Market intelligence
K-Beauty Market Report — 2026-09-17
Our guides and picks are cosmetic curation for education only — not medical advice. Skin varies person to person: patch-test new products and see a dermatologist for persistent or concerning issues.
Generated 2026-09-17T11:32:13.839Z · tool v1.0.0 · sources: Google Trends RSS, Reddit public feeds, TikTok Creative Center, static watchlist · no paid APIs · no Amazon requests
1. Top Trending Ingredients
Markets queried: 12/12 answered · items seen: 120 · skincare-matching trends: 0
No skincare-specific trend in today's feed. Google Trends' daily RSS is news- and sports-driven; skin-related queries simply did not surface in this window. No data is inferred or fabricated — the filter runs on real feed items only.
Monitored lexicon: 127 skin-related terms and brands · endpoint health: retired keyword endpoint skipped (HTTP 404).
2. Community Pulse
Posts analysed today: 0 · ranked: 0
| Subreddit | Transport | Entries | State | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SkincareAddiction | none | 0 | failed | JSON: HTTP 403; Atom: tool UA: HTTP 403; browser UA: HTTP 429 |
| KoreanBeauty | none | 0 | failed | JSON: HTTP 403; Atom: tool UA: HTTP 403; browser UA: HTTP 429 |
Community source unavailable today. Both the public JSON and the Atom fallback returned nothing usable; no community section data is reported rather than replaced with filler.
3. Social Signals
Source: static fallback list — the Creative Center ranking endpoints are gated (see probe log below). The list is curated in src/lib/lexicon.mjs and should be refreshed quarterly.
| # | Hashtag | Category | Buyer intent |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | #skincare | Category | Discovery / broad |
| 2 | #skincaretips | Education | Advice-seeking |
| 3 | #koreanskincare | K-Beauty | Routine discovery |
| 4 | #glassskin | K-Beauty | Aspirational finish |
| 5 | #skincareroutine | Education | Routine building |
| 6 | #retinol | Ingredient | Active research |
| 7 | #niacinamide | Ingredient | Active research |
| 8 | #sunscreen | Product | Daily SPF |
| 9 | #slugging | Trend | Barrier repair |
| 10 | #skincycling | Trend | Active scheduling |
Endpoint probe log
| Endpoint | Verdict |
|---|---|
| Creative Center hashtag list | HTTP 404 |
| Creative Radar hashtag ranking | gated — {"code":40101,"msg":"no permission"} |
4. Competitor Watchlist
Tracked ASINs: 6 · live metrics: TODO (PA-API) · Amazon requests made by this tool: 0
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| ASIN | Listing | Price | Rating | BSR | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| B08CMS8P67 | B08CMS8P67 | TODO (PA-API) | TODO (PA-API) | TODO (PA-API) | pending PA-API credentials |
| B07ZKHPV9Y | B07ZKHPV9Y | TODO (PA-API) | TODO (PA-API) | TODO (PA-API) | pending PA-API credentials |
| B00PBX3L7K | B00PBX3L7K | TODO (PA-API) | TODO (PA-API) | TODO (PA-API) | pending PA-API credentials |
| B09DLFCB69 | B09DLFCB69 | TODO (PA-API) | TODO (PA-API) | TODO (PA-API) | pending PA-API credentials |
| B08CMVXQ9W | B08CMVXQ9W | TODO (PA-API) | TODO (PA-API) | TODO (PA-API) | pending PA-API credentials |
| B0B7XFYR23 | B0B7XFYR23 | TODO (PA-API) | TODO (PA-API) | TODO (PA-API) | pending PA-API credentials |
Why the columns are empty: Amazon presented an IP throttle after earlier scraping, so v1 makes no Amazon requests at all. Price, rating and BSR will be populated through the official Product Advertising API (PA-API) in a later version — the ASINs above are pre-wired for that switch.
5. Auto-Summary
- Source health: 3/4 sources produced data · degraded (documented fallback): TikTok Creative Center · failed: Reddit community (SkincareAddiction + KoreanBeauty)
- Trend mover: none. 12/12 Google Trends markets answered (120 items scanned) but no skin-related query surfaced — a dry day for this feed, reported as-is.
- Community pulse: no community data today — both the public JSON and the Atom fallback returned nothing usable.
- Biggest mover vs 2026-09-16: up — nothing rose; down — Benzoyl Peroxide -1 (now 0).
- Next action: watchlist holds 6 ASINs with price/rating/BSR still TODO (PA-API); while those wait, prioritise content around sunscreen, the strongest demand signal available today (social source: static-fallback).
Source status
| Source | State | Detail | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|
| Google Trends RSS | ok | 12/12 markets answered · 120 items · 0 skin matches | 1978 ms |
| Reddit community (SkincareAddiction + KoreanBeauty) | failed | no posts retrievable from JSON or Atom | 34440 ms |
| TikTok Creative Center | partial | curated static fallback (endpoint gated) | 909 ms |
| Competitor watchlist (static) | ok | 6 ASINs listed · 0 Amazon requests by design | 0 ms |
Methodology & caveats
- Trends: Google Trends publishes no global feed and no per-keyword RSS, so "worldwide" is 12 markets queried individually and aggregated; a term ranking in more markets ranks higher. The retired keyword endpoint is probed once and skipped on 404.
- Community: the public JSON endpoint is currently blocked (HTTP 403 for non-browser clients); the Atom feed is the documented fallback, Score shows engagement (upvotes + comments) where Reddit shares both counts; "—" means Reddit shared no counts for that row.
- Social: TikTok Creative Center hashtag rankings are gated behind an authenticated session, so the curated list in
src/lib/lexicon.mjsis used and the probe verdicts are printed as evidence. - Watchlist: price/rating/BSR stay
TODO (PA-API); this tool never contacts Amazon. - Summary: rule-based only — five lines, each derived from the values above, never generated prose.
Next report: 2026-09-17 + 1 day at 06:00 UTC via GitHub Actions.