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Leading Skincare & Cosmetics Brands in AI Search

Benchmarks, the brands AI recommends, and the sources grounding those answers across 4 AI models.

October 2026 edition

Across the six months through October 2026, Dior Beauty leads AI search visibility in Skincare & Cosmetics with a Goodie visibility score of 65.2, ahead of CeraVe (48.8) and Rare Beauty (47.2). The median score across the 28 ranked brands is 27.0, and a score above 35.6 reaches the top ten. The most-cited source grounding these answers is jumia.com.eg at 12.2% of all citations, while brand-owned pages account for just 10.3%.

35k prompts · 2.5m AI answers · 11.3m citations · Goodie AI Visibility Index

Industry Benchmarks

October 2026 · Skincare & Cosmetics
What good looks like in this category. Read a brand's own score against these before looking at who is winning.
Median visibility score
27.0
Half of the 28 ranked skincare & cosmetics brands score below this. The midpoint, not the average, so a few dominant brands do not distort it.
Score to enter the top 10
35.6
Clearing 35.6 puts a brand in the category top ten. The bar sits 8.5 points above the midpoint, so the leaderboard is tightly held.
Brands named per answer
10.6
A typical answer names eleven brands, so the consideration set is wide and a mention is comparatively easy to earn.
Citation mix
  • UGC 1%
  • Editorial 1%
  • Reference 3%
  • Retail 0%
  • Other 95%
Other leads the third-party sources grounding skincare & cosmetics answers. Brand-owned citations sit in the next cell and are not counted here. “Other” covers domains we have not classified into a type yet.
Brand-owned citation share
10.3%
Owned content is weak here: third-party sources decide most of these answers.
Index-wide average is 26.8%
Industry sentiment
61/100
Mean tone of mentions across the ranked brands that carry a measured value. Per-brand sentiment sits on each brand profile.
Prompts sampled
35k
Real buyer phrasing, 4 models
AI answers analysed
2.5m
293k in October · ▲ 20.1% vs September
Citations parsed
11.3m
1m in October · ▲ 16.6% vs September
Brands observed
728
28 ranked here · 700 unranked

Brand Visibility Leaderboard

Brand visibility leaderboard for Skincare & Cosmetics, ranked by six-month average AI visibility score
#BrandVisibility scoreShare of voiceModelsΔ vs last monthSentimentMarketsTop cited source
01Dior Beauty
65.2
7.5%AI ModeChatGPTCopilotPerplexity▼ 2.06113/13whowhatwear.com
02CeraVe
48.8
5.6%AI ModeChatGPTCopilotPerplexity·6612/13youtube.com
03Rare Beauty
47.2
5.4%AI ModeChatGPTCopilotPerplexity▲ 1.16713/13cosmeticsbusiness.com
04Redken
45.9
5.3%AI ModeChatGPTCopilotPerplexity▼ 1.95713/13reddit.com
05Kérastase
43.5
5.0%AI ModeChatGPTCopilotPerplexity▼ 1.16113/13reddit.com
06La Roche-Posay
43.5
5.0%AI ModeChatGPTCopilotPerplexity▼ 0.46513/13youtube.com
07Huda Beauty
39.3
4.5%AI ModeChatGPTCopilotPerplexity▼ 1.06713/13cosmeticsbusiness.com
08Fenty Beauty
39.1
4.5%AI ModeChatGPTCopilotPerplexity▼ 0.36111/13cosmeticsbusiness.com
09SkinCeuticals
36.4
4.2%AI ModeCopilotPerplexity▼ 1.06711/13whowhatwear.com
10Olaplex
35.6
4.1%AI ModeChatGPTCopilotPerplexity▼ 2.56311/13reddit.com
28 ranked · visibility is a six-month average · worldwide ranking requires presence in at least 5 of 13 marketsTop source = most frequent source in answers mentioning the brand · Δ compares Oct with Sep

Most-Cited Domains

The answer supply chain
Most-cited domains in AI answers for Skincare & Cosmetics
#DomainCitation shareΔ vs last month
01jumia.com.eg
12.2%
▲ 16.3
02vogue.fr
10.1%
—
03google.com
7.3%
—
04gloora.it
6.7%
—
05instagram.com
6.4%
—
06lefigaro.fr
5.9%
—
07sina.com.cn
5.9%
—
08easycosmetic.de
5.0%
—
09treatwell.it
5.0%
—
10morningconsult.com
5.0%
—
Top 10 of 1k domains observedΔ compares Oct with Sep, in percentage points

Prompts, Topics & Movers

What's driving this month's answers

Sampled prompts

Prompts sampled for Skincare & Cosmetics, with distinct brands named and sources cited
#PromptBrandsSources
01Haircare brands trusted by salons87240
02Which cosmetic brands are dermatologist approved?115211
03Skincare brands people see real results from88181
04Beauty brands popular on social media164173
05Luxury makeup brands professionals recommend95154
5 of 35k sampledDistinct brands named & sources cited

Biggest movers

Oct vs Sep
Rising
▲ 1.5
Paula's Choicescore 18.0
▲ 1.5
Cetaphilscore 19.6
▲ 1.1
Falling
Olaplexscore 35.6
▼ 2.5
Dior Beautyscore 65.2
▼ 2.0
Redkenscore 45.9
▼ 1.9
27 ranked brands scored in both Sep and OctIndustry avg ±1.1/mo

Global Search Demand

Where this industry's questions originate
6,172,950 searches sampled
Tracked markets for Skincare & Cosmetics, by sampled search volume
#CountrySearch volume
01United States2.6M
02United Kingdom978K
03France487K
04Japan470K
05Germany347K
06Australia339K
07Italy282K
08Egypt244K
09Canada216K
10United Arab Emirates122K
11Saudi Arabia36K
12Singapore36K
12 tracked markets

How the Models Differ

Same industry, 4 verdicts
AI Mode
0 of 0 brands visible
01 La Roche-Posay75.1
02 Charlotte Tilbury74.8
03 SkinCeuticals74.7
04 Huda Beauty74.7
05 Medik874.3
ChatGPT
0 of 0 brands visible
01 CeraVe70.5
02 K7L Cosmetics70.5
03 Giorgio Armani Beauty70.5
04 La Roche-Posay70.4
05 Cetaphil70.0
Copilot
0 of 0 brands visible
01 Redken76.5
02 L'Oréal Paris76.0
03 Wella Professionals75.1
04 YSL Beauty75.0
05 Dior Beauty74.9
Perplexity
0 of 0 brands visible
01 SkinCeuticals82.3
02 Glossier81.8
03 Giorgio Armani Beauty81.0
04 Dior Beauty81.0
05 Neutrogena80.9
This edition

What Changed This Month

Dior Beauty leads Skincare & Cosmetics this edition with a visibility score of 65.2, ahead of CeraVe at 48.8.

jumia.com.eg is the most-cited source grounding skincare & cosmetics answers, at roughly 12.2% of citations. Brand-owned pages account for 10.3% — the rest of the answer supply chain runs through third-party sources.

The median visibility score across ranked skincare & cosmetics brands is 27.0, and a score above 35.6 reaches the industry top ten.

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Our Methodology

Our Approach to Gathering AI Visibility Data

We process millions of real prompts across AI Mode, ChatGPT, Copilot and Perplexity, then track which brands, products, and domains show up in the answers. That's the raw data behind every score in the Index.

Real Intent Capture

This data results from processing millions of real user prompts. We use advanced semantic and agentic processing to categorize them and define intent, filtering out noise to focus on high-value queries.

Global Model Interrogation

We run these prompts across the tracked models and across every market we cover, so each market is scored on its own answers rather than on a global average applied everywhere.

Attribution Mapping

We analyze the generated answers to capture the "Kingmaker" domains: the specific sources models cite most often in the answers that name a brand, so you can see which sources the models lean on where you appear and where you do not.

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Dior Beauty currently leads AI search visibility in skincare & cosmetics with a Goodie visibility score of 65.2, measured across the tracked AI models.

jumia.com.eg is the most-cited source in skincare & cosmetics AI answers, grounding roughly 12.2% of citations in this industry.

The median score among ranked skincare & cosmetics brands is 27.0. A score above 35.6 places a brand in the industry top ten.

Each edition samples the same tracked prompt set across the models Goodie follows, then ranks brands by how often they are named in those answers.

Monthly. Each edition re-samples the tracked prompt set so month-over-month figures are directly comparable.