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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 years. The many forms of artificial intelligence programmed to inform, educate, persuade and […]

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GCI: What’s Driving Increased Skin Care Patch Usage?

Skin care and wellness patches are rising in popularity as pathways to enhanced beauty and self-care routines, with the global market for transdermal patches alone expected to grow from $6.7 billion in 2022 to $8.8 billion by 2027, per a BCC Research analysisDisplay footnote number:a. Used on their own in various formats, or in tandem […]

Beauty Shoppers Reveal Their Packaging Attitudes

GCI: Beauty Shoppers Reveal Their Packaging Attitudes

Forty-six percent of U.S. female beauty and personal care buyers admit that a product’s packaging is influential or very influential to their purchase decision; make that 50% for millennial and Gen Z buyers. Whether that package is primary or secondary, sustainable, refillable, made of plastic or glass, the vessel containing the product plays a vital […]

The Business of Brows

CNN: The Big Business of Brows

Once, if you were talking about going to the salon for a trim, a restyle, color or shape, you’d have been talking about the hair on your scalp. But in 2023, it’s just as likely to be your eyebrows. That’s because brows are big business and growing — not just in terms of salon treatments, […]

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GCI: Consumers Tell All on Eye & Brow Makeup

In the past 12 months, 73% of U.S. beauty-buying consumers surveyed say they’ve purchased both eyelash makeup products and tools as well as eyebrow products or tools—up from 66% just five years ago when The Benchmarking Company revealed results from its first nationwide consumer lash and brow makeup survey (2018). Between then and now, the […]

Why Substantiation Matters

GCI: Beauty Product Claims & the NAD: Why Substantiation Matters

Serving as the self-regulatory forum for the advertising industry, the National Advertising Division (NAD)** reviews national advertising in all media based on challenges from competitors, complaints from consumers, or on its own monitoring initiative covering a wide variety of industries and issues. NAD’s review fulfills its public interest mission of ensuring that advertising claims are […]

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GCI: Inside Consumers’ Growing Awareness Of Hair & Scalp Health

Achieving that perfect hair day—when hair looks fuller, shinier, more youthful and effortlessly holds a style all day—is a goal of many women. Consumers now understand that good hair and scalp health is the means to attain that goal. In recent years, hair care buyers have become significantly more concerned about hair and scalp health, […]

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Cosmetics and Toiletries: Inside Consumers’ Growing Awareness of Hair & Scalp Health

Achieving that perfect hair day—when hair looks fuller, shinier, more youthful and effortlessly holds a style all day—is a goal of many women. Consumers now understand that good hair and scalp health is the means to attain that goal. In recent years, hair care buyers have become significantly more concerned about hair and scalp health, […]

Baths, Showers & Beauty: Consumers Tell All

GCI: Baths, Showers & Beauty: Consumers Tell All

The importance of “me time” in the bath or shower rises with personal stress levels, as does the importance of the products consumers use when indulging themselves. To uncover shoppers’ bath and body care habits, the brands they love, scents they crave, and after-bath skin care essentials, The Benchmarking Company (TBC) conducted an in-depth 56-question […]

Happi - Clean Beauty

Happi: Clean Beauty Report

The Benchmarking Company Beauty by the Numbers Infographic Series: Clean Beauty Report TBC looks into consumer market research trends for clean beauty. What do nearly 3,000 US females think about “clean” beauty? How important is clean to her? Does she understand what clean is? Find out by diving into this fresh consumer research from The […]