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Skincare devices, hair tools, grooming and fragrance formats. Which beauty trends show up in sales and regulation, and which are mostly marketing.
Beauty and Grooming Explainer
The first federal count of PFAS in US cosmetics landed in December 2025: 51 ingredients, 1,744 formulations and incomplete data on most of them. Three states had already banned them.
Beauty and Grooming Buyer’s Brief
One-step hair dryer brushes are cheap, everywhere and covered by a federal rule most shoppers have never heard of. Ten recalls in 20 months…
Beauty and Grooming Price Trail
The toiletry aisle was the quiet corner of the cart through 2025. In 2026 it caught up: products inflation nearly tripled while volumes fell…
Beauty and Grooming Market Shift
A single EU entry removed the most common gel polish photoinitiator across Europe with no sell-through period. US shelves have no equivalent rule, and…
Beauty and Grooming Trend Report
Whole body deodorant is the newest segment in a 100-year-old aisle, and it costs 45% more per unit. What the household and category data…
Beauty and Grooming Trend Report
Hair serums were the standout in US prestige beauty in the first half of 2026. What the sales data shows, why hair care is…
Beauty and Grooming Price Trail
BLS data shows haircut and personal care service prices beating overall inflation for two straight years while grooming products rose more slowly. What that…
Beauty and Grooming Trend Report
Korean beauty exports to the US hit records in 2025 and early 2026 while Target, Ulta and Sephora expanded K-beauty shelves. What is driving…
Beauty and Grooming Buyer’s Brief
Prestige fragrance got more expensive in 2026 while unit sales stalled, and mass fragrance grew 15%. What the price data shows and how to…
Beauty and Grooming Market Shift
The FDA added bemotrizinol to the US sunscreen rulebook in June 2026 and the first product went on sale August 31. What changed, what…
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