TBC in the News


Oct
15
2024

Happi: Teen & Tween Beauty

The Benchmarking Company’s latest deep dive into beauty data focuses on the younger set of consumers—teens and tweens, to be exact! CLICK HERE TO READ THE REST OF THE ARTICLE ...
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Oct
04
2024

GCI: Gen Z’s & Alpha’s Parents Tell All on their Kids’ Beauty Obsessions

Beauty buying skews younger with each new generation, thanks to easier and faster access to products along with the steamrolling influence of social media. With the rise of Gen Alpha and Sephora kids, proliferating messages of aging prevention and children’s urge to start us ...
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Sep
03
2024

Psychology Today: The Teen Skincare Craze and its Impact on Mental Health

In recent years, the skincare industry has exploded with products targeting teenagers. From influencers promoting 10-step routines on social media to a surge in new skincare brands aimed at younger demographics. But what’s driving this phenomenon, and how does it affect the ...
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Sep
03
2024

GCI: How Beauty x Wellness Can Address Stressed-out Consumers: New Data

Fifty-five percent of the 4,000-plus U.S. female beauty buyers surveyed in a nationwide study say they are more mentally stressed now than they were five years ago, with 18% saying their stress level is similar to what it was then. At the same time, 89% say the importance th ...
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Aug
23
2024

GCI: Hair Microneedling, Scalp Spas & the Rise of Scalp Wellness: TBC Quoted

According to a new Spate report, "the fastest growing hair services are scalp spas and hair microneedling," both of which target overall hair wellness via the scalp, particularly thinning and loss. As previously reported, "how to grow hair faster" and "why is my hair falling ...
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Aug
09
2024

GCI: What Beauty Brands & Influencers Need to Know about Truth in Marketing

Beauty is a visual industry and so many consumers rely on photos, videos and tutorials—in addition to personal recommendations and their own experiences—before they purchase cosmetic and personal care products. In fact, almost half of U.S. beauty shoppers purchase new produc ...
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Jul
30
2024

The Robin Report: Gen Z Beauty Preference Report

To gain current intel on Gen Z beauty preferences, The Robin Report solicited the help of Reston, Virginia-based The Benchmarking Company. Tapping into its organically grown base of 300k+ vetted beauty and personal care buyers (which it cutely dubs thePinkPanel), it dissemin ...
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Jun
01
2024

GCI: Consumers’ Sun Care Wish List

Forty percent of consumers say they apply sunscreen daily, regardless of weather or the season, while 74% say they’re buying more sun protection products now—both in their cosmetics and as standalone sunscreens—than they did 5 years ago. Innovations in sun care from the U ...
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May
01
2024

GCI: What Consumers Want From Hair Care In 2024

The global hair and scalp care market is expected to grow at an annual rate of 6.6% through 2028a, with prestige hair care growing 14% in 2023, per Circanab. U.S. consumers are doing their part to keep the category moving strongly forward, with more than 95% of U.S. femal ...
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Feb
05
2024

GCI: Lift & Tuck: Consumer Attitudes Toward Aesthetic Procedures

While it’s said that everyone is beautiful in their own way, many U.S. women and men rely on professionals to augment their natural features to enable them to be happier with the skin they’re in. More than 26.2 million surgical and minimally invasive cosmetic and reconstr ...
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Jan
02
2024

GCI: What Consumers Want from Skin Care Masks: New Data

When it comes to the workhorse of the beauty world, few products can hold a candle to face masks. For decades, masks have been a part of the lineup for nearly every skin care brand, but up until several years ago, the category seemed to be a bit stagnant. Not any longer. Fro ...
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Nov
06
2023

GCI: Beauty Tech’s Impact on Consumer Purchasing

Seventy-six percent of U.S. female beauty buyers say they’ve purchased a new color cosmetic product in the past six months. While where she’s buying makeup remains relatively constant, how she’s learning about new makeup products has changed tremendously over the past 10 yea ...
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