Trends · data through July 2026

Health & Beauty trends in the United Kingdom

Iceflower tracks 12,670 stores from 6,634 health & beauty chains in the United Kingdom. Kamsons Pharmacy grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Sunglass Hut and Kiko Milano.

Rankings come from real card and bank transactions across a panel of 130M+ US and EU consumers. We publish relative growth and rankings, never revenue figures. About the data

Tracked chains
6,634
Tracked stores
12,670
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked health & beauty chains

Ranked by year-over-year growth of share of tracked local spend. Arrows show movement in the rankings since last year. Each dot in the chart is one tracked chain: bigger market position to the right, faster growth higher up, more tracked stores in a bigger dot. Colors match the store map below. Kamsons Pharmacy and Sunglass Hut sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 K Kamsons Pharmacy ▲10 +19.0%
2 S Sunglass Hut logo Sunglass Hut ▲1 +18.3%
3 K Kiko Milano logo Kiko Milano ▲7 +14.2%
4 E Ego ▲6 +12.5%
5 A Allied Pharmacy ▲1 +11.7%
6 B Blue Banana ▲6 +11.4%
7 B Beauty Base ▲1 +10.9%
8 P PDSA ▲4 +9.5%
9 F Flip Out ▲5 +9.1%
10 K Kwik Tan ▲4 +6.3%
11 S Saks Hair & Beauty ▲1 +5.2%
12 S Specsavers - +3.5%
13 C Cohens Chemist ▲2 +2.4%
14 L Lextan ▲1 +2.3%
15 A Animal Trust ▲3 +2.0%

Store footprint

Store map

12,670 tracked store locations in the United Kingdom, colored by category.

Top tracked chains by store count

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