Europe - Germany: Sun Care Market Report 2017

By Jo Allen | Published: 18-Apr-2017
Sun Care

The biggest trend in Germany’s sun care market is high SPFs, but brands are pushing products further by delivering new benefits

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Germany’s sun care market may have shone the brighest in Europe in 2015, with value growth rocketing by more than 12%, but it had a much cloudier spell in 2016.

Europe - Germany: Sun Care Market Report 2017

According to the World Meteorological Organization, the start of the summer was dominated by repeated thunderstorms and copious amounts of rain throughout June and July, and while it did experience a heatwave, this was not until the end of August.

Sales of sun care products reflected the weather, and figures from IRI Germany for 2016 reveal that

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