crises in France, because the recession causes stress and anxiety and people will take refuge in wellbeing and cosmetics to relax and make themselves feel better. Indeed,…