Growth in home care is increasingly driven by changing household behaviours and expectations. This report examines five key developments: the influence of pets on cleaning routines, richer consumer understanding through connected systems, stronger demand for experience-led products, growing interest in healthier home environments, and the rising importance of convenience. These shifts are creating new pathways for innovation, differentiation and category growth.
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Key findings
Pet-centric cleaning
The influence of pets on household purchasing and cleaning habits continues to grow, creating demand for products that address a wider range of cleaning occasions across the home. This is encouraging the development of solutions that combine effective cleaning with suitability for shared living environments.
Behaviour-led innovation
Advances in connectivity, digital ecosystems and analytics are providing richer visibility into how products fit into everyday routines. These insights enable brands to identify emerging needs more quickly, refine propositions with greater precision and respond more effectively to changing consumer expectations.
Desire-driven cleaning
Purchasing decisions are increasingly influenced by product experience, brand identity and lifestyle fit alongside performance. Companies that create stronger relevance, distinctiveness and consumer appeal are likely to strengthen consideration, conversion and repeat purchase.
Home care as wellbeing management
Consumers are becoming more mindful of ingredient choices, household environments and everyday exposure to products used in the home. This is creating growing interest in solutions that provide reassurance, transparency and support healthier living spaces.
The efficiency imperative
Consumers increasingly value solutions that fit seamlessly into busy schedules and simplify everyday tasks. Products that reduce effort, shorten routines and deliver dependable results in practical household conditions will become increasingly important drivers of category growth.
Our expert’s view of Home Care in 2026
Key findings
Much of future industry growth will be driven by developing markets
Top five trends in Home Care
Top five trends uncovered
Pet-friendly cleaning: from hygiene problem to household care ritual
Mrs. Meyer’s turns pet accidents into moments of connection
Singapore-based ECOPETS has found success in offering pet-friendly cleaning solutions
Pet-specific cleaning holds significant growth and premiumisation potential
Leading brands are turning a deeper understanding of everyday usage into innovation
Unilever: Ramps up AI capabilities to improve R&D agility and product discovery
Henkel Smartwash leverages in-use data to redesign laundry around real behaviour
Unilever uses AI to translate data into faster innovation and improved outcomes
Consumer understanding enters a new era
Consumer choice is increasingly influenced by relevance, identity and experience
Downy Boutique Botanicals translates laundry into a fragrance-led lifestyle experience
P&G’s Mr. Clean repositions shower cleaning as part of a beauty ritual
Brands that manage to create emotional resonance hold the key to unlocking growth
Non-toxic moves from niche to mainstream in home care
Unilever’s Cif Infinite Clean supports cleaning in pet-driven environments
Branch Basics scales human-safe cleaning as a mainstream health proposition
Showcase health-driven outcomes and science-backed non-toxicity
Juggling work and home: the time squeeze on domestic tasks is intensifying (again)
Dawn Powerwash eliminates cleaning steps helping consumers to save time
Following its initial launch in the UK, Unilever rolls out quick wash detergent globally
Unlock growth by innovating for a time-poor world
Future implications
Opportunities for growth
Home Care
This is the aggregation of laundry care, dishwashing products, surface care, chlorine bleach, toilet care, polishes, air fresheners and insecticides.
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