Cosmoprof 2026: Key Trends to Watch

Brands took inspiration from the grocery aisle, with ingredients like mung bean, manuka honey, and matcha making their way into skin and hair care products. These ingredients are driving sales in the market, with facial skin care containing matcha growing +39.4%, and facial skin care containing mung bean growing +10.9%. In hair care, products with manuka honey are topping $52M in sales, and those with prickly pear are generating over $6.8M in sales.¹ 

Busy lives demand multi-functional products to help speed up our routines. In fact, 39% of US Consumers report feeling more time crunched in the last 6 months.² Some of the standouts at Cosmoprof Miami were: sunscreen with complexion-enhancing shimmer, a dual formula concealer, and an all-in-one palette containing blush, highlighter, contour, and eye shadow! These all help to save time, which is important when 33% of global consumers say that the last few years have made them realize “less is more.”³

While we all obsess about our hair and scalp health, brands are introducing nourishing ingredients like peptides, rice water, and proteins to help repair hair and scalp. In the US, we are seeing hair care products with hyaluronic acid have grown +53%, glycolic acid ingredients are up +171%, and peptides are up +19%.⁴