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The Beauty Brand Benchmark — Unit Economics

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The Beauty Brand Benchmark — Unit Economics

Real DTC and Amazon unit economics for beauty brands: CAC, repeat rate, contribution-profit LTV, and LTV:CAC, benchmarked at the lower quartile, median, and upper quartile by channel, sub-vertical, and revenue band.

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// Questions this report answers

The questions beauty operators actually ask

Does my 12-month LTV justify a higher CAC?

What CAC or ROAS do I actually need to be sustainable?

Is Amazon better than Shopify once fees are in?

Where's my 180-day contribution-profit LTV vs. peers?

Where do we stand on CAC and LTV against real beauty brand benchmarks?

The report answers all five, with benchmarks pulled from real beauty brand P&Ls. Get the free report →

// Metrics included

What's inside

Every metric covered in this report.

Unit Economics

01

Blended CAC and fully-loaded CAC

Customer acquisition cost, by channel (DTC, Amazon).

02

Cumulative repeat-purchase rate

Share of customers who reorder by day 30/60/90/180/360.

03

Contribution-profit LTV

Cumulative contribution profit per customer at each horizon.

04

LTV:CAC

Contribution-profit LTV relative to acquisition cost, with the 1.0× payback line.

05

Contribution-profit LTV net of CAC

What each customer is worth once acquisition cost is paid back.

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