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Leading Skincare & Cosmetics Brands in AI Search in China

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

October 2026 edition

Across the six months through October 2026, Color Wow leads AI search visibility in Skincare & Cosmetics on ChatGPT in China with a Goodie visibility score of 68.1, ahead of CeraVe (68.0) and Paula's Choice (67.5). The median score across the 10 ranked brands is 66.5, and a score above 63.1 reaches the top ten. The most-cited source grounding these answers is aad.org at 14.3% of all citations, while brand-owned pages account for just 7.9%.

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

Industry Benchmarks

October 2026 · Skincare & Cosmetics · ChatGPT
What good looks like in this category. Read a brand's own score against these before looking at who is winning.
Median visibility score
66.5
Half of the 10 ranked skincare & cosmetics brands score below this. The midpoint, not the average, so a few dominant brands do not distort it.
Index-wide median is 69.8
Score to enter the top 10
63.1
Clearing 63.1 puts a brand in the category top ten. The bar sits 3.4 points below the midpoint, so the leaderboard is closely contested.
Brands named per answer
11.6
A typical answer names twelve brands, so the consideration set is wide and a mention is comparatively easy to earn.
Index-wide average is 11.0
Citation mix
  • UGC 3%
  • Editorial 1%
  • Reference 18%
  • Retail 3%
  • Other 75%
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
7.9%
Owned content is weak here: third-party sources decide most of these answers.
Index-wide average is 26.8%
Industry sentiment
62/100
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
10 ranked here · 718 unranked

Brand Visibility Leaderboard

Brand visibility leaderboard for Skincare & Cosmetics, ranked by six-month average AI visibility score
#BrandVisibility scoreShare of voiceModelsΔ vs last monthSentimentTop cited source
01Color Wow
68.1
10.3%ChatGPT—69klinegroup.com
02CeraVe
68.0
10.3%ChatGPT—75whowhatwear.com
03Paula's Choice
67.5
10.2%ChatGPT▼ 5.868pendium.ai
04Redken
67.0
10.2%ChatGPT—70klinegroup.com
05K7L Cosmetics
66.5
10.1%ChatGPT—35playbookofbeauty.com
06Rare Beauty
66.4
10.1%ChatGPT▲ 3.479elpais.com
07MAC
65.9
10.0%ChatGPT—8playbookofbeauty.com
08Estée Lauder
63.6
9.6%ChatGPT—66whowhatwear.com
09L'Oréal Paris
63.2
9.6%ChatGPT—77playbookofbeauty.com
10Huda Beauty
63.1
9.6%ChatGPT▲ 1.477whowhatwear.com
10 ranked · visibility is a six-month averageTop source = most frequent source in answers mentioning the brand · Δ compares Oct with Aug

Most-Cited Domains

The answer supply chain
Most-cited domains in AI answers for Skincare & Cosmetics
#DomainCitation shareΔ vs last month
01aad.org
14.3%
—
02whowhatwear.com
7.3%
▲ 0.2
03allure.com
4.2%
—
04alibaba.com
3.6%
—
05pendium.ai
3.6%
—
06wikipedia.org
3.3%
▼ 3.8
07thedailybeast.com
3.0%
—
08marieclaire.com
2.6%
▼ 0.2
09wearisma.com
2.5%
—
10mirai-skin.com
2.4%
—
Top 10 of 1k domains observedΔ compares Oct with Aug, 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?6247
02Luxury makeup brands professionals recommend5339
03Beauty brands popular on social media5033
04Skincare brands people see real results from2930
05化妆师真的会推荐哪款奢侈彩妆?85
5 of 35k sampledDistinct brands named & sources cited

Biggest movers

Oct vs Aug
Rising
Rare Beautyscore 66.4
▲ 3.4
Huda Beautyscore 63.1
▲ 1.4
Falling
Paula's Choicescore 67.5
▼ 5.8
3 ranked brands scored in both Aug and OctIndustry avg ±3.5/mo

Global Search Demand

Where this industry's questions originate
4,013,975 searches sampled
Tracked markets for Skincare & Cosmetics, by sampled search volume
#CountrySearch volume
01United States1.6M
02United Kingdom684K
03France412K
04Japan234K
05Germany224K
06Australia212K
07Italy177K
08Canada172K
09Egypt153K
10United Arab Emirates80K
11Singapore23K
12Saudi Arabia23K
12 tracked markets
This edition

What Changed This Month

Color Wow leads Skincare & Cosmetics this edition with a visibility score of 68.1, ahead of CeraVe at 68.0.

aad.org is the most-cited source grounding skincare & cosmetics answers, at roughly 14.3% of citations. Brand-owned pages account for 7.9% — the rest of the answer supply chain runs through third-party sources.

The median visibility score across ranked skincare & cosmetics brands is 66.5, and a score above 63.1 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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FAQ · Skincare & Cosmetics

Questions?
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the Answers.

Color Wow currently leads AI search visibility in skincare & cosmetics with a Goodie visibility score of 68.1, measured across the tracked AI models.

aad.org is the most-cited source in skincare & cosmetics AI answers, grounding roughly 14.3% of citations in this industry.

The median score among ranked skincare & cosmetics brands is 66.5. A score above 63.1 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.