Findrix

Beauty & Personal Care in AI answers,
United States

See which brands AI recommends across beauty & personal care markets, who shows up
across categories, and which sources shape those recommendations.

Markets
5
Top-20 brands
122
AI answers
12,000
AI engines
3

01 · Market landscape

How does AI visibility differ
across Beauty & Personal Care markets?

See which brands lead each Beauty & Personal Care market on ChatGPT and how many brands it ranks.

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#MarketMost named brandLeader’s mention rateBrandsOpen
1Facial SkincareCeraVe51.9%343
2Oral Care ProductsGUM50.2%263
3Makeup & Cosmeticse.l.f.44.4%201
4Sun Care & TanningUlta Beauty32.9%253
5HaircareOlaplex23.6%321

Beauty & Personal Care markets have very different levels of concentration.On ChatGPT, CeraVe appears in 51.9% of facial skincare answers; the lowest-rated leader, Olaplex, in 23.6% of haircare answers.

Source: Findrix research. ChatGPT, 5 Beauty & Personal Care markets. Measured Oct 2026.

02 · Competitive landscape

Which brands show up across Beauty & Personal Care markets?

See which brands make ChatGPT’s top 20 in more than one Beauty & Personal Care market, and where their visibility is strongest.

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#BrandMarkets in top 20Facial SkincareOral Care ProductsMakeup & CosmeticsSun Care & TanningHaircare
1CeraVe2/551.9%Not in top 20Not in top 2017.3%Not in top 20
2La Roche-Posay2/548.8%Not in top 20Not in top 2025.5%Not in top 20
3Neutrogena2/525.4%Not in top 20Not in top 2022.1%Not in top 20
4EltaMD2/510.6%Not in top 20Not in top 2023.3%Not in top 20
5L'Oréal2/5Not in top 20Not in top 2023.0%Not in top 2012.1%
6Colorescience2/55.3%Not in top 20Not in top 2018.3%Not in top 20
7L'Oréal Paris2/5Not in top 20Not in top 2015.4%Not in top 2010.3%
8GUM1/5Not in top 2050.2%Not in top 20Not in top 20Not in top 20
9e.l.f.1/5Not in top 20Not in top 2044.4%Not in top 20Not in top 20
10e.l.f. Cosmetics1/5Not in top 20Not in top 2041.1%Not in top 20Not in top 20

Only a handful of brands travel across Beauty & Personal Care markets.7 of 93 top-20 brands on ChatGPT rank in more than one market; CeraVe ranks in 2 of 5.

Source: Findrix research. ChatGPT, 5 Beauty & Personal Care markets. Measured Oct 2026.

03 · Sources

Who shapes Beauty & Personal Care recommendations?

The domains ChatGPT cites most often across Beauty & Personal Care markets.

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ulta.com is ChatGPT’s most-cited Beauty & Personal Care source.It takes 15.9% of ChatGPT citations; the top 10 domains together take 47.8% of 5,549 cited domains.

Source: Findrix research. ChatGPT, 5,549 cited domains across 5 Beauty & Personal Care markets. Measured Oct 2026.

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Frequently asked questions

What does the Findrix Beauty & Personal Care report measure?

Which brands ChatGPT, Gemini and Google AI Mode name when buyers in the United States ask for beauty & personal care recommendations, and which sites those engines cite. It covers 5 Beauty & Personal Care markets, each measured on its own set of buyer questions in Oct 2026.

Which markets are included in the Beauty & Personal Care dataset?

5 United States markets: makeup & cosmetics, facial skincare, haircare, oral care products and sun care & tanning. Each has its own questions, brands and ranking.

What does “mention rate” mean?

The share of an engine’s answers to a market’s buyer questions that name the brand. Each question is asked once to each engine. Every rate carries a 95% range: when the ranges of two brands overlap, their ranks are not really different.

Why are rates shown for one engine at a time?

Each engine answers a different number of questions with its own sources, so its rates have their own denominator. Adding them up would compare unlike numbers — pick an engine to see its view of every market.

Why is a brand’s cell empty in a market?

The table shows each engine’s published top 20 per market. An empty cell means the brand is not in that top 20 — it may still be named, just less often than the brands above it.

Can I compare mention rates across different markets?

Only with care. Every market has its own question set and its own number of competing brands, so a lower rate in a crowded market can be a stronger position than a higher rate in a concentrated one. Compare brands within a market; across markets, compare places, not rates.

Where do the questions in this dataset come from?

From the way people actually shop each category: recommendation, comparison and problem-first questions, 800 per market. The set is fixed for a measurement, so every brand in a market is judged on the same questions.

How often is the data updated?

Every market is a dated measurement — the Beauty & Personal Care figures on this page were collected in Oct 2026. We re-measure markets and add new ones over time; the date on the page always tells you which run you are looking at.

How can I find my brand in the Beauty & Personal Care report?

Type your full brand name into the search at the top of this page — it is an exact match across every brand in our published top 20s. Not there yet? Start a free trial and we will measure your brand in your own market.