Stay ahead of the curve and secure future growth for your business with Mintel’s UK Beauty and Personal Care Retailing Market Report 2024. This report provides expert analysis of the UK beauty retail industry, including vital market statistics, consumer insights, and expected industry trends over the next 12 months and beyond.
Consumer spending on BPC products rose 6% in 2023 as price rises lifted value sales. While the cost-of-living crisis led to more savvy shopping behaviours particularly for personal care products such as soap, bath and shower products, other categories in beauty such as fragrances benefited from their positioning as an affordable luxury, as consumers looked to treat themselves amid a challenging economic climate.
65% of consumers think brands should be more transparent about the environmental impact of their products. Brands can respond to concerns around greenwashing by making sustainability statistics easier to understand with in-store displays or by comparing carbon emissions of a beauty product to products like clothing or coffee.
64% of Gen Zs agree that using product dupes is a good way to save money. The growing popularity of dupe culture as part of more savvy shopping behaviours is a challenge to premium brands, which need to find creative solutions to compete against cheaper alternatives.
Purchase the full report for more consumer insights, as well as a complete overview of the BPC retail industry and opportunities for future growth in the market. Readers of this report may also be interested in Mintel’s UK Prestige Beauty Consumer Market Report 2024.
This report examines the UK beauty and personal care retailing market for men and women aged 16 and over. It covers beauty, personal care, bpc accessories and electricals, and health and wellbeing products.
This report features brand research of the market leaders in the BPC retail space, including Boots, Superdrug, Sephora, Avon, Space NK, and Neal’s Yard Remedies.
This report, written by Tamara Sender Ceron, a leading analyst in the retail sector, delivers in-depth commentary and analysis to highlight current trends in the beauty and personal care retail industry and add expert context to the numbers.
While savvy shopping habits particularly for soap, bath and shower dented value sales, beauty markets such as fragrances benefited from being seen as an affordable luxury.
Tamara Sender Ceron
Associate Director, Fashion Retail
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