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Leading Skincare & Cosmetics Brands in AI Search

The same monthly sample, re-ranked using only Perplexity answers.

October 2026 edition

Across the six months through October 2026, CeraVe leads AI search visibility in Skincare & Cosmetics on Perplexity with a Goodie visibility score of 83.4, ahead of Rare Beauty (81.9) and SkinCeuticals (81.8). The median score across the 15 ranked brands is 81.2, and a score above 80.7 reaches the top ten. The most-cited source grounding these answers is vogue.fr at 10.1% of all citations, while brand-owned pages account for just 11.1%.

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

Industry Benchmarks

October 2026 · Skincare & Cosmetics · Perplexity
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Median visibility score
81.2
Half of the 15 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
80.7
Clearing 80.7 puts a brand in the category top ten. The bar sits 0.5 points below the midpoint, so the leaderboard is closely contested.
Brands named per answer
10.5
A typical answer names ten brands, so the consideration set is wide and a mention is comparatively easy to earn.
Citation mix
  • UGC 2%
  • Editorial 1%
  • Video 1%
  • Reference 4%
  • Other 92%
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
11.1%
Owned content is weak here: third-party sources decide most of these answers.
Index-wide average is 26.8%
Industry sentiment
49/100
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
15 ranked here · 713 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
01CeraVe
83.4
6.9%Perplexity—548/13youtube.com
02Rare Beauty
81.9
6.7%Perplexity▲ 2.2617/13rivaliq.com
03SkinCeuticals
81.8
6.7%Perplexity▼ 12.9565/13whowhatwear.com
04La Roche-Posay
81.8
6.7%Perplexity▼ 8.7548/13youtube.com
05Fenty Beauty
81.6
6.7%Perplexity▼ 10.5436/13rivaliq.com
06The Ordinary
81.5
6.7%Perplexity▼ 12.8435/13youtube.com
07Dior Beauty
81.2
6.7%Perplexity▼ 11.04811/13whowhatwear.com
08Redken
81.2
6.7%Perplexity▼ 10.94510/13reddit.com
09K7L Cosmetics
80.9
6.6%Perplexity▼ 7.7446/13cosmeticsbusiness.com
10Huda Beauty
80.7
6.6%Perplexity▼ 7.1416/13rivaliq.com
15 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
01vogue.fr
10.1%
—
02gloora.it
6.7%
—
03lefigaro.fr
5.9%
—
04sina.com.cn
5.9%
—
05marieclaire.fr
5.5%
—
06elle.com
5.1%
—
07taobao.com
5.0%
—
08hpplus.jp
5.0%
—
09youtube.com
4.8%
—
10realsimple.com
4.7%
—
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
01Which cosmetic brands are dermatologist approved?4951
02Skincare brands people see real results from3339
03Luxury makeup brands professionals recommend4538
04Haircare brands trusted by salons3333
05Beauty brands popular on social media5132
5 of 35k sampledDistinct brands named & sources cited

Biggest movers

Oct vs Sep
Rising
Rare Beautyscore 81.9
▲ 2.2
Falling
Olaplexscore 80.4
▼ 15.1
SkinCeuticalsscore 81.8
▼ 12.9
The Ordinaryscore 81.5
▼ 12.8
13 ranked brands scored in both Sep and OctIndustry avg ±10.1/mo

Global Search Demand

Where this industry's questions originate
104,353 searches sampled
Tracked markets for Skincare & Cosmetics, by sampled search volume
#CountrySearch volume
01United States61K
02United Kingdom19K
03Japan7K
04Germany4K
05Australia3K
06Italy3K
07Egypt2K
08France2K
09Canada1K
10United Arab Emirates1K
11Singapore345
12Saudi Arabia345
12 tracked markets
This edition

What Changed This Month

CeraVe leads Skincare & Cosmetics this edition with a visibility score of 83.4, ahead of Rare Beauty at 81.9.

vogue.fr is the most-cited source grounding skincare & cosmetics answers, at roughly 10.1% of citations. Brand-owned pages account for 11.1% — the rest of the answer supply chain runs through third-party sources.

The median visibility score across ranked skincare & cosmetics brands is 81.2, and a score above 80.7 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

Each tracked industry has a fixed set of prompts modelled on how people actually ask about it, so one month can be compared directly with the next.

Global Model Interrogation

We run each industry's prompts across the tracked models in each 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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FAQ · Skincare & Cosmetics

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CeraVe currently leads AI search visibility in skincare & cosmetics with a Goodie visibility score of 83.4, measured across the tracked AI models.

vogue.fr is the most-cited source in skincare & cosmetics AI answers, grounding roughly 10.1% of citations in this industry.

The median score among ranked skincare & cosmetics brands is 81.2. A score above 80.7 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.