This report looks at the following areas:
- Overview and forecast of the men’s facial skincare market in China
- The competitive landscape and new product trends in the men’s facial skincare market in China
- Key influencing factors in the men’s grooming market
- Men’s grooming product usage in the past six months
- Men’s preferences for product types in different BPC categories
- Considerations when choosing facial cleansers
- Men’s preferences for product types for different skincare benefits
- Men’s concerns about appearance
The skincare focus is on high-efficacy products and exploring the potential of repairing benefits, with cleansers emphasising sensory experiences; in colour cosmetics, gender-neutral products can be used as an entry point to increase usage rates, followed by the development of products for men.
Jane Chai, Senior Analyst, China Insights
Market Definitions
Men’s grooming routines refer to activities of cleaning, grooming and maintaining parts of the body. The consumer research covers multiple BPC categories, especially facial skincare and makeup products in this Report. Meanwhile, market size only reflects facial skincare products targeted exclusively at men, including:
- Facial cleansers
- Facial toners/softeners
- Facial moisturisers/emulsions/lotions
- Facial serums/essences/concentrates
- Facial sprays (eg mineral water)
- Facial oils
- Facial masks (including sheet mask, rinse-off and sleeping mask)
- Suncare products (excluding colour cosmetics with suncare function, eg BB cream)
- Eye creams/essences
- Lip care (eg lip balm, lip mask)
- Shaving care (including shaving cream and aftershave)
- Deep exfoliators/scrub products
- Special treatment products (eg nose strip).
Excluded
Neck care products (eg neck mask), deodorants etc.
The market size is based on sales through all retail channels, including direct to consumers, but excludes the professional sector (such as beauty salons) and C2C channels (eg WeChat business and Taobao). Products for women or which are unisex, specifically designed for or targeted at babies, medical products and suncare products are excluded from market sizing.