The Pulse of the Consumer: UK Personal Care and Beauty Survey 2026​

UK Shoppers’ Purchase Habits, Shopping Behavior, and Advertising Perceptions​

Download
Share
About This Report
In our second-annual Pulse of the Consumer: UK Personal Care and Beauty Survey, shoppers share how dupes, social media, and AI are shaping product discovery.​
Table of Contents

Our second-annual Pulse of the Consumer: Personal Care and Beauty Survey explores how UK shoppers discover, research, and buy products across the category. The data maps behaviors along the path to purchase, including the growing role of social media and AI in product exploration, and the factors influencing purchases online and in stores.​​

This deck covers:​

  • Our sales forecast for personal care and beauty, by channel ​
  • Purchase habits, including preferred channels and stores​
  • How shoppers discover and research personal care and beauty products ​
  • How shoppers respond to different types of personal care and beauty ads​

authors

Carina Lamb

Contributors

Sky Canaves
Principal Analyst
Suzy Davidkhanian
VP, Content
Nikolai Dineros
Copy Editor
Na Li
Director, Primary Research
Wendy Malloy
Director, Reports Editor
Jennifer Pearson
VP, Research
Sakina Thanawala
Copy Editor
Emman Velasco
Data Visualization Editor
Jherr Daven Velasco
Data Visualization Editor
Unlock Unlimited Insights with PRO+