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Leading Skincare & Cosmetics Brands in AI Search in Germany

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

October 2026 edition

Across the six months through October 2026, The Ordinary leads AI search visibility in Skincare & Cosmetics on Perplexity in Germany with a Goodie visibility score of 87.0, ahead of Dior Beauty (85.7) and Giorgio Armani Beauty (84.0). The median score across the 10 ranked brands is 82.0, and a score above 79.8 reaches the top ten. The most-cited source grounding these answers is realsimple.com at 5.9% of all citations, while brand-owned pages account for just 10.8%.

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

Industry Benchmarks

October 2026 · Skincare & Cosmetics · Perplexity
What good looks like in this category. Read a brand's own score against these before looking at who is winning.
Median visibility score
82.0
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 76.3
Score to enter the top 10
79.8
Clearing 79.8 puts a brand in the category top ten. The bar sits 2.2 points below the midpoint, so the leaderboard is closely contested.
Brands named per answer
9.9
A typical answer names ten brands, so the consideration set is wide and a mention is comparatively easy to earn.
Index-wide average is 6.6
Citation mix
  • UGC 3%
  • Editorial 1%
  • Video 4%
  • Reference 3%
  • Other 89%
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
10.8%
Owned content is weak here: third-party sources decide most of these answers.
Index-wide average is 26.8%
Industry sentiment
42/100
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
01The Ordinary
87.0
10.5%Perplexity—40youtube.com
02Dior Beauty
85.7
10.3%Perplexity—41whowhatwear.com
03Giorgio Armani Beauty
84.0
10.1%Perplexity—38whowhatwear.com
04Huda Beauty
84.0
10.1%Perplexity—30artworkflowhq.com
05Tom Ford Beauty
82.0
9.9%Perplexity▼ 21.324whowhatwear.com
06SkinCeuticals
81.9
9.9%Perplexity—62youtube.com
07Redken
81.6
9.9%Perplexity▼ 14.956reddit.com
08Charlotte Tilbury
81.1
9.8%Perplexity▼ 17.031whowhatwear.com
09Kérastase
81.0
9.8%Perplexity▼ 18.348reddit.com
10Olaplex
79.8
9.6%Perplexity—55reddit.com
10 ranked · visibility is a six-month averageTop 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
01realsimple.com
5.9%
—
02youtube.com
5.6%
—
03whowhatwear.com
4.5%
▲ 4.8
04rivaliq.com
3.7%
—
05allure.com
3.4%
—
06byrdie.com
3.4%
—
07rtl.de
3.4%
—
08makeupbrands.org
3.2%
▲ 1.3
09instyle.com
3.0%
—
10apple.com
2.9%
—
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?5446
02Skincare brands people see real results from3039
03Haircare brands trusted by salons3034
04Luxury makeup brands professionals recommend3433
05Welches Luxus-Make-up empfehlen Visagisten wirklich?1012
5 of 35k sampledDistinct brands named & sources cited

Biggest movers

Oct vs Sep
Rising

No rising brands this month.

Falling
Tom Ford Beautyscore 82.0
▼ 21.3
Kérastasescore 81.0
▼ 18.3
▼ 17.0
4 ranked brands scored in both Sep and OctIndustry avg ±17.9/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

The Ordinary leads Skincare & Cosmetics this edition with a visibility score of 87.0, ahead of Dior Beauty at 85.7.

realsimple.com is the most-cited source grounding skincare & cosmetics answers, at roughly 5.9% of citations. Brand-owned pages account for 10.8% — the rest of the answer supply chain runs through third-party sources.

The median visibility score across ranked skincare & cosmetics brands is 82.0, and a score above 79.8 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.

The Ordinary currently leads AI search visibility in skincare & cosmetics with a Goodie visibility score of 87.0, measured across the tracked AI models.

realsimple.com is the most-cited source in skincare & cosmetics AI answers, grounding roughly 5.9% of citations in this industry.

The median score among ranked skincare & cosmetics brands is 82.0. A score above 79.8 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.