Leading health, beauty, and personal care e-retailers worldwide 2022-2027, by sales

In 2022, Alibaba was the leading online retailer in the health, beauty, and personal care category based on sales. That year, the Chinese e-commerce company was estimated to achieve net sales of approximately 58 billion U.S. dollars. Among other notable e-tailers in that category were Amazon and Pinduoduo.

Alibaba and Amazon lead in sales, Lookfantastic in traffic

Globally, online marketplaces are the primary source of inspiration for the acquisition of beauty products. Alibaba, Amazon, and Pinduoduo lead in terms of e-commerce sales. However, out of all analyzed online marketplaces, Lookfantastic appeared the most when searching for beauty brands online in 2023. Almost one-fifth of search engine results for beauty brands referred to the marketplace. Amazon was the second most commonly appearing marketplace, with around one-tenth of Google search results.

Asia at the forefront of online beauty

Worldwide, China is the leading beauty and personal care e-commerce market. In 2022, the Chinese online beauty care market was worth approximately 10 billion U.S. dollars. The United States followed with a market revenue of around nine billion U.S. dollars. In terms of online traffic, Asia is at the forefront of the fastest-growing online beauty industries. In China, year-on-year (YoY) traffic to beauty and cosmetics sites grew by more than 40 percent in 2022, compared to only four percent traffic growth in the United States. Other Asian nations are also demonstrating notable growth in the online beauty and cosmetics industry, with India and Thailand exhibiting a YoY traffic growth of approximately 17 percent and 15 percent, respectively.