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The 2025 Top 100 Beauty Companies

From generative AI to geopolitical tensions, the seismic shifts that are roiling the world are also having a significant impact on beauty.

The result: Another challenging year for many of beauty’s biggest players, as evidenced by the results of the 2025 Beauty Inc Top 100, our annual ranking of the world’s largest beauty manufacturers by sales.

In the five years of turbulence since the COVID-19 pandemic, the market landscape has shifted significantly, and the ongoing headwinds saw many companies take a closer look at their operations as they seek to press reset.

And no wonder. During 2025, skin care struggled for many. Much of the mass market was in the doldrums, and growth in fragrance slowed for all but a handful of players. Total sales for all 100 companies in our ranking reached $258.99 billion, up 2.7% year-over-year. There were pockets of strong growth, but by and large, the market was lackluster at best.

Among the Top 20 players in this year’s Top 100, only two — Puig and Amorepacific — saw growth surpass the midsingle digits. Eleven of the 20 leading companies saw their sales decline.

L’Oréal, with 1.3% reported sales growth, accounted for 19.2% of total sales, its share of the Top 100 gaining 0.5 percentage points year-over-year. The top 10 companies overall generated sales of $151.65 billion, or 58.6% of total Top 100 revenues, inching up 0.1 percentage point year-over-year.

Once again, the vast majority of companies — 74% — saw their sales increase, with 29% seeing double-digit gains. Of the 21% of companies with declining sales, only two, LG H&H and Nu Skin Enterprises, were down in the double digits, however, compared with 10% of companies in 2024.

Currency fluctuations weighed on players in Europe and Japan when their sales were translated into dollars, despite some seeing quite significant sales growth in their reporting currency for the year.

Four brands surpassed the billion-dollar sales threshold for the first time: Dolce & Gabbana Beauty, Naos, Chicmax and Neora.

In fact, the Texas-based Neora was among the Top 100’s biggest climbers for the year, rising 15 places to 35 and bucking the trend among direct sales players, many of which have struggled to modernize their business models as consumers have shifted online. Amway, Nu Skin and Oriflame were all among the year’s biggest decliners, dropping eight, 12 and 11 places respectively. Chicmax, meanwhile, was up 11 spots to number 38 this year, one of the biggest gainers on China’s shifting beauty landscape.

This year’s newcomers include Giant Biogene, also from China, which enters the Top 100 at number 58 thanks to its skin care products based on recombinant collagen, notably under the Comfy brand. Also new to the ranking are South Korea’s APR Co. and The Founders Inc., which have both seen massive international growth over the past year; Australia’s DBG Health, which snapped up fast-growing dupe brand Model Co., and U.S.-based Bansk Group, the owner of buzzy hair care brand Amika, which acquired a majority stake in skin care label Byoma during the year.

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