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The Future of Men’s Grooming 2026
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Target younger men influenced by looksmaxxing, support longer hair and facial hair trends, tap into the wellness boom, and use AI to smooth the path to purchase. Rosalia Di Gesu,…
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The Future of Men’s Grooming 2026

"Target younger men influenced by looksmaxxing, support longer hair and facial hair trends, tap into the wellness boom, and use AI to smooth the path to purchase."

Rosalia Di Gesu, Director, Mintel Beauty & Personal Care

Rosalia Di Gesu, Director, Mintel Beauty & Personal Care

Discover the future trends in the global men’s grooming market with Mintel’s Future Of report. The report identifies the key consumer and industry trends that will impact the men’s grooming industry over the next five years.

The most important upcoming trends in the men’s personal care market are analysed and succinctly presented alongside relevant insights from Mintel’s consumer data. So you can understand how consumer demands will change and identify future innovation and growth opportunities.

This report also presents Mintel’s analysts’ pick of the most innovative and inspirational launches in the global men’s grooming market. Understanding the future of the men’s grooming industry has never been so easy.

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  1. WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW

    • Where we are now
    • Mintel recommends: in the next two years
    • Mintel recommends: in five years and beyond
  2. IN THE NEXT TWO YEARS

    • Guide men from extreme looksmaxxing to credible, safe performance
    • Target younger men facing more intense pressure to look perfect
    • Champion self-acceptance over perfection
    • Case study: Based Bodyworks
    • Promote makeup as a less extreme way to maximise one’s looks/jawline
    • Be inspired by makeup and massage tools promising to maximise looks/jawline
    • Ride the injectable biohack and peptide wave
    • Consider injectable peptide, NAD+ and acne innovations
    • Win in men’s BPC by powering hair growth and normalising removal
    • Why supporting hair growth and removal matters
    • Capitalise on longer hair and facial hair trends
    • Leverage the interest in hair styling as a gateway to skincare
    • Innovate for varied hairloss resolutions: transplants, ‘tattoos’ and wigs
    • Improve hair growth with inside-out, microneedling and bespoke approaches
    • Graph 1: share of men who are focused on preventing premature hairloss when it comes to long-term beauty and health, by select markets, 2026
    • Lean into emerging inside-out, microneedling and personalised hair growth innovation
    • Scale innovation for men’s body hair removal
    • Be inspired by the latest men’s body hair removal innovations
    • Frame men’s BPC as health/wellness essentials to drive commercial growth
    • Play a supportive role amid a gender wellness gap, without overpromising
    • Graph 2: share of consumers who use BPC products to relax/relieve stress, men vs women, by select market, 2024
    • Extend hormonal beauty narratives from women’s BPC to men’s
    • Brands reassure that formulas are ‘testosterone-safe’ and invest in testosterone therapy
    • Educate on and tap into the nascent andropause men’s BPC segment
    • Improve wellness and BPC outcomes via community and connection
    • Highlight the wellness merits of ‘slow beauty’ rituals
    • Capitalise on still-emerging neurocosmetic trends
  3. IN FIVE YEARS AND BEYOND

    • Prepare for the impact of AI on paths to purchase
    • Invest in agentic AI to simplify and transform the path to purchase
    • Keep trust at the forefront in the emerging agentic AI space
    • Be discoverable on AI assistants through specific and repeatable claims and dermatologist credibility
    • Simplify men’s BPC choices with clutter-free, trust-led ecommerce design
    • Key takeaways

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