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The Future of Oral Care 2026
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Drive oral care growth by blurring with beauty, wellness and VMS, elevating sensory experiences and efficacy, and innovating for breakthroughs in dental science. Rosalia Di Gesu, Director, Mintel Beauty &…
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The Future of Oral Care 2026

Drive oral care growth by blurring with beauty, wellness and VMS, elevating sensory experiences and efficacy, and innovating for breakthroughs in dental science.

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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

    • Blur oral care with beauty, wellness and supplements to unlock growth
    • Capitalise on predicted growth in adjacent on-trend BPC categories
    • Take inspiration from brands pairing lip and oral care
    • Blur with the resilient fragrances category
    • Embrace inside-out BPC trends and fill an innovation gap with oral care VMS
    • Be inspired by emerging oral care supplements
    • Drive volume growth in dental ancillaries through beauty marketing
    • Beautify the tongue to create a new growth segment
    • Capitalise on the booming wellness economy
    • Innovate with sleep and the circadian rhythm in mind to drive growth
    • Use bold, sexual-wellness-inspired branding to grab attention and drive trial and trade-up
    • Add more sensory and social elements to drive trial, usage and trade-up
    • Expand oral care products’ sensory appeal beyond taste and smell to drive spend
    • Elevate the sense of touch or mouthfeel via mousse and fizzing textures
    • Fill a soundscape innovation gap
    • Visually engage with unexpected pack/format colours and designs to drive premiumisation-led value growth
    • Use Dragonfly AI to optimise pack design for greater visibility and commercial impact
    • Elevate the senses on social commerce to drive spend
    • Graph 1: share of consumers who say they have discovered new oral care products through an advert on social media, 2025
    • Lean into creator influence to drive penetration among younger consumers
    • Turn efficacy into a premiumisation engine
    • Unlock premiumisation through manual toothbrush innovation
    • Be inspired by manual toothbrushes promoting efficacy through bristle innovation
    • Create a new premium tier through intelligent oral care systems
    • Enhance whitening performance with ‘double granuals’ formulas, booster ancillaries and science-backed claims
    • Drive growth through next-generation sensitivity care
    • Be inspired by brands expanding into a sensitive teeth/gum segment and focusing on fast relief
    • Avoid exaggerated claims and boldly point to the evidence to protect brand reputation and sales
    • Strengthen efficacy claims by highlighting ingredient potency and delivery
    • Graph 2: toothpaste launches with select ingredients, 2021-22 vs 2025-26
    • Be inspired by NPD calling out ingredient potency claims and advanced delivery capabilities
    • Build premium efficacy stories around next-generation actives
    • Elevate efficacy through oral microbiome health
    • Demonstrate efficacy with less water as climate pressures intensify
  3. IN FIVE YEARS AND BEYOND

    • Prepare for breakthroughs in dental science that will reshape oral care
    • Prepare for the oral care needs of regrown teeth
    • Actionable opportunities for a future of tooth regeneration
    • Explore biomaterials that mimic and regenerate natural tooth structures
    • Plan for a future of precision oral care shaped by medical research
    • Extend oral care’s role before and after cosmetic dental treatments
    • Key takeaways
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"Drive oral care growth by blurring with beauty, wellness and VMS, elevating sensory experiences and efficacy, and innovating for breakthroughs in dental science."

Rosalia Di Gesu, Director, Mintel Beauty & Personal Care

Rosalia Di Gesu, Director, Mintel Beauty & Personal Care

Discover the most important future trends in oral care with Mintel’s Future Of report. The report identifies the key consumer and industry trends that will impact the oral care industry over the next five years.

Upcoming global trends in oral care 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.

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