Some Gray Skies for Women’s At-Home Hair Color

L’Oréal dominates the US at-home hair color segment. But category sales have dimmed in the past year. Sales of women’s

hair colorants dropped 7.8% to approximateley $1.3 billion for the 52 weeks ended Jan. 23, 2022, according to IRI OmniMarket data.

Results below are for the multi-outlet (grocery, drug, mass market, military and select club and dollar retailers).

Product

Dollar Sales

Dollar Share
of SubCategory

Unit Sales

Price per Unit

Current

% Change vs YA

Current

Change vs YA

Current

% Change vs YA

Current

Change vs YA

Women’s Hair Coloring

$1,305,642,460

-7.8%

100.00

0.00

179,582,901

-11.5%

$7.27

$0.29

L’Oréal

$544,689,875

-8.7%

41.72

-0.40

56,419,082

-14.1%

$9.65

$0.58

Garnier

$209,953,992

-5.6%

16.08

0.38

26,328,436

-14.0%

$7.97

$0.71

Clairol

$203,155,023

-6.1%

15.56

0.28

27,363,194

-5.7%

$7.42

-$0.03

Revlon

$151,673,874

-16.4%

11.62

-1.20

45,477,020

-13.6%

$3.34

-$0.11

Schwarzkopf

$95,993,429

3.2%

7.35

0.79

9,590,968

3.9%

$10.01

-$0.06

Splat

$25,385,299

0.4%

1.94

0.16

2,582,960

-1.2%

$9.83

$0.15

Soft Sheen Carson

$12,306,725

-12.2%

0.94

-0.05

2,276,535

-11.9%

$5.41

-$0.02

Everpro

$10,177,305

-19.1%

0.78

-0.11

1,075,970

-17.4%

$9.46

-$0.20

John Frieda

$9,731,126

-0.7%

0.75

0.05

848,108

1.2%

$11.47

-$0.21

Kristin Ess

$6,468,562

-16.7%

0.50

-0.05

471,506

-16.6%

$13.72

-$0.01

Source: IRI OmniMarket™ Total Store View