United Kingdom Professional Hair Care Market Players Benefitting by Higher Instances of FPHL

As per the market outlook foreseen by a recent IndustryARC business intelligence report, the U.K professional hair care market is uplifting from contemporary hair care products such as coloring, straightening, styling gel, serum, shampoo and hair spray and expanding its revenue pocket size by providing hair care treatments such as steroid injection, steroid creams, immunotherapy, light treatment, tattooing, hair transplant, scalp reduction surgery and artificial hair transplant. The demand is now catered to by day spas and professional salons rather than friendly neighborhood barbershops. These untapped avenues have immense scope for diverting traffic from parent haircare market towards its own domain of cosmetology. The report is titled “United Kingdom Professional Hair Care Market: By Product (coloring, perming & straightening, styling gel, serum, shampoo & conditioning, hair spray); By End use (bridal, salons) By Region - Forecast (2018-2023).”

According to the National Health Service, England, 50% of women above the age of 65 experience androgenetic alopecia or female pattern hair loss (FPHL) and the news is not good either for English men because Men’s Health Forum indicates that 7.4 million men are losing their hair at any one time. The United Kingdom professional hair care market is elevating itself from being a women-centric domain and spreading its firm grip over the dominant and higher income-disposing male population as well, owing to the male pattern balding genetic circumstance in some countries and Britain is one of them.

Statistics from the Office for National Statistics, U.K., stated in the last census analysis that around 3 million population of UK constitute of African and Caribbean natives. 53% of such population are female and currently not the targeted customers for any hair care market giants. Owing to such aspects the market is waking up to the huge demand from native women. This unexploited customer base is witnessing influx of investments owing to the surfacing demands stroking the U.K professional hair care market. A classic example is a developing brand ‘Afrocenchix’ which managed to bag few healthy investment at the We Work’s Creators Awards, 2019.

Permanent coloring currently a fruitful segment, primarily owing to the aging population. Major constituents of such products are synthetic chemicals with adverse effects on hair follicle, hair root, root sheath and sebaceous gland. Owing to such peculiarities, a huge chunk of traffic is diverting towards organic hair care products with constituents such as argon, olive oils, carrot almond oil, sea buckthorn oil and seed oil. The sheer affluence of organic commodities in the beauty industry can be indicated by the fact that at the most prestigious WWD Beauty Summit, major market companies stated that around 70% of customers are opting for natural personal care products. This diversion which is a challenge for the mainstream players can be very well capitalized by the ethnic participants.

Association of beauty with wellness has always been a major driver for personal care products and hair care couldn’t be an exception. The sheer exposure of individuals towards glamour and beauty by mass media and effective branding and advertising creating aesthetic importance have been supplementing the hair care market. The extension of ‘point of contact’ with customers from retail shops, salons and spas to e-commerce websites have further stretched the U.K professional hair care market. Nearly 45 million of UK population are located in urban areas and have witnessed a noticeable surge in their disposable income which is again supplementing the hair care market.

Professional Hair Care Market: By Types (Hair Coloring, Hair Styling, Hair Straightening & Perming, Shampoos and Conditioners) & Geography - Forecast (2018-2023)